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1) The clowns
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's fascination with the circus and the surreal come to a head in one of his final masterpieces, The clowns. The film reflects Fellini's childhood obsession with clowns and begins with a young boy watching a circus set up from his bedroom window. Though comical and referred to as a "docu-comedy", this film explores deeper human conditions that resonate through the various clowns who vary from a local sex-crazed hobo, a midget nun, to a mutilated...
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Hot and hammered volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven't taken her seriously since. Frankly, she's over it. Georgie loves planning children's birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She's determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World... whatever that means. Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?)...
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Series
Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol volume 20
Publisher
Little Simon
Language
English
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Desmond and best friend Andres attend the town's birthday celebration with a petting farm, bumper cars, cotton candy machines, and ghosts, but mostly this Kersville Town Clown Extravaganza is full of creepy clowns of all kinds.
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Series
Farmer books volume 1
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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A wordless picture book in which a farmer rescues a baby clown who's bounced off the circus train, and reunites him with his clown family.
5) It: a novel
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Language
English
Description
"Can an entire city be haunted? The Losers' Club of 1958 seems to think so. After all, when they were teenagers back then, these seven friends who called the small New England metropolis of Derry their home had first-hand experience with what made this place so horribly different. Every twenty-seven years, something that has existed here for a very long time comes back to terrorize Derry, lurking in the city storm drains and sewers, taking the shape...
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English
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"Seventeen-year-old Noelle Layne knows horror. Every trope, every warning sign, every survival tactic. She even leads a successful movie club dedicated to the genre. Who better to throw the ultimate, most exclusive Halloween party on all of Long Island? With some of the top influencers in her school on the guest list, including gorgeous singer-songwriter Archer Mitchell, her popularity is bound to spike. She could really use the social boost for an...
8) Rodeo clown
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Series
Language
English
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"Engaging images accompany information about rodeo clowns. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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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...
10) Last laugh
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"What's scarier than a collection of clown dolls in a secret locked room? How about... those clown dolls coming to life. And hunting you down"--
12) Circus time!
Author
Series
Hotdog volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"Lizzie's joining the circus! Her sister Emma is a high-flying trapeze star, but Lizzie's TERRIFIED of heights! She's going to be a clown-the funniest around! Hot dog and Kev can't wait to see the show. Will everything go as planned?"--Page [4] of cover.
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English
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Jamie's tyres squealed to a halt. Standing in the glare of the headlights was an apparition dressed in a puffy shirt with a garish flower pattern It wore oversized red shoes, striped pants and white face paint. It stared at him with ungodly boggling eyes, then turned away...this seemingly random incident triggers a nightmarish chain of events as Jamie finds he is being stalked by a trio of gleefully sadistic clowns who deliver a terrifying ultimatum:...
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English
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Jamie is rebuilding his life after his previous escape from the Pilo Family Circus, with no memories of the circus besides the clown outfit in his cupboard. Far below, as the circus stirs back to life, Jamie finds himself filled with urges to be a clown again (making inappropriate jokes at work, an urge to put on his clown outfit, etc.). He also finds that his friends and family do not trust him, because of that night he was found by police in a clown...
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English
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This is the story of Maximilian Ophuls, America's counterterrorism chief, one of the makers of the modern world; his Kashmiri Muslim driver and subsequent killer, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown; Max's illegitimate daughter India; and a woman who links them, whose revelation finally explains them all. It is an epic narrative that moves from California to Kashmir, France, and England, and back to California again. Along the...
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Scaredy bat volume 2
Language
English
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"Ellie is a 12-year old vampire that loves solving mysteries, but is afraid of...everything.She's afraid of spiders, lakes, and loud noises to name a few. But with a little courage and help from her friends, Ellie just might achieve her dream of becoming a real detective. In this second book in the series, Ellie must overcome her fear of clowns (and hatred of garlic) to solve the mystery of the missing sunscreen ... before she ends up with permanent...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a loose set of cabaret pieces, Steffen Mensching and Hans-Eckardt Wenzel, highly acclaimed East German poets, songwriters and clowns satirize East German life in its final days and the arrival of new times after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Da-Da-R is a wordplay on the irreverent Dada art movement of the 1920s and the German acronym for East Germany -- the DDR. The clowns are allowed to leave prison to sing for people outside. As they perform their...
19) Terrifier
Publisher
Dread Central
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Based on a character from the cult anthology, All Hallows Eve, the gory 80's slasher throwback takes place on Halloween night as the demented Art the Clown sets his sights on terrorizing two girls and anyone else that gets in his way.
20) The circus
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A tramp fleeing the police takes refuge in a circus, becomes a clown by accident, and falls for an equestrienne.
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