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• Performing arts -- Anthropological aspects
• Performing arts -- Asia
• Performing arts -- Audiences
• Performing arts -- Biography
• Performing arts -- Caribbean Area
• Performing arts -- England
• Performing arts -- India
• Performing arts -- Japan
• Performing arts -- Kentucky
• Performing arts -- Law and legislation
• Performing arts -- Periodicals
• Performing arts -- Philosophy
• Performing arts -- Political aspects
• Performing arts -- Production and direction
• Performing arts -- Psychological aspects
• Performing arts -- Religious aspects
• Performing arts -- Social aspects
• Performing arts -- United States
• Performing arts -- Washington (D.C.)
• African Americans in the performing arts
• Black people in the performing arts
• Centers for the performing arts
• Dance
• Gay people and the performing arts
• Gay people in the performing arts
• Motion pictures
• One-person shows (Performing arts)
• Pageants
• Performing arts festivals
• Performing arts in literature
• Performing arts sponsorship
• Theater
• Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts
• Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts
• Strand, Paul, 1890-1976

• Show business

• Chronicles from Kashmir: An Annotated, Multimedia Script (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by Nandita Dinesh (multiple formats with video and commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2025), by Anita Gonzalez (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Shadowland (partial serial archives)
• Theatre Arts (partial serial archives)

• Theatre and War: Notes From the Field (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Nandita Dinesh (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)

• Chronicles from Kashmir: An Annotated, Multimedia Script (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by Nandita Dinesh (multiple formats with video and commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Harry Justin Elam and Kennell A. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Katie N. Johnson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c2022), by Zachary Price (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)

• American Clown: Athletic Dance for Men or Boys (second edition, 1927), by George Martin Caskey (frame-dependent page images at sc.edu)
• The Art of Dancing: Its Theory and Practice, by F. Leslie Clendenen (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Clendenen's Treatise on Elementary and Classical Dancing, by F. Leslie Clendenen (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Course of Instruction in Dancing and Aesthetic Development of the Body, by L. F. Segaldo (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dances of To-Day, by Albert W. Newman (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Danciad, by Thomas Wilson (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancing, As a Means of Physical Education, by Mrs. Alfred Webster (HTML and page images at LOC)
• How to Dance the Revived Ancient Dances, by Ardern Holt (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Lure of the Dance (Los Angeles: T. A. Faulkner, c1916), by Thomas A. Faulkner
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML and page images at LOC
• Public Dance Halls: Their Regulation and Place in the Recreation of Adolescents, by Ella Gardner (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Sketches Relative to the History and Theory, but More Especially to the Practice of Dancing, by Francis Peacock (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Social Dance, by R. A. Adams (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Stage and Fancy Dancing, by F. C. Nott (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Tango and Other Up-to-Date Dances, by J. S. Hopkins (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Terpsichorean Monitor, by William E. Greene (HTML and page images at LOC)
• "Tips to Dancers," Good Manners for Ballroom and Dance Hall, by Vivian Persis Dewey (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Dancing, by James P. Cassidy (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Treatise on the Use and Peculiar Advantages of Dancing and Exercises, Considered as a Means of Refinement and Physical Development, by Francis Mason (page images and partial HTML at LOC)
• Dancing at Home and Abroad, by C. H. Cleveland (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancing, Beauty, and Games (London: A. L. Humphreys, 1913), by Constance Stewart-Richardson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2012), by Sara Warner (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2007), ed. by Sharon R. Sherman and Mikel J. Koven (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Film Quarterly: Forty Years, A Selection (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), ed. by Brian Henderson, Ann Martin, and Lee Amazonas (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by M. B. Iampolskii, trans. by Harsha Ram (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Wonderful Inventions: Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress (Washington: The Library, 1985), ed. by Iris Newsom, contrib. by Erik Barnouw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plays, Movies, and Critics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by Jody McAuliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Movies From A.A.P.: Programs of Quality From Quality Studios (1957), by Associated Artists Productions (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Framing French Culture (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2015), ed. by Natalie Edwards, Ben McCann, and Peter Poiana (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• The Art of Cineplastics (Boston: Four Seas Co., 1923), by Élie Faure, trans. by Walter Pach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-23; also, Who's Who in the Movies, and the Yearbook of the American Screen (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1923), ed. by Robert E. Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Film: Seine Mittel, Seine Ziele (in German; Berlin: Schuster und Loeffler, 1921), by Urban Gad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Making the Movies (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1919), by Ernest A. Dench (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Novel and the Screen (New York: Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, ca. 1925), by Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• That Marvel, the Movie: A Glance at its Reckless Past, its Promising Present, and its Significant Future (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923), by Edward S. Van Zile, contrib. by Will H. Hays
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Behind the Screen (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Samuel Goldwyn
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Breaking Into the Movies (Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs and Co., c1921), by John Emerson and Anita Loos (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Radiomovies, Radiovision, Television (Washington: National Capital Press, c1929), by C. Francis Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Jill Dolan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Coming of the Mayflower: A Pilgrim Pageant (c1920), by Rosamond Kimball and Youth's Companion
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Making of South Carolina: A Historical Pageant, Presented by the Students of Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S.C., Friday, May 6, 1921, 2:00 P.M. (Rock Hill, SC: Record Printing, ca. 1921), by James Elliott Walmsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pageantry and the Pilgrim Tercentenary Celebration (1620-1920): With Sample Pilgrim Pageants, Suggestions for Programs, Bibliographies, etc., for the State of Utah (Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 1920), by B. Roland Lewis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Path of Progress: A Pageant Drama of the Nation (Memphis: Press of Early Printing Co., c1920), by Annah Robinson Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Scenes from Dreamland": or, "Christian and Christina's Journey", Arranged from "Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress" (New York: Hints Pub. Co., c1902), by Margaret Holmes Francisco, contrib. by John Bunyan (page images at HathiTrust)

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