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Letters to a Young Actor
Basic Books 2009; US$ 14.95Inspiration and guidance for struggling performers more...
The Right to Play Oneself
University of Minnesota Press 2011; US$ 82.50"The Right to Play Oneself" collects for the first time Thomas Waugh's essays on the politics, history, and aesthetics of documentary film, written between 1974 and 2008. The title, inspired by Walter Benjamin's and Joris Ivens's manifestos of "committed" documentary from the 19 0s, reflects the book's theme of the... more...
The Feminization of Fame 1750-1830
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 90.00This book addresses the literary, cultural and historical questions surrounding the reconceptualization of fame between 1750-1830. It examines genres from history writing to literature, public and private memoirs to political treatises in English and in French in order to explore 'The age of personality's' obsession with instantaneous publicity. more...
Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2012
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 49.95The entertainment world lost several legendary stars and a host of other men and women involved in the performing arts in 2012. Notables who died include actor Larry Hagman, astronaut Neil Armstrong, voice actor Jerry Nelson (The Count of Sesame Street), comedian Phyllis Diller, singer Whitney Houston, and actor George Lindsey. Obituaries of these... more...
Theatrical Liberalism
NYU Press 2013; US$ 75.00"Makes new sense of aspects of popular culture we have all grown up with and thought we knew only too well. Most bridges religious studies and theater, political theory and American studies, high criticism and middlebrow performance. Her book will help us see better how Jews and their Jewishness did not merely enter American popular... more...
Jumpers for Goalposts
Nick Hern Books 2013; US$ 14.57A hilarious and heart-warming comedy about football, friendship and finding your way. Luke wants Danny, but Danny's got a secret. Joe's happy in goal but Geoff wants a headline gig. Viv just wants to beat the lesbians to the league title. Game on. Jumpers for Goalposts premiered at Watford Palace Theatre in April 2013, before touring the UK.... more...
Chimerica
Nick Hern Books 2013; US$ 14.57A powerful, provocative play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West. Tiananmen Square, 1989. As tanks roll through Beijing and soldiers hammer on his hotel door, Joe ? a young American photojournalist ? captures a piece of history. New York, 2012. Joe is covering a presidential election, marred by... more...
#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei
Nick Hern Books 2013; US$ 14.57A timely play based on the true story of an imprisoned Nobel Laureate. On 3 April 2011, as he was boarding a flight to Taipei, the Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Airport. Advised merely that his travel ?could damage state security?, he was escorted to a van by officials after which he disappeared for 81 days. On his release, the... more...
The Figure of the Singer
OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 64.99Why did poets continue to call themselves singers, and their poems songs, long after the formal link between poetry and music had been severed? Daniel Karlin explores the origin and meaning of the 'figure of the singer', tracing its roots in classical mythology and in the Bible, and following its rise from the 'adventurous song' of... more...
Right Turns
Crown Publishing Group 2004; US$ 14.95Nationally syndicated talk-radio host and noted film critic Michael Medved has taken an extraordinary journey from liberal activist to outspoken conservative. Along the way he has earned millions of admirers?and more than his share of enemies?by advancing controversial, often counterintuitive arguments, including: ? Liberals love losing because it... more...









