Forthcoming Titles in Performing Arts & Mass Media, 2026

A list of the latest and soon-to-be-released publications through December 2026.

Posted on July 2, 2026 in Forthcoming Academic Titles

Film

100 Years of Laughter: American Comedy in the Twentieth Century, by Garry Berman. Bloomsbury Publishing, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9798216200697 $40.00

Animated Queerness: LGBTQIA+ Representation in Animated Media, ed. by Sotiris Petridis. Bloomsbury Publishing, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9798216383437 $120.00

The Art, Craft, and Business of Motion Capture Acting and Performance, by TJ Storm. Taylor & Francis, Aug. 2026e. ISBN 9781041130536 $190.00

The Basketball Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History, by Samantha N. Sheppard. Rutgers, Nov. 2026. ISBN 9781978806269 $32.95

The Body Swap Film, by Wyatt Moss-Wellington and Kim Wilkins. Berghahn, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781836956709 $135.00

Bollywood’s Corporeal Turn: Aesthetic Response and Diasporic Memory, by Vijay Mishra et al. Anthem, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9781801360319 $110.00

The Cinema of Wes Anderson: Bringing Nostalgia to Life, by Whitney Crothers Dilley. 2nd ed. Wallflower, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9780231219556 $30.00

Film and History in Revolutionary Cuba, by John Mraz. SUNY, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9798855808155 $130.00

The Films of Alfred Hitchcock: Revised and Expanded Edition, by David Sterritt. Wallflower, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9780231223607 $30.00

Generative AI for Film and VFX, by Victor Perez. Taylor & Francis, Aug. 2026e. ISBN 9781041238935 $200.00

Generative AI in Film Production, by Dominic Lees, Lisa Purse, and Mathilde Pavis. Taylor & Francis, Dec. 2026e. ISBN 9781041118886 $69.99

The Girl Who Would Be Marilyn Monroe: An Intimate Portrait of the Young Norma Jeane, by Tony Castro. Bloomsbury, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9798216448648 $32.00

Gloria Rolando: Memory, Liberation, and the African Diaspora through Cuban Film, ed. by Andrea J. Queeley, Devyn Spence Benson, and Yesenia Fernández Selier. SUNY, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9798855808438 $130.00

Governing Genealogies of International Film Education, ed. by Hadi Gharabaghi and Terri Ginsberg. Temple, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781439924648 $45.95

Hell on Wheels: A History of Biker Movies, by Stephen Carver. White Owl, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9781036102128 $42.99

Hud, by James Mayo. New Mexico, Nov. 2026. ISBN 9780826370303 $19.95

Intimacy Coordination for Film and Television, by Zuri Pryor-Graves. Taylor & Francis, Nov. 2026e. ISBN 9781041201328 $200.00

Language Without Borders: English in the Social Imaginary of Hindi Cinema, 1950–2015, by Vaneeta Palecanda. SUNY, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9798855808193 $120.00

Laura Investigations in Classic Hollywood, by Craig Cieslikowski. Anthem, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781839999581 $110.00

Making the Cut at Pixar, by Bill Kinder and Bobbie O’Steen. Taylor & Francis, Nov. 2026e. ISBN 9781041013938 $115.00

Moving Pictures under the Palms, by Nadine Chan. Stanford, Nov. 2026. ISBN 9781503649316 $32.00

The New-Wave Cinema: Evolution of Society’s Art System, by Golnaz Sarkar-Farshi. Bloomsbury Publishing, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9798765125106 $120.00

Observing Film Art: Themes from the Work of David Bordwell, ed. by Charlie Keil and Murray Smith. Rutgers, Dec. 2026. ISBN 9781978841376 $32.95

Over and Over: Performance, Time, and Resonance in Serial Television Drama, by Elliott Logan. Rutgers, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781978816985 $37.95

Poetics of Animation: Medium, Context and Aesthetics, by Paul Taberham. Berghahn, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781836955856 $150.00

The Reception of Archaeology in Film: “X Never, Ever Marks the Spot”, ed. by Kevin McGeough. Equinox, Nov. 2026e. ISBN 9781800508026 $34.00

