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Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture (Cultural Studies of the United States)

by Robert C. Allen

Published: 1991-05-27

Paperback: 382 pages

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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 United States in 1868, the result was...

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Brown Skin Showgirls: A black and white photographic collection of burlesque, exotic, shake and chorus line dancers, strippers and cross-dressers from ... Harlem in Havana Revue, 1936 to 1967

by Leslie Cunningham

Published: 2015-07-04

Paperback: 70 pages

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There are many art and entertainment resources that reference the contributions and important roles women of color play in shaping the art of dance in North America. However, it is rare to encounter a historically rich and visually stunning book that is dedicated solely to the brown skin showgirl or...

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The Burlesque Handbook

by Jo Weldon

Published: 2010-06-01

Perfect Paperback: 272 pages

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“Jo Weldon is the gold-standard for New Burlesque. I am proud to call her my friend, and unashamed to admit she’s my idol.” — Lily Burana, author of Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America From one of the stars of the New Burlesque scene, Jo Weldon, comes a definit...

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The Happy Stripper: Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque

by Jacki Willson

Published: 2007-12-15

Paperback: 176 pages

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If the burlesque stripper, with her bawdy spirit and unruly insubordination, has emerged for many as a new 'empowering' model for the sexually aware woman, then she also strikes horror in the heard of second wave feminism. Embodied by high profile artists such as Dita von Teese and Catheri...

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Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind

by Michelle Baldwin

Published: 2004-05-01

Paperback: 168 pages

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Though burlesque has survived in the back of our cultural consciousness after being pushed aside by modern stripping in the ’50s, the revival that began in the early ’90s has finally brought burlesque back to the forefront of popular culture.Evolving from an underground movement to a n...

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Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture

by Maria Elena Buszek

Published: 2006-05-31

Paperback: 464 pages

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Subverting stereotypical images of women, a new generation of feminist artists is remaking the pin-up, much as Annie Sprinkle, Cindy Sherman, and others did in the 1970s and 1980s. As shocking as contemporary feminist pin-ups are intended to be, perhaps more surprising is that the pin-up h...

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Tivoli

by Frank Van Straten

Published: 2003-10-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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Frank Van Straten recalls the Tivoli's best vaudeville, variety and review artists and all the behind- the-scenes drama. This flamboyant account of Australia's great theatrical past is full of evocative photographs and anecdotes that bring the whole era to life.

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Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America

by Leslie Zemeckis

Published: 2014-11-11

Paperback: 384 pages

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By the director of the hit documentary Behind the Burly Q comes the first ever oral history of American Burlesque--as told by the performers who lived it, often speaking out here for the first time. By telling the intimate and surprising stories from its golden age through the women (and m...

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Tempest Storm: The Lady Is a Vamp

by Tempest Storm, Bill Boyd

Published: 1987-10-01

Hardcover: 266 pages

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First Edition, 1987, first printing, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1, INSCRIBED and dated by the author on the first blank page: "To Bill Tait Love & Passion Tempest Storm 11/11/88", an otherwise like-new, apparently unread, hardly opened, unmarked hardcover, with a price-clipped, otherwise like-new dust jacket,...

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Denholm's Wife: A True Story

by Joyce Keating

Published: 2012-04-26

Paperback: 234 pages

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Susan Elliott was the American wife of British actor Denholm Elliott (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Trading Places, A Room with a View, etc.). This is a true story of the life they shared before each dying tragic deaths - his through AIDS, hers through a fire in their home. Though the pages are laced throughout...