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I. Archives -- Alternative archives in popular entertainment research: The Chinese exclusion act case files / Maria DeSimone -- Like finding a needle in a haystack: Child actors and the archive / Gillian Arrighi -- Don Juan in Montreal: Investigating music in eighteenth century pantomime / Kim Baston -- Carry on curating: Comedy at the V&A / Simon Sladen -- II. Text -- In search of lost performances: The challenges of reconstructing a nineteenth-century Karagöz play / Nazli M. Ümit -- Postcards and popular entertainment studies: Resources and methods / Penny Farfan -- Seductive texts: The uses of art as historical evidence / Jason Price -- Reading meaning in a contested landscape: The challenges of investigating Australian bushranger re-enactments / Janys Hayes -- III. Bodies -- Seeking the ghost Clari: Creative practice and virtual reality as a method for the revival of nineteenth-century performances in colonial Australia / Jane Woollard -- Finding Likay through practice: A research-practitioner's reflection on specialising in the Thai popular form / Sukanya Sompiboon -- Pierrots on the Prom: re-enactment, revival and in-heritage transfer in seaside performance / Tony Lidington -- Funny then and now?: Reenacting World War II soldier sketch comedy / Tara Demmy -- Placing yourself in performance research: A phenomenological approach to investigating stand-up comedy / Yingnan Chu -- Lip-synching for (some) Life: Researching queer/camp bodies through practice-based methods / Simon Dodi.