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Fayettenam Plays and London Works (Hardcover): Macky Levaughn Myers Fayettenam Plays and London Works (Hardcover)
Macky Levaughn Myers
R693 Discovery Miles 6 930 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Fayettenam Plays and London Works is a collection of six three-act plays and one one-act play with varied settings in London, England; Gallup, New Mexico; Lebanon, Missouri; Cherokee, North Carolina; Greensboro, North Carolina, and the author's place of residence in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The oldest play dates back to the author's college days of yore, and the most recent play contains wet ink as it was hurriedly keyed to meet a publishing deadline. Expect lots of laughs and rising action leading to climaxes of dramatic proportions!

Jokes - Family Jokes, Husband-Wife Jokes, Jokes for Kids, Boss-Employer Jokes, Couple Jokes, Clean Jokes for Everyone... Jokes - Family Jokes, Husband-Wife Jokes, Jokes for Kids, Boss-Employer Jokes, Couple Jokes, Clean Jokes for Everyone (Hardcover)
Joy I Johnson
R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

LAUGH, LAUGH AND LAUGH! New, Updated and Expanded - 2nd Edition As they say, 'Laughter is the best medicine'. And what better way to laugh than by reading jokes! Get this book NOW for some REAL entertainment and fun. Do you want to - - Eliminate stress - Burn calories - Heal yourself - Align your mind, body, soul and spirit - Bring joy to people around and - Most importantly, laugh your heart out! If yes, then this is the book for you. Clean jokes for everyone - high quality and hilarious - this book is a must read! So what are you waiting for? Get your own copy NOW! Also get a Bonus book inside - ABSOLUTELY FREE

Mombies: We're Real (Hardcover): Dominique Clark Mombies: We're Real (Hardcover)
Dominique Clark
R836 Discovery Miles 8 360 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The reality of being a stay at home parent. This was intended as a humorous interpretation but any other mom will agree this is how it goes. This was a typical day in my home.

The Drag Queen Anthology - The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators (Paperback): Lisa... The Drag Queen Anthology - The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators (Paperback)
Lisa Underwood
R2,036 Discovery Miles 20 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examine the cultural and political implications of male-to-female gender performance! The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators examines the phenomena of male-to-female gender performance and the people who live it. This provocative collection of original essays explores the possibilities, limitations, ironies, and controversies surrounding men who perform as women to an audience that knows the truth but celebrates the illusion. The book's contributors call on extensive backgrounds in sociology, anthropology, theater, literatureeven military studiesand use a variety of approaches to address common themes and genres of presentation, performance, and style in a wide range of historical settings and cultures. The Drag Queen Anthology explores female impersonation in the past and present, addressing the often-contradictory cultural impulses found in the performance of femininity. The book examines the important issues of this unique form of gendering, including the cultural and sociopolitical implications of drag, the symbolic cultural ideals associated with women, the impact of the performer's social identities on his performance, and the reactions of the GLBT, straight, and feminist communities to drag. The book looks at traditional drag performance, challenges accepted perceptions about female impersonation, and exposes the notion of the effeminate drag queen as an outdated myth. The Drag Queen Anthology examines the important issues of male-to-female gender performance, including: how drag queen performance is used to attain situational status and power how drag queens challenge contemporary notions of gender what embodiment occurs when men undertake performances of femininity how drag queen performance is viewed as a theatrical presentation of self what representations of drag queens in film suggest about current gender relations why communities organize around drag queen performers how drag queen performance differs on-stage and off how male-to-female gendered performance intersects with performances of sexual identity, social class, race, age, and ethnicity The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators is an indispensable resource on drag's core elements of performance and parody and how each affects contemporary notions of gender.

