Bibliography
Books
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- The Moving Body: Teaching Creative Theatre
- Jaques Lecoq
- Tragedy and Comedy
- Walter Kerr
- The Silent Clowns
- Walter Kerr
- The Tricks of the Trade
- Dario Fo
- The Commedia Dell’Arte
- Giacomo Oreglia
- The Italian Comedy
- Pierre Duchartre
- Pierrot
- Kay Dick
- Clowns - John Towson
- Charlie Chaplin’s One-Man Show
- Dan Kamin
- Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
- Keith Johnstone
- Impro for Storytellers
- Keith Johnstone
- Mime Spoken Here
- Tony Montanaro
- The Magic Way - Juan Tamariz
- The Five Points in Magic
- Juan Tamariz
- Now You See It, Now You Don’t!: Lessons in Sleight of Hand
- Bill Tarr
- Folding money fooling: How to make entertaining novelties from dollar bills
- Robert E. Neale
- Zen in the Art of Archery
- Eugen Herrigel
- Aikido in Daily Life - Koichi Tohei
- Book of Ki: Co-Ordinating Mind and Body in Daily Life
- Koichi Tohei
- The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation
- Ollie Johnston & Frank Thomas
- Too Funny for Words: Disney’s Greatest Sight Gags
- Ollie Johnston & Frank Thomas
- The Cartoon Guide to Physics
- Larry Gonick
Films
- Children of Paradise
- La Strada, Fellini
- Jaques Tati Films
- Sons of the Desert, Laurel and Hardy. Great collection of door gags.
- Life is Beautiful, R. Benigni
- Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection - 3-Disc Remastered Edition
Artists
- Buster Keaton
- Charlie Chaplin
- W. C. Fields
- Harry Langdon,
- Harold Lloyd
- Fatty Arbuckle
- Laurel and Hardy
- Victor Borge
- The Marx Brothers
- Woody Allen
Thanks to Ron Anglin for putting this list together.