Class Clown
Class Clown

Author: Johanna Hurwitz

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1987-05-29

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 0688067239

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"Once again Hurwitz exhibits her talent for creating characters who talk, act, and think just like real kids. Realistic dialogue . . . and commonplace situations that sparkle with humor combine to make this a fine choice".--School Library Journal. Illustrated. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Discovering Your Inner Clown
Discovering Your Inner Clown

Author: L. B. Wilshere-Cumming

Publisher: L.B Wilshere-Cumming Prods

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780646490601

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A fantastic, innovative, hilarious new book featuring a contribution from legendary entertainer, comedian Jerry Lewis! Finally, there is a practical, inexpensive, enjoyable solution to healing your chronic pain without using all those annoying potions and lotions! Weep no more and get ready to take your punch line pills. This extraordinary book shows you how your 'funny bones' eliminate the pain in all your other bones! It covers a broad range of pain-relieving topics such as: improving your sex life; bettering your partnerships; raising happy kids; enhancing your self-esteem; controlling your anger; winning at work, and much more -- in an easy-going, highly readable, amusing way. The author is a comedian/psychotherapist who is a survivor of numerous life-threatening illnesses (i.e., tumours, meningitis, spinal and neck injuries) and she is a vigorous campaigner for progressive chronic pain research and treatment. She puts her pain management thoughts across with switched on jeu d'esprit and swinging, relaxed fun. The book makes managing your chronic pain a blast and even the legendary comedian/entertainer Jerry Lewis agrees! He liked the idea so much that he contributed! So yes, it is true: `Discovering Your Inner Clown,' can help you to cope more effectively with chronic pain! This small book with a big font will make you smile your way to becoming a stronger, healthier, happier person: guaranteed.

Clown Girl
Clown Girl

Author: Monica Drake

Publisher: Hawthorne Books

Published: 2010-08-24

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0979018889

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Clown Girl lives in Baloneytown, a seedy neighborhood where drugs, balloon animals, and even rubber chickens contribute to the local currency. Against a backdrop of petty crime, she struggles to live her dreams, calling on cultural masters Charlie Chaplin, Kafka, and da Vinci for inspiration. In an effort to support herself and her layabout performance-artist boyfriend, Clown Girl finds herself unwittingly transformed into a "corporate clown," trapping herself in a cycle of meaningless, high-paid gigs that veer dangerously close to prostitution. Monica Drake has created a novel that riffs on the high comedy of early film stars — most notably Chaplin and W. C. Fields — to raise questions of class, gender, economics, and prejudice. Resisting easy classification, this debut novel blends the bizarre, the humorous, and the gritty with stunning skill.

Clowns
Clowns

Author: Ezra LeBank

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-04-10

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 131751694X

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Clowns: In Conversation with Modern Masters is a groundbreaking collection of conversations with 20 of the greatest clowns on earth. In discussion with clown aficionados Ezra LeBank and David Bridel, these legends of comedy reveal the origins, inspirations, techniques, and philosophies that underpin their remarkable odysseys. Featuring incomparable artists, including Slava Polunin, Bill Irwin, David Shiner, Oleg Popov, Dimitri, Nola Rae, and many more, Clowns is a unique and definitive study on the art of clowning. In Clowns, these 20 master artists speak candidly about their first encounters with clowning and circus, the crucial decisions that carved out the foundations of their style, and the role of teachers and mentors who shaped their development. Follow the twists and turns that changed the direction of their art and careers, explore the role of failure and originality in their lives and performances, and examine the development and evolution of the signature routines that became each clown’s trademark. The discussions culminate in meditations on the role of clowning in the modern world, as these great practitioners share their perspectives on the mysterious, elusive art of the clown.

Clown
Clown

Author: Jon Davison

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-03-27

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1137300752

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This rich collection of readings offers a wide-ranging and authoritative survey of clown practices, history and theory, from the origins of the word clown through to contemporary clowning. Covering clowns in theatre, circus, cinema, TV, street and elsewhere, the author's stimulating narrative challenges assumptions and turns orthodoxy on its head.

Clown in a Cornfield
Clown in a Cornfield

Author: Adam Cesare

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0062854615

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Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel In Adam Cesare’s terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress—that just may cost her life. Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don’t know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can. Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. It’s a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there now. YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults Nominee

Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre
Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre

Author: Richard Preiss

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-03-06

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1107036577

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Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study of how the ever-popular stage clown shaped early modern playhouse theatre.