Understanding Global Media (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Terry Flew Understanding Global Media (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Terry Flew
R3,344 Discovery Miles 33 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This key textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of developments in international communication worldwide. Taking a comparative approach to the major theories of global media, Terry Flew looks at the rise of global media production networks and the emergence of 'media cities', multiculturalism, and the question of a global media culture. This engaging book raises the question of whether we are now in a 'post-global' age, and discusses whether there is a stable global communications order, or instead a stage of increased competition among digital and traditional media, and between the US and emergent powers such as China. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, and written by a renowned author, this is an essential introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies, communication studies and cultural studies, and anyone interested in the study of media and globalization.

Curtain Calls - British and American Women and the Theater, 1660-1820 (Hardcover): Mary A. Schofield, Cecilia Macheski Curtain Calls - British and American Women and the Theater, 1660-1820 (Hardcover)
Mary A. Schofield, Cecilia Macheski
R1,349 Discovery Miles 13 490 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

I here and there o'heard a Coxcomb cry,
Ah, rot--'tis a Woman's Comedy.
Thus Aphra Behn ushers in a new era for women in the British Theatre (Sir Patient Fancy, 1678). In the hundred years that were to follow -- and exactly those years that Curtain Calls examines -- women truly took the theater world by storm.
For each woman who chose a career in the theater world of the eighteenth century, there is a unique tale of struggle, insult, success, good or bad fortune, disaster, seduction, or fame. Whether acting, writing, reviewing, or stage managing, women played a major, if frequently unacknowledged, role in the history of the theater from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries. From Alpha Behn's earliest plays through the glorious celebrity of Sara Siddons, women molded the taste of the age and carved out in the theater one of the few available opportunities for independence and renown.
Not all the women who tried succeeded, of course, and even the best faced opposition as they challenged the male stronghold of playwriting and theater managing. Curtain Calls maps the new territory as these pioneering women staked it for their own; it chronicles their lives, their triumphs, and their losses.
We begin with Aphra Behn, whose first play was staged in 1670, and conclude in the early decades of the nineteenth century with Inchbald and Siddons. The one hundred and fifty years encompassed by their lives contain the careers of dozens of lesser-known women, a network, as Dr. Johnson would have it, encompassing both talent and tribulation.
Contributors include: Edward Langhans, Linda R. Payne, Pat Rogers, Maureen e. Mulvihill, Deborah Payne, Betty Rizzo, Ellen Donkin, Frances M. Kavenik, Jessica Munns, nancy Cotton, Edna L. Steevs, Doreen Saar, Jean B. Kern, Katherine M. Rogers, Constance Clark, William J. Burling, Judith Phillips Stanton, Douglas Butler, Rose Zimbardo, and the editors.

Drag - A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts (Hardcover, New): Roger Baker Drag - A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts (Hardcover, New)
Roger Baker
R2,862 Discovery Miles 28 620 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Men have been dressing as women on stage for hundreds of years, dating back to the thirteenth century when the Church forbade the appearance of female actors but condoned that of men and boys disguised as the opposite sex. Forms of travestism can be traced back to the dawn of theatre and are found in all corners of the world, notably in China and Japan.

In recent years, of course, drag has witnessed a dramatic and widespread revival. Newsday recently observed, People are talking about all those fabulous heterosexual film idols who now can't seem to wait to get tarted up in drag and do their screen bits as fishnet queens. Drawing on a cinematic tradition popularized by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot, Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) and Robin Williams (Mrs. Doubtfire) have each delighted mainstream audiences with their portrayals of women. Even former drag queens have experience newfound fame; witness the recent popularity of the late Divine, renowned for her oddly compelling appearances in underground John Waters films.

Music, too, has been profoundly influenced by drag sensibility, from David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Rocky Horror Picture Show to Boy George and RuPaul (the self- proclaimed Supermodel of the World).

Tracing drag tradition from the Golden Age of stage transvestism during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I in England to the current quasi-drag inclinations of American grunge bands, Drag is an entertaining overview of this popular and complex medium.

