Researching Popular Entertainment [Hardcover]

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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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 reconstructl#)