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Inside Tap
by Anita Feldman  Publisher Comments Traditional and improvisational instruction for the beginner as well as new and innovative material for the intermediate and advanced dancer....
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Comedy (New Critical Idiom)
by Andrew Stott Publisher Comments What is comedy? Andrew Stott tackles this question through an investigation of comic forms, theories and techniques, tracing the historical definitions of comedy from Aristotle to Chris Morris's "Brass Eye" via Wilde and Hancock. Rather than attempting...
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The New Writing Comedy Step by Step: Revised and Updated with Words of Instruction, Encouragement, and Inspiration from Legends of the Comedy Professi
by Gene Perret Synopsis Three-time Emmy-award winner Gene Perret's Comedy Writing Step by Step has been the manual for humor writers for 24 years. With this, his first update, Perret offers readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy...
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Understanding Humor in Japan (Humor in Life and Letters)
by Jessica Milner (edt) Davis Publisher Comments For many Western students of Japanese culture and visitors to Japan, Japanese humor seems obscure, difficult to find, and perhaps even nonexistent. By bringing together scholarly insights and original research by both Japanese and non-Japanese experts...
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Where Will the Atheists Pray?: Life and Laughter in Israel
by William Finn Publisher Comments Bill Finn and his wife, Linda, spent six years living in Israel before returning to the U.S.with suitcases full of adventures that make up the tapestry of life in that ancient land. The book is cohesive, insightful and timely, and all his many...
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Humor in Young Adult Literature: A Time to Laugh: A Time to Laugh
by Walter Hogan Publisher Comments This examination of humorous young adult literature in light of adolescent developmental issues and theories of comedy reviews family situations, adventure stories, problem novels, satire, romance, and coming-of-age stories. Books, protagonists, and...
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Standup Comedy as Artistic Expression
by Andrea Prussing-hollowell Synopsis Despite the common memory of the 1950s being an intolerant, conformist decade in American history, many "underground" cultures developed and thrived in response to America's homogenized national culture. Lenny Bruce, the comedian, was immersed within...
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Kwaidan
by Lafcadio Hearn Synopsis Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Japan. He is especially well-known for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as...
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Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism
by Steven Connor Publisher Comments Ventriloquism, the art of "seeming to speak where one is not", speaks so resonantly to our contemporary technological condition. We now think nothing of hearing voices--our own and others'--propelled over intercoms, cellphones, and answering machines...
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Something Wonderful Right Away : an Oral History of the Second City and the Compass Players (87 Edition)
by Jeffrey Sweet Publisher Comments Prominent alumni (Mike Nichols, Joan Rivers, Robert Klein, among others) bring theatrical improvisation to life, with all the vitality, the power and the exuberance - the satire and spontaneity - that they made famous and that launched their careers. "An...
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Surrounded by Indians
by Mark Mattison Publisher Comments This is the humorous and poignant account of an American who lived in India for nine months. Encounters with sacred cows, New Delhi traffic, and a holy rat temple convey a sense of wonder at this ancient country and an appreciation for the quirks of...
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Black Comedians on Black Comedy: How African-Americans Taught Us to Laugh
by Dick Littleton Publisher Comments For almost four hundred years, black Americans have been entertaining the masses through humor, though many times inadvertently and often quite reluctantly. Starting on the slave ships of the Middle Passage through blackface, vaudeville, the chitlin...
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Stand & Deliver
by Andrew Clark Publisher Comments What makes Canadians so funny? No one is better qualified to answer that question than Canada's first full-time comedy columnist. Stand and Deliver features the inside stories of such famous Canadian comics as Jim Carrey, Sandra Shamas, the cast of...
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Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture (Cultural Studies of the United States)
by Robert C. Allen Publisher Comments Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial female troupe of "British Blondes" brought modern burlesque to the...
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Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza: And Other Misheard Lyrics
by Charles Grosvenor Publisher Comments We've all done it — misheard a song lyric and sung along with the wrong words for months or years before being corrected. Whether you heard "Even if you're Ted Danson in the dark," instead of "Even if we're just dancin' in the dark," or confused...
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Improv Comedy
by Andy Goldberg Publisher Comments This is improv comedy from top to bottom and from inside out. If you want to form an improv comedy workshop, sharpen your improvisational acting skills in a group setting, or simply study the subject on your own, Andy's well-thought-out text and...
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Performing Marginality: Humor, Gender, and Cultural Critique (Humor in Life and Letters)
by Joanne R. Gilbert Publisher Comments A rhetorical analysis of female stand-up comics that explores the relationships among humor, gender, and power in contemporary culture. How do contemporary American female comics perform onstage, and what does this performance revel about power relations...
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In Exile and Other Stories
by Mary Hallock Foote Synopsis Ruth Mary watched them with much interest, for travelers such as these seemed to be seldom came as far up Bear River valley as the Tullys' cattle range. The visitors who came to them were mostly cow-boys looking up stray cattle, or miners on their way to...
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The Foolish Dictionary
by Gideon Wurdz Publisher Comments LOBSTER The edible lobster is found off the New England Coast. The two-legged species is found everywhere. All kinds are green, but when roasted turn a bright red. Soubrettes are very dependent on both varieties for a living; together they furnish her...
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Writing Television Comedy (99 Edition)
by Jerry Rannow Publisher Comments How to "jump start your funny bone" is the theme of this humorous, eye opening guide to conceiving, writing, and marketing a winning TV sitcom....
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