Star Wars: Tiny Book of Legendary Women (Hardcover): Insight Editions Star Wars: Tiny Book of Legendary Women (Hardcover)
Insight Editions
R210 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R18 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Script (Hardcover): Alexander P.M. van den Bosch The Script (Hardcover)
Alexander P.M. van den Bosch
R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Agnes Moorehead - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, New): Lynn Kear Agnes Moorehead - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, New)
Lynn Kear
R2,083 R1,898 Discovery Miles 18 980 Save R185 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This bio-bibliography provides an overview of the life and career of the noted actress Agnes Moorehead. A brief biography discusses her midwestern upbringing as well as her academic background and early struggles in establishing her career. The biography also discusses Moorehead's later career successes in addition to her professional and personal relationships. The largest portion of the book is devoted to detailed listings of her work in film, television, radio and theatre. In many cases, these listings include synopses, cast listings and credits, review excerpts, and other information. Her most celebrated appearances are described and discussed at length. These appearances include the films, Citizen Kane and Magnificent Ambersons; television programs, "The Twilight Zone," "The Wild, Wild West," and "Bewitched;" radio shows "The March of Time," "The Shadow," and "Sorry, Wrong Number;" and her one-woman stage production as well as her work in Don Juan in Hell. This work is a valuable addition to the performing arts series.

The Last Great American Picture Show - New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s (Paperback): Alexander Horwath, Noel King, Thomas... The Last Great American Picture Show - New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s (Paperback)
Alexander Horwath, Noel King, Thomas Elsaesser
R2,278 Discovery Miles 22 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The French Connection, The Last Picture Show, M.A.S.H., Harold and Maude"--these are only a few of the iconic films made in the United States during the 1970s. Originally considered a "lost generation," the 1970s are increasingly recognized as a crucial turning point in American filmmaking, and many films from the era have resurfaced from oblivion to become a reference for new directorial talents. "The Last Great American Picture Show" explores this pivotal era in American film history with a collection of essays by scholars and writers that firmly situates the decade as the time of the emergence of "New Hollywood."
Sam Peckinpah, Arthur Penn, Peter Bogdanovich, Monte Hellman, Bob Rafelson, Hal Ashy, Robert Altman, and James Tobac: these legendary directors developed innovative techniques, gritty aesthetics, and a modern sensibility in American film. Here, contributors compellingly argue that the cinema of today's major directors--Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Quentin Tarantino, Ridley Scott, Robert Zemeckis--could not have come into existence without the groundbreaking works produced by the directors of the 1970s. A wholly engaging and long-overdue investigation of this important era in American film, "The Last Great American Picture Show" reveals how the films of the 1970s transformed the American social consciousness and influenced filmmaking worldwide.

Covering Catastrophe (Hardcover): Allison Gilbert Covering Catastrophe (Hardcover)
Allison Gilbert
R760 R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Save R49 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Covering Catastrophe tells what it was like for TV and radio journalists to report the most terrifying story of their lives-and our time.

Ancient Worlds in Film and Television - Gender and Politics (Hardcover): Almut-Barbara Renger, Jon Solomon Ancient Worlds in Film and Television - Gender and Politics (Hardcover)
Almut-Barbara Renger, Jon Solomon
R5,322 Discovery Miles 53 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholarly reception of antiquity. In this volume, scholars from a variety of countries and varying academic disciplines have addressed film s way of using the field of Classical Reception to investigate, contemplate, and develop hypotheses about present-day culture, society, and politics, with a particular emphasis on gender and gender roles, their relationship to one another, and how filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices.

