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  • The Great Salt Lake Mime Saga and Amsterdam’s Festival of Fools
    Michael R. Evans
    This attractive collection of images and words shows an unfolding story of artists and musicians meeting at the University of Utahs now-famous Dance Department then taking their original ideas into some of the best theaters in Salt Lake City then even further on to Colorado, Wisconsin, and the first International Mime Festival held in the United States during 1974, just about a...
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    33,72 €

  • The Laughing Dead
    Miller
    Hybrid films that straddle more than one genre are not unusual. But when seemingly incongruous genres are mashed together, such as horror and comedy, filmmakers often have to tread carefully to produce a cohesive, satisfying work. Though they date as far back as James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein (1935), horror-comedies have only recently become popular attractions for movie g...
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    128,91 €

  • The Book of Five Cyphers
    Cory Howell
    The Book of Five Cyphers is a comprehensive guide on the essential tenets of bboying and bgirling. Modeled after The Book of Five Rings by legendary Japanese samurai Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Cyphers relates each of the core elements--Earth, Water, Wind, Fire--to a particular aspect of bboying, covering training fundamentals, energy and movement, battle strategy, and o...
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    9,22 €

  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version)
    William Shakespeare
    Friendship, infidelity, love--sound like a Spanish soap opera?! Nope. It's Shakespeare! Of course you probably miss a lot of the humor if you don't understand archaic English. Let BookCaps help!  If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation of The Two Gentlemen of Verona.  The original text is...
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    11,45 €

  • A Midsummer Nights Dream In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version)
    William Shakespeare
    A Midsummer's Night Dream is one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies--so why aren't you laughing? Let's face it..if you don't understand Shakespeare, then you are not alone. If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation of A Midsummer Nights Dream. A Midsummer’s Night Dream was wri...
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    10,31 €

  • Measure for Measure In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version)
    BookCaps / William Shakespeare
    Mercy, justice and truth and their relationship to pride and humility--sound like the themes of a John Grisham novel? Not exactly. But wouldn't it be nice if Shakespeare could be as easy to read as a Grisham novel? Now it can with this modern retelling. If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation o...
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    10,90 €

  • A Woman and a Suitcase
    F. Thomas Vincent
    Written for the theatre, A Woman and a Suitcase, is a contemporary play with witty, sharp banter between complete strangers. In this dark comedy, Doris and Henry meet for the first time at a light rail platform. While waiting for the next train to arrive, bizarre antics start to develop, leaving the audience to ask, “What the heck is inside the suitcase?” ...
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    11,08 €

  • Humour, Comedy and Laughter
    Lidia Dina Sciama
    Anthropological writings on humor are not very numerous or extensive, but they do contain a great deal of insight into the diverse mental and social processes that underlie joking and laughter. On the basis of a wide range of ethnographic and textual materials, the chapters examine the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humor and its potential to bring about a sense of a...
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    205,16 €

  • Premios Príncipe de Asturias
    Carlos Fuente Lafuente
    Los Premios Príncipe de Asturias, se iniciaron en 1981, hasta consolidarse hoy como uno de los galardones de ámbito generalista más importantes del mundo. La UNESCO (en su XXV aniversario), los calificó de excepcional aportación al patrimonio cultural de la Humanidad. Aquí se ofrece un balance de sus treinta primeros años (1981-2010), periodo en que estos premios han logrado al...
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    20,80 €

  • Eventos corporativos: Puesta en escena, creatividad y espectáculo
    Gloria Campos García de Quevedo
    Esta obra resulta indispensable para todo aquel interesado en la gestión de eventos corporativos tras la globalización: ¿cómo innovar hoy y sacar el máximo provecho a los eventos? Se explica aquí la puesta en escena de las manifestaciones artísticas y elementos dinamizadores que integran los eventos corporativos y su capacidad para vehicular los mensajes a trasmitir, facilitánd...
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    20,80 €

  • The Funniest Comedy Icons of the 20th Century, Volume 2 (hardback)
    Paul Stanley
    This is the HARDBACK version. In a continuation of his memorable Vol. 1, again journey into a world of comedy featuring some of the best comedians and comediennes of a different time and place. Dozens of encounters, each based on a one-on-one interview, some dating as far back as the 1960s, recalled by John Stanley, for thirty-three years an entertainment writer for the ...
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    37,81 €

  • The Funniest Comedy Icons of the 20th Century, Volume 1
    John Stanley
    Journey into a world of comedy featuring some of the best comedians and comediennes of a different time and place. Dozens of encounters, each based on a one-on-one interview, some dating as far back as the 1960s, recalled by John Stalney, for thirty-three years an entertainment writer for the San Francisco Chronicle’s Dateook. Stanley specialized in exclusive moments with sta...
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    29,38 €

  • The Funniest Comedy Icons of the 20th Century, Volume 1 (hardback)
    John Stanley
    This is the HARDBACK version. Journey into a world of comedy featuring some of the best comedians and comediennes of a different time and place. Dozens of encounters, each based on a one-on-one interview, some dating as far back as the 1960s, recalled by John Stalney, for thirty-three years an entertainment writer for the San Francisco Chronicle’s Dateook. Stanley specialized...
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    39,55 €

  • DanceKinesis
    Percell St. Thomass / Percell StThomass
    I knew that DanceKinesis was the missing dimension in Ballroom and Latin dance training and performing, but I needed to put it into a format that would be most helpful to dancers. I sought the opinions of many social and professional dancers world-wide, and, now, this world-class body, movement, and dance training system is the tried and proven result of their responses. DanceK...
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    90,93 €

  • Until the Lions
    Karthika Nair
    Karthika Nair’s epic poem Until the Lions is conceived as an echo of its great Sanskrit forerunner,the Mahabharata. It is an echo in which women drive the narrative and are its main characters, a vivid and compelling retelling from a female perspective of many of the stories from one of the world’s most venerated books. ...
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    17,27 €

