TY - BOOK AU - Baston,Kim AU - Price,Jason TI - Researching popular entertainment T2 - Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies SN - 9781032547534 (hbk) U1 - 791 20 PY - 2025/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group KW - Artes escénicas KW - Investigación KW - Metodología KW - Diversiones KW - Medios y cultura popular N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices; 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. ER -