The Good Fight: A Paramedic's Story (Hardcover): J. Christopher Thomas The Good Fight: A Paramedic's Story (Hardcover)
J. Christopher Thomas
R844 Discovery Miles 8 440 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Beside the Thin Red Line of the fire service and the Thin Blue Line of law enforcement lies the Thin White Line. The Thin White Line represents the unsung heroes of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) profession. These highly trained EMTs and paramedics put their lives on the line 24/7/365 to deliver emergency medical care to the sick and injured, no matter the hour of day, day of the week, or type of weather. Whether they are treating patients of a multi-vehicle car crash, the victim of a shooting, or simply someone with breathing difficulty, they are the ones we depend on to bring medicine to the streets and save lives, one call at a time. "The Good Fight: A Paramedic's Story" gives you the opportunity to ride along with medics and experience first-hand the true stories of courage and compassion that these highly skilled medical providers encounter every day. So hop in, buckle up, and hold on tight. This will be a ride you won't forget.

Art in Other Places - Artists at Work in America's Community and Social Institutions (Hardcover): William Cleveland Art in Other Places - Artists at Work in America's Community and Social Institutions (Hardcover)
William Cleveland
R2,231 R2,062 Discovery Miles 20 620 Save R169 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the past 15 years, artists have established a remarkable record of innovation and success in institutional settings. Their work with hospital patients, prisoners, the elderly, the disabled, the mentally ill, and others has shown that the arts can have a significant positive impact on the lives of these people. This book recounts the histories of 22 institutional and community arts programs across the country pioneering this approach through activities such as creative writing and the performing and visual arts. Consisting largely of first-hand accounts, the book demonstrates how the creative processes have been used to address and solve some of society's most pressing problems. Included are case studies, research, and descriptions of the wide variety of artistic, educational, and therapeutic approaches utilized by each of the 22 programs. Also described are many of the financial and political strategies used to build and sustain support for these unlikely endeavors. This work will provide valuable insights for artists, educators, social service providers, and community leaders.

An Enemy of the People (Hardcover): Henrik Johan Ibsen An Enemy of the People (Hardcover)
Henrik Johan Ibsen
R576 Discovery Miles 5 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Nicholas Rudall, whose acclaimed translations of Ibsen and the Greek classic playwrights have brought a fresh perspective to the American theater, turns his talents to one of the Norwegian dramatist's most provocative plays. In a rebuke to the Victorian notion of community as well as to the blessings of democracy, Ibsen creates a situation in which one man must stand alone to face the forces allied against him. In a coastal town, a community-minded physician has promoted the development of public baths in order to attract tourists. When he discovers that the water supply for the baths is contaminated and attempts to publicize the failing and correct it, he and his family are all but driven out of the town he was trying to save.

Shafted! (Paperback): John Godber Shafted! (Paperback)
John Godber
R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

SHAFTED moves forwards and backwards over time, starting after the miners strike in 1984. Act One demonstrates the depression and hopelessness which engulfed a West Yorkshire mining village post the strike and the plethora of menial jobs which HARRY found in order to try to make a living. By the late 1990's DOT had suggested they move to Bridlington to start a new life running a Boarding House. Act Two starts in 2016 with DOT suffering from cancer, immobile in a wheelchair, the act moves backwards thought to success of the boarding house and their new life together, to the time they left UPTON to run the boarding house in the 1990's.

Performing Policy - How Contemporary Politics and Cultural Programs Redefined U.S. Artists for the Twenty-First Century... Performing Policy - How Contemporary Politics and Cultural Programs Redefined U.S. Artists for the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
P. Bonin-Rodriguez
R2,626 Discovery Miles 26 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book demonstrates how and why a majority of US artists must now function as producers of their original works, as well as creators. The author shows how, over the span of 20 years, the USA's cultural policy sector radically redefined US artists' practices without cohesively articulating the expectations of artists' new role.

