Performance in Popular Culture
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Screens and things -- 1 The Marx Brothers: From stage to screen -- 2 Betty Boop's animated performances -- 3 Performing the pandemic -- Part II Boxed sets -- 4 Puppet plays: Boxes are made to be broken -- 5 I Love Lucy: From live performance to canned entertainment -- 6 Do you hear the people sing? -- Part III Stars in our eyes -- 7 Like a diva: From Maria Callas to Madonna -- 8 Beyoncé's Homecoming | 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' -- 9 Got Talent -- Part IV Public arts/art's publics -- 10 Fragments of the past, cabinets of curiosity and cultural convergences -- 11 Marina Abramović is present -- 12 Pepper's Ghost and the haunted, educational exhibits at Wellington Museum -- Part V Sporting arenas and fields of play -- 13 The fix is in: Professional wrestling -- 14 Olympian opening ceremonies -- 15 Cheerleaders in the popular (American) imagination -- Part VI Sideshows no more -- 16 Evangelical performance: From morality plays to the Power Team and Hell House -- 17 Queer shows -- 18 Feminism: One step forward, three steps back? -- Part VII Culture shows -- 19 Performing Māori -- 20 Shakespeare's Globe Theatre: Planted in London, popping up in Auckland -- 21 Making a show of royalty -- Part VIII Power, politics and protest -- 22 Donald Trump and the pro-wrestling-ification of politics in the USA -- 23 Race matters -- 24 Visions of the apocalypse -- Index.