Roman Polanski after The Pianist: The Man and His Films, by Żaneta Jamrozik and Ewa Mazierska. Berghahn, Nov. 2026. ISBN 9781807580858 $150.00

Straight White Men Can’t Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture, by Addie Tsai. Bloomsbury Publishing, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781350443570 $39.95

True Grit, by Thomas Doherty. New Mexico, Nov. 2026. ISBN 9780826370235 $19.95

Wave Makers and the Rise of #MeToo in Taiwan: Media, Empathy, and Digital Testimony, by XinLing Li. Anthem, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781839999789 $24.95

Working in Film, Television and Entertainment, by Barbara Doyle. Taylor & Francis, Jul. 2026e. ISBN 9781041092889 $190.00

General

Culture and Containment: Race, Geographic Mobility, and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century America, by Colin Anderson. North Carolina, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9781469698120 $34.95

Free to Be More: Creative Activism in the Era of Black Lives Matter, ed. by Syrus Marcus Ware, Ra’anaa Yaminah Ekundayo, with d’bi.young anitafrika. Regina, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781779401328 $32.95

Plunkett’s Games, Apps & Social Media Industry Almanac 2027: Games, Apps & Social Media Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends and Leading Companies, by Jack W. Plunkett, ed. by Jack W. Plunkett. Plunkett, Aug. 2026e. ISBN 9781647881184 $399.99

Practicing the Social: Entanglements of Art and Social Justice, ed. by Carla Rice et al. Wilfrid Laurier, Dec. 2026e. ISBN 9781771127462 $95.00

Street Fight: Mean America and the War on Sesame Street, by Michael Davis. Rutgers, Nov. 2026. ISBN 9781978842281 $32.95

Tumbados: Lowriding Memories and Cruising Futures, ed. by Guadalupe Rosales. Vol. 2. MIT, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9780262056540 $34.95

Viscous Performances: The Persistence of Creative Resistances in Neoliberal Chile, by María José Contreras Lorenzini. Duke, Nov. 2026e. ISBN 9781478034285 $119.95

Voiceworks, by Sarah Hayden. University of Minnesota Press, Nov. 2026. ISBN 9781517914370 $35.00.95

Media & Communication

AI Characters, ed. by Jan-Noel Thon. Taylor & Francis, Jul. 2026e. ISBN 9781041313939 $69.99

Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time, by Yuriko Furuhata. Duke, Sep. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033592 $119.95

Artificial Intelligence in the International Film and Audiovisual Media Industries, ed. by Pei-Sze Chow, Vincente Paulo Nuno, and Catarina Duff Burnay. Taylor & Francis, Aug. 2026e. ISBN 9781041012306 $180.00

Black Sojourner Press: Experiments in Black Periodical Culture Between Emancipation and Decolonization, by Marina Bilbija. Columbia, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9780231222983 $35.00

Borderland Security: Indigenous Law, Media, and Environmental Activism in Kachinland, by Emily Hong. Stanford, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781503646940 $28.00

The Business of Bigotry: John Van Evrie’s Nineteenth-Century Racist Media Empire, by Michael E. Woods. North Carolina, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781469696768 $34.95

Camorra Networks: Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Media Machine of Naples’ Underworld, by Salvatore Giusto. Berghahn, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781807580032 $135.00

Careers in Digital Media. Grey House, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9798891796386 $125.00

Chinese Media Improvisations: Thriving on Deficits, by Xuenan Cao. Stanford, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781503647237 $32.00

Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era, by Sarah Brouillette. Duke, Oct. 2026e. ISBN 9781478039143 $103.95

A Cultural History of Media, ed. by Adrian Bingham and Mark Hampton. 6v. Bloomsbury Publishing, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9781474282574 $550.00

Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations: Resistance, Catharsis, Transformation, by David S. Dalton. Rutgers, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781978847767 $34.95

The Digital Revolution: Loss of Self and Humanity, by George Eastman. Common Notions, Jul. 2026e. ISBN 9781945335655 $22.00