Tellings and Texts - Music, Literature and Performance in North India (Hardcover): Francesca Orsini, Katherine Butler Schofield Tellings and Texts - Music, Literature and Performance in North India (Hardcover)
Francesca Orsini, Katherine Butler Schofield
R1,593 Discovery Miles 15 930 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Hits (Hardcover): Alexander P.M. van den Bosch The Hits (Hardcover)
Alexander P.M. van den Bosch
R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The New York Friars Club Book of Roasts - The Wittiest, Most Hilarious, and Most Unprintable Moments from the Friars Club... The New York Friars Club Book of Roasts - The Wittiest, Most Hilarious, and Most Unprintable Moments from the Friars Club (Paperback, New Ed)
Barry Dougherty
R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A glimpse into the private world of the hilarious Friars. The legendary New York Friars Club and its members are known the world over. This is a hilarious compilation of tales, anecdotes, and historical information about the club, featuring funny and moving moments from hundreds of stars like Milton Berle, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, Don Rickles, and more, as well as stars of today, like Kelsey Grammer, Jason Alexander, Billy Crystal, and Drew Carey. The Friars are renowned for dishing out jokes and doling out insults in order to roast countless performers, politicians, and popular personalities. From their first testimonial dinner in 1907 to their televised roast of Jerry Stiller in 1999, you'll be inside the club, where ribaldry is synonymous with fraternity. The Friars have never held back when the promise of a good laugh, especially at someone else's expense, was at hand. Find out what was really said and done at those titillating tongue-lashings known as the private and exclusive Friars Roasts (where even the waiters were ordered out of the room).

Secrets (Hardcover): Dorothy a Dukes Secrets (Hardcover)
Dorothy a Dukes
R853 Discovery Miles 8 530 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Spliced (Paperback): Timmy Creed Spliced (Paperback)
Timmy Creed
R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

''Timmy Creed's explosive one-man show...this intense production fearlessly tackles Irish masculine stereotypes.'' SUNDAY TIMES Timmy plays hurling, the fastest field sport in the world. He loves it. He hates it. Honest, brave and hard-hitting, Spliced is a visceral account of his struggle to become an individual outside of the sporting institution that raised him. He wants to talk about identity, masculinity and mental health in a sports club. From one of Ireland's exciting up-and-coming writers comes a fun, fierce, site-specific show with thrilling music and video.

How To Be Brave (Paperback): Sian Owen How To Be Brave (Paperback)
Sian Owen
R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Katie has gone from a little girl who used to climb trees, ride bikes and go on adventures to an adult who worries about everything. But now Katie is a mum, she must be brave in a whole new way. Determined that her young daughter will never lose the powerful, fierce magic she arrived into the world with, Katie sets off on a mission with the help of a stolen BMX, a policewoman with bad hair and a pigeon in a bag as she rides around Newport to find what she's really made of. By listening to the unheard voices of the city, she begins to discover what the women who have gone before can teach her about how to be brave. Sian Owen's one-woman play is about what we are made of, what we leave behind, and learning to be brave when your world is falling apart.

The Ends of Performance (Hardcover, New): Peggy Phelan, Jill Lane The Ends of Performance (Hardcover, New)
Peggy Phelan, Jill Lane
R2,886 Discovery Miles 28 860 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A broad and inclusive volume of the celebrations and critiques of performance arts Focusing on the living arts-dance, theatre, music, performance art, ritual, and popular entertainment-performance studies expands our understanding of "performance" as both a vital artistic practice and a means by which to understand social and cultural processes. Bridging the gap between cultural studies, performing arts, and anthropology, performance studies explores myriad ways in which performance creates meaning and shapes our everyday lives. The broadest and most inclusive volume to date, The Ends of Performance both celebrates and critiques the institutionalization of the field. Only recently has the field given keen attention to the interpretive force and consequences of performance events, and it is these consequences that the The Ends of Performance articulates. Here performance studies illuminates the complex social and cultural formations of our time--the impact of virtual technology, the racialized discourses of legal and cultural citizenship, the impact of new medical discourses, and the medicalization of the body. Featuring work by leading theorists such as Joseph Roach, Diana Taylor, and Richard Schechner, excursions into performative writing by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Della Pollock, and texts by performance artists Orlan and Deb Margolin, The Ends of Performance illuminates the provocative intellectual ends which motivate these varied approaches to performing writing, and to writing performance.

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