The Best Arts & Entertainment Books 2024

Updated On September 11th, 2022

Looking for the best Arts & Entertainment Books? You aren't short of choices in 2022. The difficult bit is deciding the best Arts & Entertainment Books for you, but luckily that's where we can help. Based on testing out in the field with reviews, sells etc, we've created this ranked list of the finest Arts & Entertainment Books.

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Limelight: Harpo Speaks! (Paperback)

Limelight: Harpo Speaks! (Paperback)

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Limelight: In and Out of Character (Paperback)

Limelight: In and Out of Character (Paperback)

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Story and Discourse (Paperback)

Story and Discourse (Paperback)

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Songs of Irving Berlin: Irving Berlin - Movie Songs (Paperback)

Songs of Irving Berlin: Irving Berlin - Movie Songs (Paperback)

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Paperback)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Paperback)

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Duotones, Tritones, and Quadtones : A Complete Visual Guide to Enhancing Two-, Three-, and Four-Color Images

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Home Remodeling for Dummies

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Film Flubs, the Sequel (Paperback) by Bill Givens

Film Flubs, the Sequel (Paperback) by Bill Givens

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Maverick Marine-Pa (Paperback)

Maverick Marine-Pa (Paperback)

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Hard Boiled : Great Lines from Classic Noir Films (Paperback)

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1. Limelight: Harpo Speaks! (Paperback)

Limelight: Harpo Speaks! (Paperback)
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HARPO SPEAKS PB

“This is a riotous story which is reasonably mad and as accurate as a Marx brother can make it. Despite only a year and a half of schooling, Harpo, or perhaps his collaborator, is the best writer of the Marx Brother. Highly recommended.” –Library Journal “A funny, affectionate and unpretentious autobiography done with a sharply professional assist from Rowland Barber.” –New York Times Book Review

2. Limelight: In and Out of Character (Paperback)

Limelight: In and Out of Character (Paperback)
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IN AND OUT OF CHARACTER PB

“Basil Rathbone's book about himself...is better written than most books by or about actors and is more intellectually vigorous...Sherlock Holmes fans will be much interested in his remarks on the character with whom he has been so closely identified.” –Library Journal “Quite naturally full of memories, full of names, full of glimpses of stars of stage and screen of yesterday and today.” –New York Times Book Review

3. Story and Discourse (Paperback)

Story and Discourse (Paperback)
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"For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story--whatever the medium. Chatman, whose approach here is at once dualist and structuralist, divides his subject into the 'what' of the narrative (Story) and the 'way' (Discourse)... Chatman's command of his material is impressive."--Library Journal

Story and Discourse (Paperback)

4. Songs of Irving Berlin: Irving Berlin - Movie Songs (Paperback)

Songs of Irving Berlin: Irving Berlin - Movie Songs (Paperback)
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(P/V/G Composer Collection). 30 songs from some of the most-loved movies ever. Songs include: Be Careful, It's My Heart * Easter Parade * Happy Holiday * Cheek to Cheek * Sisters * Top Hat, White Tie and Tails * White Christmas * and more.

Songs of Irving Berlin: Irving Berlin - Movie Songs (Paperback)

5. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Paperback)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Paperback)
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). A stunning songbook featuring 10 songs from the movie and full-color artwork throughout. Includes the songs: The Bells of Notre Dame * Out There * God Help the Outcasts * Someday * and more.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Paperback)

6. Duotones, Tritones, and Quadtones : A Complete Visual Guide to Enhancing Two-, Three-, and Four-Color Images

Duotones, Tritones, and Quadtones : A Complete Visual Guide to Enhancing Two-, Three-, and Four-Color Images
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CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket may not be included, minimal wear to binding, most of the pages undamaged(e.g., minimal creases or tears), highlighting / underlining acceptable on books as long as the text is readable and markings are not excessive, no missing pages. May be a former library book, with usual treatments(e.g., mylar covers, call stickers, stamps, card pockets, barcodes, or remainder marks). Extra components, such as CDs, DVDs, figurines, or access codes are not included. ISBN: 9780811814263 ISBN10: 0811814262 Contributors: Clark, Nick,

Duotones, Tritones, and Quadtones takes the guesswork out of using multiple colors for image reproduction. With over five hundred color illustrations, this book gives you the tools you need to specify and choose between hundreds of color combinations. For reference and inspiration, this is a book designers will turn to again and again.