  • Movies, Moves and Music
    Dance on film has never been more relevant or compelling. From Saturday Night Fever, to Black Swan and the Step Up series of street dance movies, mainstream cinema has engaged, entertained and instructed generations of audiences, young and old, in the power of dance to shape bodies and desires. Music and sound are an indelible part of this phenomenon. Music not only motivates d...
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    128,04 €

  • Movies, Moves and Music
    Dance on film has never been more relevant or compelling. From Saturday Night Fever, to Black Swan and the Step Up series of street dance movies, mainstream cinema has engaged, entertained and instructed generations of audiences, young and old, in the power of dance to shape bodies and desires. Music and sound are an indelible part of this phenomenon. Music not only motivates d...
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    37,89 €

  • Honesty Optional
    Kenneth Muller
    Honesty Optional is a contemporary drama/comedy that confronts the blurred lines of honesty and expectations between and among teens and adults. Two very divergent families discover that they have more in common than they might have expected. Everybody cheats at something. Where is the moral compass, and who really has the right to hold it and lead others in the direction it...
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    24,04 €

  • In Search of Legitimacy
    Lauren Miller Griffith
    Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why 'first world' men and women leave behind their jobs, families, and friends to pursue a strenuous training regimen in a historic...
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    205,22 €

  • Behind the Scenes
    Mick Napier
    ''Mick has been the catalyst for the most messed-up, funny, smart, low-budget, loud, subversive, hilarious, mind-expanding improv shows of his time.'' Bob Odenkirk, star of ''Better Call Saul.'' In this follow-up to his highly regarded book ''Improvise. Scene from the Inside Out'', globally acclaimed improviser, director, and instructor Mick Napier focuses on the complexities a...
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    28,57 €

  • Behind the Scenes
    Mick Napier
    'Mick has been the catalyst for the most messed-up, funny, smart, low-budget, loud, subversive, hilarious, mind-expanding improv shows of his time.' Bob Odenkirk, star of 'Better Call Saul.' In this follow-up to his highly regarded book 'Improvise. Scene from the Inside Out', globally acclaimed improviser, director, and instructor Mick Napier focuses on the complexities and the...
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    19,93 €

  • A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen
    Shaun May
    As far as we know, only human beings have a sense of humour - although chimps might laugh when tickled, and dogs respond similarly in play, Seth McFarlane’s fan-base is comprised exclusively of humans. Whilst animals and robots might feature as prominent characters in our favourite comic movies, shows and stand-up routines, we have no reason to suspect that their real-life bret...
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    174,01 €

  • Writing the Comedy Movie
    Marc Blake
    It is often suggested that there are ’secrets’ to comedy or that it is ’lightning in a bottle’, but the craft of comedy writing can be taught. While comedic tastes change, over time and from person to person, the core underpinning still depends on the comedic geniuses that have paved the way. Great comedy is built upon a strong foundation. In Writing the Comedy Movie, Marc Blak...
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    154,18 €

  • Writing the Comedy Movie
    Marc Blake
    It is often suggested that there are ’secrets’ to comedy or that it is ’lightning in a bottle’, but the craft of comedy writing can be taught. While comedic tastes change, over time and from person to person, the core underpinning still depends on the comedic geniuses that have paved the way. Great comedy is built upon a strong foundation. In Writing the Comedy Movie, Marc Blak...
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    48,34 €

  • Vulgar Art
    Ian Brodie
    THE FIRST EXAMINATION OF STAND-UP COMEDY THROUGH THE LENS OF FOLKLOREIn A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, leveraging the discipline’s central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because stand-up comedy is a rather broad category, people who study it often begin by relating it to something they recogniz...
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    50,08 €

  • The Fire Knife Dance
    Pulefano F. L. Galea 'i / Pulefano F. L. Galea ’i
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    84,60 €

  • THE COMIC ART OF MEL BROOKS
    Maurice Yacowar
    THE COMIC ART OF MEL BROOKSBy Maurice Yacowar Mel Brooks is a mystery. On the one hand, he is notorious for his wacky public behaviour and for his zany films. On the other, some of his public pronouncements show him to be a very serious fellow. While his audiences clutch their sides in helpless laughter, Madman Mel warns us that serious things are going on amid those wild going...
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    39,83 €

  • THE COMIC ART OF MEL BROOKS
    Maurice Yacowar
    THE COMIC ART OF MEL BROOKSBy Maurice Yacowar Mel Brooks is a mystery. On the one hand, he is notorious for his wacky public behaviour and for his zany films. On the other, some of his public pronouncements show him to be a very serious fellow. While his audiences clutch their sides in helpless laughter, Madman Mel warns us that serious things are going on amid those wild going...
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    23,12 €

  • The Opening Act
    Kevin Cowherd / Larry Noto
    Ever since he was a kid, Larry Noto dreamt of being a comic. And eventually his dream of a career in stand-up came true . . . sort of.He’s performed in New York and Las Vegas. He’s worked in TV and radio. He’s opened for the biggest names in the business, including Brian Regan, Lewis Black, Paul Reiser, Bob Saget and Richard Lewis.But while he’s been lucky to hone his comedy ch...
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    21,26 €

  • The Opening Act
    Kevin Cowherd / Larry Noto
    Ever since he was a kid, Larry Noto dreamt of being a comic. And eventually his dream of a career in stand-up came true . . . sort of.He’s performed in New York and Las Vegas. He’s worked in TV and radio. He’s opened for the biggest names in the business, including Brian Regan, Lewis Black, Paul Reiser, Bob Saget and Richard Lewis.But while he’s been lucky to hone his comedy ch...
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    16,01 €