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Performing Arts
Explore performing arts books about theater, film, dance, acting, music performance, stagecraft, and entertainment history. Find titles for students, performers, teachers, fans, and readers who love live and screen performance.
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Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema
Puppet Master Complete: A Franchise History
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The Little Book of Cult, Sci-Fi, and Horror Movie Trivia
The Haunted House on Film: An Historical Analysis
After "Happily Ever After": Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age
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Shemp!: The Biography of the Three Stooges' Shemp Howard, the Face of Film Comedy
The Andy Clyde Columbia Comedies
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Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy
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The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
Cinema of Ettore Scola
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50 Things Better Than Sex
Fat on Film: Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
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Laurel en Hardy in Animatie
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The Art of How to Train Your Dragon
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The Joe E. Brown Films (hardback)
The Comedy Studies Reader
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Mean Girls: You're So Fetch: A Fill-In Book
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Clueless: You're a Total Betty: A Fill-In Book
The Ritz Brothers: The Films, Television Shows and Other Career Highlights of the Famous Comedy Trio
After "Happily Ever After": Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age
The Hal Roach Comedy Shorts of Thelma Todd, ZaSu Pitts and Patsy Kelly
Too Funny for Words: A Contrarian History of American Screen Comedy from Silent Slapstick to Screwball
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The Silent Movies of W. C. Fields: How They Created The Basis for His Fame in Sound Films
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