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Researching Popular Entertainment

 
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Researching Popular Entertainment is an essential volume for scholars delving into the vibrant yet complex world of popular entertainment. Written by a global network of experts, this book addresses the unique challenges researchers face in this field.

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Researching Popular Entertainment is an essential volume for scholars delving into the vibrant yet complex world of popular entertainment.


Written by a global network of experts, this book addresses the unique challenges researchers face in this field. The often-dismissed status of popular entertainment, coupled with its reliance on physicality and improvisation over scripted performances, has meant archival and textual sources tend to be more limited than in related theatre and performance disciplines. This scarcity requires historians to find alternative pathways through the available materials to recuperate seemingly insignificant figures and performance forms from our cultural past. This book provides a candid look into the research processes of its authors, highlighting some of the approaches they have adopted to overcome these challenges. It emphasises that reading performance as entertainment is a deliberate methodological choice. Regardless of whether a work is deemed high or low art, legitimate or illegitimate, understanding how it captivates its audience is central to the study of entertainment.


Readers will benefit from its in-depth analysis and practical guidance, making it an indispensable resource for anyone studying popular entertainment.

Table of Contents:

List of figures


Acknowledgements


Notes on contributors


 


1.      Introduction: entertainment as method


Kim Baston and Jason Price


 


 


I. ARCHIVES


 


2.      Alternative archives in popular entertainment research: the Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files


Maria De Simone


 


3.      Like finding a needle in a haystack: child actors and the archive


Gillian Arrighi


 


4.      Don Juan in Montreal: investigating music in eighteenth-century pantomime


Kim Baston


 


5.      Carry on curating: comedy at the V&A


Simon Sladen


 


 


II. TEXTS


 


6.      In search of lost performances: the challenges of reconstructing a nineteenth-century Karagöz play


Nazli M. Ümit


 


7.      Postcards and popular entertainment studies: resources and methods


Penny Farfan


 


8.      Seductive texts: the uses of art as historical evidence


Jason Price


 


9.      Reading meaning in a contested landscape: the challenges of investigating Australian bushranger re-enactments


Janys Hayes


 


 


III. BODIES


 


10.  Seeking the ghost Clari: creative practice and virtual reality as a method for the revival of nineteenth-century performances in colonial Australia


Jane Woollard


 


11.  Finding Likay through practice: a research-practitioner?s reflection on specialising in the Thai popular form


Sukanya Sompiboon


 


12.  Pierrots on the Prom: re-enactment, revival and in-heritage transfer in seaside performance


Tony Lidington


 


13.  Funny then and now? Re-enacting World War II soldier sketch comedy


Tara Demmy


 


14.  Placing yourself in performance research: a phenomenological approach to investigating stand-up comedy


Yingnan Chu


 


15.  Lip-synching for (some) life: researching queer/camp bodies through practice-based methods


Simon Dodi


 


Index