Burlesque


Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese
The Burlesque Handbook
Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens
American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture
Burlesque and the New Bump-N-Grind
Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America
Burlesque: A Living History
The Queens of Burlesque: Vintage Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s
Gypsy: A Memoir
Burlesque Poster Design: The Art of Tease
Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique
The Happy Stripper: Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque
The Bare Truth: Stars of Burlesque from the '40s and '50s
Burlesque: Legendary Stars of the Stage
A Tempest Soul by Oliver PhippsThe Everyday Dancer by Deborah BullBlood Memory by Martha GrahamDance with Me by Luanne RiceTo Dance by Siena Cherson Siegel
Dance both fiction and non fiction
209 books — 12 voters
Kustom Kamera by Yahya El-DroubieKustom Kulture by Ron TurnerKustom Graphics by Julian BalmeKustom Graphics 2 by Art ChantryTiki Mugs by Jay Strongman
Kustom Kulture
19 books — 4 voters

Ultimate Burlesque by Alyson FixterBehind the Burly Q by Leslie ZemeckisLysistrata by AristophanesBurlesque Poster Design by Chaz RoyalBurlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of th... by Dita Von Teese
Books About Burlesque
12 books — 2 voters
True Love and Other Disasters by Rachel GibsonStripped by Jasinda WilderRock Hard by Olivia CunningLover Undercover by Samanthe BeckSeize Me by Crystal Spears
Shimmy: Strippers in Romance
118 books — 26 voters


Dita Von Teese
The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female figures are used to artistic advantage in tableaux. They do not move. ...more
Dita Von Teese, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese

Dita Von Teese
The new acts' major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. With their big blonde hair, ample breasts, and highly fertile hips, these bombshells inspired women everywhere to exxagerate their own voluptuousness. ...more
Dita Von Teese, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese

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