Dissent and Social Media: The Role of Social Media in Facilitating Cultural Change, by Matthew T. Pifer. Anthem, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9781839993909 $110.00

Enjoyment Is Breaking News: How We Became Less Informed and More Divided (and How to Fix It), by Jennifer Hoewe. MIT, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9780262055918 $40.00

Home Team Away: Watching European Football in Urban China, by Yuan Gong. Michigan, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9780472058259 $29.95

Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad, by Jeff Jarvis. Bloomsbury Publishing, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9798765123959 $25.00

How Dungeons & Dragons Changed the Way We Play, by Aaron Trammell. Duke, Sep. 2026e. ISBN 9781478034131 $119.95

How to Watch Sports, ed. by Adam Rugg and Benjamin Burroughs. NYU, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781479830268 $35.00

Law and Media, by Cornelia Vismann, ed. by Anthony Enns. Stanford, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781503647695 $24.00

Masculinity in Chinese Digital Culture: Reproduction and Reconstruction in Videogames and Their Fanfiction, by Yuhua Wu. Anthem, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781801360043 $24.95

Media and Climate Change, by Deepti Ganapathy. Taylor & Francis, Sep. 2026e. ISBN 9781041303534 $190.00

Mis(s) Communication: Stigma and the Miss America Organization, by Rebecca J. Meisenbach. Rutgers, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781978842243 $32.95

A Mobile Popular: Media Entertainment and the Political in Digital India, by Aswin Punathambekar, Sangeet Kumar, and Sriram Mohan. NYU, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9781479812998 $30.00

Netflix, by Rodrigo Gómez and Luis A. Albornoz. Taylor & Francis, Nov. 2026e. ISBN 9781032757803 $64.95

Next Time on Dragon Ball: Playing with a Manga and Anime Franchise, by Vincent Haddad. University of Minnesota Press, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781517919566 $24.95

Nostalgic Futures: The Reactionary Fantasies of Speculative Fiction Fandoms, by Max Dosser. Rutgers, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781978846289 $32.95

Out of Sync: Ventriloquism in Popular Media from Vinyl to TikTok, by Sarah Rebecca Kessler. Duke, Oct. 2026e. ISBN 9781478034261 $119.95

The People’s Paper: The Rise and Fall of the New York Daily News, by Matthew Pressman. Columbia, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9780231222006 $28.00

Planet Digital: A Global Media Cultures Reader, ed. by Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw, and Jonathan Gray. NYU, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781479835171 $37.95

Play Like a Fangirl: Creative Desire in Video Games, by Kristine Ask et al. MIT, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9780262056861 $30.00

Power in Listening: The Sounding Out! Reader, ed. by Jennifer Lynn Stoever, Liana Silva, and Aaron Trammell. NYU, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781479838042 $35.00

Profiling: How Predictive Algorithms Shape Identity and the Social Fabric, by Philippe Huneman. Stanford, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781503646315 $35.00

Reckoning with the Past: National Geographic and the Limits of Social Justice Rhetoric, by Leland G. Spencer. MSU, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781611865714 $34.95

Regimes of Colombianidad: Beauty, Citizenship, Sex, by Isis Giraldo. SUNY, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9798855808582 $130.00

Revolutionary Ink: New York Printers and the Promise of Democracy, 1693–1804, by Mark J. Noonan. Cambridge, Jul. 2026e. ISBN 9781009700184 $29.00

Romantic Media and Wartime Networks, by Deven Parker. Stanford, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781503645608 $75.00

Rural Media Studies: Global Perspectives, ed. by Marc Esteve del Valle and Rashid Gabdulhakov. Bloomsbury Publishing, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781666981599 $120.00

A Science for Everyday Life: Mass Media, Natural History, and the Environment in Britain, 1900–1945, by Max Long. Pittsburgh, Dec. 2026. ISBN 9780822949206 $120.00

Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life, by Ryan Engley. Bloomsbury Publishing, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9798216197799 $90.00

Streaming Media Platforms and Digital Distribution, by Kevin McDonald. Taylor & Francis, Jul. 2026e. ISBN 9781032472966 $200.00

