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Popular Culture
1. 
Evocative essays and interviews that celebrate the expressive possibilities of a world after dark
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2021 | $39.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Queer Nightlife" to Cart |
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1.
Evocative essays and interviews that celebrate the expressive possibilities of a world after dark
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2021 | $39.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Queer Nightlife" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2021 | $95.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Queer Nightlife" to Cart |
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1.
Evocative essays and interviews that celebrate the expressive possibilities of a world after dark
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2021 | $39.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Queer Nightlife" to Cart |
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2. 
Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance
From the conga line to West Side Story to Ricky Martin, how popular performance prompted American audiences to view Latinos as a distinct (and distinctly non-white) ethnic group
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2015 | $32.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Latin Numbers" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2015 | $85.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Latin Numbers" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2015 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Latin Numbers" |
2.
Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance
From the conga line to West Side Story to Ricky Martin, how popular performance prompted American audiences to view Latinos as a distinct (and distinctly non-white) ethnic group
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2015 | $32.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Latin Numbers" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2015 | $85.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Latin Numbers" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2015 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Latin Numbers" |
2.
Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance
From the conga line to West Side Story to Ricky Martin, how popular performance prompted American audiences to view Latinos as a distinct (and distinctly non-white) ethnic group
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2015 | $32.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Latin Numbers" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2015 | $85.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Latin Numbers" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2015 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Latin Numbers" |
3. 
Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany
An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2009 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Ethnic Drag" to Cart |
4. 
A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement
The first comprehensive history of Off-Off Broadway
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2006 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Playing Underground" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2009 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Playing Underground" |
4.
A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement
The first comprehensive history of Off-Off Broadway
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2006 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Playing Underground" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2009 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Playing Underground" |
5. 
Gender, Race, Nation, and the Making of Caribbean Cultural Politics
Caribbean popular culture—including cricket, carnival, beauty pageants, and calypso—sheds light on the evolving cultural politics of the region
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2006 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Cultural Conundrums" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Cultural Conundrums" |
5.
Gender, Race, Nation, and the Making of Caribbean Cultural Politics
Caribbean popular culture—including cricket, carnival, beauty pageants, and calypso—sheds light on the evolving cultural politics of the region
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2006 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Cultural Conundrums" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Cultural Conundrums" |
6. 
The Multimedia Performances of Dan Kwong
A controversial and entertaining collection of recent work by this acclaimed performance artist
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2004 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "From Inner Worlds to Outer Space" to Cart |
7. 
Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Explores the relationship between nationalism, colonialism, and the politics of theater in colonial and postcolonial India
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2004 | $79.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance" |
7.
Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Explores the relationship between nationalism, colonialism, and the politics of theater in colonial and postcolonial India
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2004 | $79.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance" |
8. 
The Theatre as Memory Machine
Uncovers the ways in which the spectator's memory informs theatrical reception
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2003 | $27.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Haunted Stage" to Cart |
9. 
Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2003 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Stage Life of Props" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Stage Life of Props" |
9.
Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2003 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Stage Life of Props" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Stage Life of Props" |
10. 
Recontextualizing American Theater
An eclectic collection of essays on theater and its decline as highbrow culture, under the influence of theme parks and blockbuster movies
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2003 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "A Queer Sort of Materialism" to Cart |
11. 
Essays by leading theater scholars and theorists exploring the "turn to landscape" in modern and contemporary theater
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2002 | $38.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Land/Scape/Theater" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2002 | $104.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Land/Scape/Theater" to Cart |
11.
Essays by leading theater scholars and theorists exploring the "turn to landscape" in modern and contemporary theater
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2002 | $38.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Land/Scape/Theater" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2002 | $104.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Land/Scape/Theater" to Cart |
12. 
Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty
American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2002 | $32.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Agitated States" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2002 | $99.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Agitated States" to Cart |
12.
Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty
American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2002 | $32.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Agitated States" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2002 | $99.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Agitated States" to Cart |
13. 
American Alternative Theatre
An update of this popular history of experimental American theater
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| Paper | 2002 | $36.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Beyond the Boundaries" to Cart |
14. 
A moving and genre-defying text, written after a great loss, that blurs the boundaries between writing and performance
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $33.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Infinity (Stage)" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 1999 | $94.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Infinity (Stage)" to Cart |
14.
A moving and genre-defying text, written after a great loss, that blurs the boundaries between writing and performance
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $33.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Infinity (Stage)" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 1999 | $94.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Infinity (Stage)" to Cart |
15. 
Cultural Nationalism in American Theater
How theatrical representations of the U.S. have shaped national identity
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $39.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Performing America" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2009 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Performing America" |
15.
Cultural Nationalism in American Theater
How theatrical representations of the U.S. have shaped national identity
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $39.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Performing America" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2009 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Performing America" |
16. 
Performance, Historiography, Hull-House Domesticity
Applies the interdisciplinary insights of performance studies to the life of Chicago's Hull-House settlement
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Lines of Activity" to Cart |
17. 
International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance
International perspectives on a form of activist, participatory theater with marginalized groups in cities around the world
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $39.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Performing Democracy" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2001 | $99.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Performing Democracy" to Cart |
17.
International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance
International perspectives on a form of activist, participatory theater with marginalized groups in cities around the world
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $39.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Performing Democracy" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2001 | $99.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Performing Democracy" to Cart |
18. 
The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World
Examines ancient notions of what constitutes a "good man"
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2000 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Staging Masculinity" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Staging Masculinity" |
18.
The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World
Examines ancient notions of what constitutes a "good man"
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2000 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Staging Masculinity" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Staging Masculinity" |
19. 
Heuristic Ethnography with the Ohafia Igbo
Outlines a method for incorporating indigenous knowledge into anthropological work as a source of theoretical alternatives
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2000 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Dancing Histories" to Cart |
20. 
Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his childhood
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2000 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Brian Friel in Conversation" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Brian Friel in Conversation" to Cart |
20.
Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his childhood
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2000 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Brian Friel in Conversation" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2000 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Brian Friel in Conversation" to Cart |
21. 
Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject--A Reader
The complete guide to camp; an anthology of the best writing on its history and current theory in cultural studies and lesbian and gay studies
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 1999 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Camp" to Cart |
22. 
Reading the Contemporary Stage
If such a thing as postmodern drama exists, how should we read it?
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 1998 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Postmodern/Drama" to Cart |
23. 
Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre
The Australian stage explored for its complex negotiations of race, gender, and post-colonialism
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 1998 | $33.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Sightlines" to Cart |
24. 
Essays on Political Theater
Fresh perspectives on political theater and its essential contribution to contemporary culture
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 1998 | $35.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Staging Resistance" to Cart |
25. 
The premier American playwright of this decade speaks out about art, sexuality, and social justice
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| Paper | 1998 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Tony Kushner in Conversation" to Cart |
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