This groundbreaking volume of critical essays about popular entertainments brings together the work of eighteen established, emerging, and independent scholars

Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudeville was also Am

This insightful book introduces the most important trends, people, events, and products of popular culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. In recent times,

This definitive study of Hong Kong cinema examines the work of directors such as Tsui Hark, John Woo, Ringo Lam, Johnnie To, King Hu, and Wong Kar Wai.

First published in 1985. Dickens was a vigorous champion of the right of all men and women to carefree amusements and dedicated himself to the creation of imagi