Theorising Media and Time: Temporalities, Media Practices and Politics of Time in a Digital Era, by Nina Grønlykke Mollerup and Birgit Bräuchler. Berghahn, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781836956815 $135.00

War in Pieces: “War on Terror” Media and the Fracturing of American Identity, by Renée Laurel Pastel. Rutgers, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9781978848542 $34.95

Warscapes: Mediating Militarized Environments, ed. by Cortland Rankin and Brady Fletcher. Rutgers, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781978845749 $34.95

WeChat and the New Chinese American, by Jingsi Christina Wu. Temple, Dec. 2026. ISBN 9781439928066 $37.95

Youth in the Movements: High School Student Activism in Twentieth-Century America, ed. by Dara Walker, Alexander Hyres, and Jon Hale. Rutgers, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9781978843707 $39.95ve Manifesto, by Arthur Zajonc. SUNY, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9798855808049 $110.00

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Music

Air Split Open: Odetta, Joan Baez, and the American Folk Movement, by Addie Mahmassani. Iowa, Oct. 2026e. ISBN 9781685970918 $35.00

Aminata: Abbey Lincoln’s Song of Faith, by Ada C.M. Thomas. Rutgers, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781978843356 $29.95

Beyoncé—One of One: History Lessons, Love Letters, and Affirmations from a Cultural Icon, by Antonia Jade King. Beacon, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9780807022504 $29.95

Black Voices on Stage: Recovering African American Performances, 1850–1925, by Thomas L. Riis. SUNY, Oct. 2026e. ISBN 9798855809633 $120.00

Breaking into Song: Television Musicals from Glee to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, by Erin Giannini. Bloomsbury, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781538191910 $36.00

Brother Is a Street Musician: Viewing the Landscape of Modernity through Korean Popular Music, by Eujeong Zhang. Rutgers, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781978844964 $39.95

The Cambridge Companion to Music and Fascism, ed. by Nicholas Attfield and Ben Earle. Cambridge, Oct. 2026e. ISBN 9781108733526 $29.99

The Cambridge Companion to Rodgers and Hammerstein, ed. by William A Everett. Cambridge, Nov. 2026e. ISBN 9781009074858 $29.99

The Disneyfication of Pop: With The Beatles, Beyoncé, and Taylor Swift, by Katie Kapurch. Bloomsbury Publishing, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9798765100035 $120.00

Donna Summer: The Rainbow Voice: From Disco Queen to Global Icon, by Andrea Angeli Bufalini and Giovanni Savastano. Gremese, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9788873017998 $39.99

Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood: Nina Simone, Langston Hughes, and the Birth of Black Power, by W. Jason Miller. North Carolina, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781469698212 $30.00

Don’t Lose Your Good Thing: Rescuing America’s Music Landmarks, by Charlie B. Dahan. SUNY, Nov. 2026e. ISBN 9798855809527 $29.95

Everything Is Everything: Tom Wilson and Pop Music in 1966, by Steven E. Jones. Stanford, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781503647626 $30.00

George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents, ed. by Donald Burrows et al. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Sep. 2026e. ISBN 9781009364713 $195.00

Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation, by Robin James. Duke, Nov. 2026e. ISBN 9781478034360 $119.95

Handel in Context, ed. by Annette Landgraf and Helen Coffey. Cambridge, Nov. 2026e. ISBN 9781108435604 $34.95

Hitting the Right Notes: Film Directors and Composers in Harmony, by Lester D. Friedman and Charity Lofthouse. Rutgers, Nov. 2026. ISBN 9781978833487 $39.95

Irish Traditional Music in Germany: Nationalism, Nostalgia and Intercultural Transactions, by Felix Morgenstern. Equinox, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781800508187 $32.00

Migration, Dislocation, and Place Making in Mexican Popular Music, ed. by Martha I. Chew Sánchez. New Mexico, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9780826370501 $65.00

Musicians and the World, by C. Tayloe Harding, Jr. Taylor & Francis, Dec. 2026e. ISBN 9781032122793 $59.95

