"The first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the vast global workforce, suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of their work and lives"--
French comedy films occupy a specific cultural space and are influenced by national traditions and shared cultural references, but at the same time they have always been difficult to classify. This book investigates the different methods in which these comedies textually inscrib…
Performance costume: new perspectives and methods
"Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work. A new focus in recent years on research in the area of costume has connected this practice in vital and new ways with theories of the body …