7. Home Remodeling for Dummies

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This handy guide shows men and women of all ages how to handle remodeling projects with ease and still stay under budget. Included are more than 100 two-color illustrated, step-by-step instructions.

9780764550881. Pre-owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 398. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 398 p. Contains: Illustrations. For Dummies. This handy guide shows men and women of all ages how to handle remodeling projects with ease and still stay under budget. Included are more than 100 two-color illustrated, step-by-step instructions.

8. Film Flubs, the Sequel (Paperback) by Bill Givens

Film Flubs, the Sequel (Paperback) by Bill Givens
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Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 159. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 159 p. Film Flubs was a staggering success. Son of Film Flubs provided even more laughs. Now Bill Givens is back again with his third venture into the realm of unintentional mistakes that appear in finished movies. In addition to ribbing the classics and today's favorite films, Film Flubs, The Sequel even points a finger at "blunderful" television shows. Photographs throughout.

Film Flubs, the Sequel (Paperback) by Bill Givens

9. Maverick Marine-Pa (Paperback)

Maverick Marine-Pa (Paperback)
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" Smedley Butler's life and career epitomize the contradictory nature of American military policy through the first part of this century. Butler won renown as a Marine battlefield hero, campaigning in most of America's foreign military expeditions from 1898 to the late 1920s. He became the leading national advocate for paramilitary police reform. Upon his retirement, however, he renounced war and imperialism and devoted his energy and prestige to various dissident and leftist political causes.

Maverick Marine-Pa (Paperback)

10. Hard Boiled : Great Lines from Classic Noir Films (Paperback)

Hard Boiled : Great Lines from Classic Noir Films (Paperback)
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In the cult, crime, and noir films of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, everyone was supremely eloquent. Now contemporary fans of these classics can be equally clever with this inspired collection of more than 300 lines from nearly 150 of the greatest noir movies ever produced. Includes 71 reproductions of publicity photos, promotional posters, and film stills, many in full color. The boss chewed you out? Try this: I've met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my time, but you -- you're twenty minutes (Jan Sterling in The Big Carnival). How about something for that special moment? I felt pretty good -- like an amputated leg (Dick Powell in Murder, My Sweet). In the cult, crime, and noir films of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, everyone was supremely eloquent. Now contemporary fans of these classics can be equally clever with this inspired collection of over 300 lines from nearly 150 of the greatest noir movies ever produced. With full-color reproductions of publicity photos, promotional posters, and film stills, Hard-Boiled is a glamorous look back at the golden era of film noir.

The film was noir and the dialogue was black - blacker than a doll in mourning, blacker than Mildred Pierce's steaming hot java, blacker than the seam up the back of Marlene Dietrich's leg. In the cult, crime, and noir films of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, everyone was supremely eloquent. Now you, too, can be infinitely clever with Hard-Boiled: Great Lines from Classic Noir Films, a collection of over 300 lines from nearly 150 of the wickedest films, from Casablanca to Born to Kill and The Big Heat. Need something romantic to woo your gal? "If there's anything I don't like, it's a smart-cracking dame". (Jack Palance in Panic in the Streets.) Something to prove to the cops that you're not a thug? "Me? I didn't do nothin'. I didn't kill anyone. I just drove away with the body". (Zero Mostel in The Enforcer). The boss chewed you out? Try this: "I've met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my time, but you - you're twenty minutes". (Jan Sterling in The Big Carnival). How about something for that special moment? "I felt pretty good - like an amputated leg". (Dick Powell in Murder, My Sweet). The most luridly fascinating characters say the most outrageous things - and now you can read them all in black and white. With full-color reproductions of publicity photos, promotional posters, and film stills, Hard-Boiled is a glamorous and handy round-up of the unrestrained words of the drifters and dreamers, lovers and killers whose lives are the stuff of film noir.


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