The Myth of Opportunity: Music, Labor, and Platforms in the Twenty-First Century, by Ediz Ozelkan. Rutgers, Dec. 2026. ISBN 9781978846463 $32.95

New York Punk, by Ebet Roberts. SUNY, Oct. 2026e. ISBN 9798855808667 $34.95

Opera, Italianità and Transatlantic Exchange: In Search of Italy, by Ditlev Rindom. Cambridge, Aug. 2026e. ISBN 9781009679695 $55.00

Rambling Blues: The Life and Songs of Charlie Poole, by Kinney Rorrer. 2nd ed. North Carolina, Oct. 2026e. ISBN 9781469698403 $25.00

Reggae en Español: Diasporic Cultural Production in Panama, by Sonja Stephenson Watson. Florida, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781683406570 $110.00

Stray Dog in the Milky Way: The Experimental Brazilian Sound of Tom Zé, by Christopher Dunn. North Carolina, Dec. 2026. ISBN 9781469696997 $27.95

The Symphony in Britain and Ireland since 1900: A Critical History, ed. by Nicholas Jones. Cambridge, Aug. 2026e. ISBN 9781009254533 $34.99

Szymanowska: Pianist, Composer, Muse, by Danuta Gwizdalanka. Equinox, Sep. 2026e. ISBN 9781800508804 $32.00

Turntable Stories: Narratives, Memories and Histories from In-between the Grooves, ed. by Fraser Mann, Robert Edgar, and Helen Pleasance. Equinox, Oct. 2026e. ISBN 9781800509184 $32.00

A Very Unusual Way: Maury Yeston and His Singular Path to Broadway and Beyond, by Joshua Rosenblum. SUNY, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9798855807615 $29.95

Vortex, Baba: Park Vibe Notebooks, by Gerald Majer, ed. by Tomas Montano. Hachure, Jul. 2026e. ISBN 9798993589411 $18.00

Women as Artists and Musicians in the Early Modern World, ed. by Eve Straussman-Pierce and Elizabeth Weinfield. Taylor & Francis, Aug. 2026e. ISBN 9781041107439 $190.00

The World of Cecil Taylor: Essays, Poetry, Photographs, and Interviews, ed. by Peter Valente. SUNY, Nov. 2026e. ISBN 9798855810141 $130.00

Yugoslav Avant-Garde Music, 1945–1991, by Laura Emmery. Cambridge, Jul. 2026e. ISBN 9781009767965 $45.00

Theater & Dance

Aesthetics of Displacement: Movement, Archives, and Performance in Contemporary Colombia, by Melissa Blanco Borelli. Michigan, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9780472058167 $34.95

An Alternative History of Shakespearean Acting: Contexts, Practices and Cultural Authority, ed. by Sally Barnden, Emer McHugh, and Miranda Fay Thomas. Bloomsbury Publishing, Nov. 2026. ISBN 9781350541962 $110.00

American Musicals in Historical Context: From the American Revolution to the 21st Century, by Thomas A. Greenfield. 2nd ed. Bloomsbury Publishing, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781350575851 $36.95

The Anatomy of Art: Unlocking the Creative Process for Theatre and Dance, by Alexandra Beller. Bloomsbury Publishing, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781350564183 $115.00

Applied Theatre Voice: Performance and Social Justice, ed. by Sarah Weston. Bloomsbury Publishing, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781350371439 $39.95

Beyond the Fourth Wall of War: Theater and Therapy for Embodied Trauma, by Elise R. Morrison. Michigan, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9780472058198 $39.95

Dance Movement Therapy, by Hilda Wengrower. Taylor & Francis, Sep. 2026e. ISBN 9781032633466 $170.00

Dance Ritual and Healing, by Lara Cahill-Booth. Taylor & Francis, Dec. 2026e. ISBN 9781032863290 $190.00

Dancing Presence, by Sarah Pini. Taylor & Francis, Jul. 2026e. ISBN 9781041241973 $190.00

Disobedient Women: Decolonial Movements of Afro-Queer Puerto Rican Artists, by Anastasia Valecce. Florida, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9781683406631 $110.00

Feeling Yellow: Asian Americans and Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Musical Theatre, by Donatella Galella. Michigan, Nov. 2026. ISBN 9780472058396 $34.95

Fictions of the Real: Synergies Between Screen and Stage in Argentine Performance, by Brenda Werth. Michigan, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9780472058204 $34.95

Habla! Speaking Bodies and Dancing Our América, by Jade Power-Sotomayor. NYU, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781479802067 $30.00

In the Horizontal Plane: Taisha Paggett Performance Works, by Jamie Shearn Coan, Taisha Paggett, and Tara Aisha Willis. Soberscove, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9781940190389 $40.00

Kabuki: Japan’s Mega-Theater, by Laurence R. Kominz. Bloomsbury Publishing, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781350526006 $90.00

Legal Moves: Choreographies of Race, Law, and Empire, by Anna Jayne Kimmel. Stanford, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781503646087 $70.00

Mama, Don’t You Weep: Black Motherhood, Performance, and the Costs of Grief, by Rhaisa Kameela Williams. NYU, Nov. 2026. ISBN 9781479841073 $30.00

The Methuen Drama Anthology of Native American Plays: Indigenous Spaces, ed. by Courtney Elkin Mohler and Christy Stanlake. Bloomsbury Publishing, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781350514539 $34.95

Nautanki: The Musical Theatre of North India, by Devendra Sharma. Bloomsbury Publishing, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781350296763 $39.95

Need/Emergency: Political Theater in Exigent Times, by Benjamin Lewis Robinson. Stanford, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781503647077 $32.00

On Closeness: Minoritarian Method and Forms of Relation, ed. by Olivia Michiko Gagnon. NYU, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9781479831067 $30.00

Performance and Real Relationships: Family, Kinship and Love in Contemporary Theatre, by Ildikó Rippel. Bloomsbury Publishing, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9781350448094 $115.00

Performance Beyond the Pale: Meditations on Art, Activism, and Bodies in Extremis, by James M. Harding. Michigan, Nov. 2026. ISBN 9780472058334 $39.95

Power and Greed: Monopolies, Mergers, and Cartels on the American Stage, by Spencer Weber Waller. Bloomsbury Publishing, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9781350578098 $32.95

Puppetry: A Backstage Guide, by Toby Olié. Bloomsbury Publishing, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781350437456 $12.95

Queen of Burlesque: Lydia Thompson and Her British Blondes, by Kurt Gänzl. 2nd ed. SUNY, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9798855808513 $130.00

Routledge Companion to World Theatre, ed. by Glenn Odom, Sukanya Chakrabarti, and Sola Adeyemi. Taylor & Francis, Dec. 2026e. ISBN 9781041035794 $280.00

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernist Dance, ed. by Allana C. Lindgren, Lynn Garafola, and Susan Manning. Taylor & Francis, Dec. 2026e. ISBN 9781138545533 $220.00

Shakespeare and His Religious Afterlives, by Marta Cerezo. Berghahn, Aug. 2026e. ISBN 9781836955924 $150.00

Shakespeare’s Counternarrative Against Death: Immortal Longings in His Plays and Poetry, by Toby Widdicombe. Berghahn, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781807580087 $135.00

Shakespeare’s Tragedies: What Makes Them Great, by Robert N. Nelson. Stanford, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9781503647572 $35.00

Sleep with Spectators: Feminist Performance and Practice, by Danielle Drees. University of Minnesota Press, Sep. 2026. ISBN 9781517918507 $28.00

Smaddification: Dance and Decolonization in Jamaica, by Amanda Michelle Reid. Duke, Nov. 2026e. ISBN 9781478034339 $104.95

Staging Visitation: Tourist Performances and Theatricalized Places, ed. by Bryan W. Schmidt and Weston Twardowski. Michigan, Aug. 2026. ISBN 9780472058150 $34.95

Theatre Things: Material Theories and Histories, ed. by Andrew Friedman and Eero Laine. Michigan, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9780472058266 $44.95

Women’s Wit on the Early Modern Stage, by Beth Cortese. Delaware, Oct. 2026. ISBN 9781644534373 $37.95