Entertainment Book Genre – What’s the best definition for the entertainment genre? The entertainment book genre consists of something about the world of entertainment. The books from the entertainment genre can be about music, television, writing, drama, and/or dance – anything that holds an audience’s attention with the purpose to entertain.
The entertainment book genre can also be about what it takes to entertain; the books can be written by or about producers, musician, authors, actors, dancers, etc.
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Entertainment Book Genre – Examples
Review this list of popular examples to help you get a better understanding of the entertainment nonfiction genre.
1. Against Type: The Biography of Burt Lancaster by Gary Fishgall
2. All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from The Toxic Avenger by Lloyd Kaufman
3. Baby Doll: An Autobiography by Carroll Baker
4. Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home by Barbara Klinger
5. Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of A Century by Jean-Luc Godard
6. Claudette Colbert : An Illustrated Biography by Lawrence J. Quirk
7. Dietrich The Story Of A Starby Leslie Frewin
8. Fred Astaire: A Wonderful Life by Bill Adler
9. Goal Dust: The Warm And Candid Memoirs Of A Pioneer Black Athlete And Actor by Woody Strode
10. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
11. I’m with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie by Pamela Des Barres
12. Intermission by Anne Baxter
13. John Gielgud: An Actor’s Life by Gyles Brandreth
14. Life Is Too Short by Mickey Rooney
15. Make Your Own Damn Movie!: Secrets of a Renegade Director by Lloyd Kaufman
16. Nobody’s Fool: The Lives of Danny Kaye by Christopher Pike
17. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil
18. Scarlett O’Hara’s Younger Sister by Evelyn Keyes
19. Sunday Nights at Seven by Jack Benny
20. Susan Hayward, Portrait Of A Survivor by Beverly Linet
21. The Business of Media Distribution: Monetizing Film, TV and Video Content in an Online World by Jeffrey C. Ulin
22. The Dark Side Of Genius: The Life Of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spoto
23. The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney by Richard Schickel
24. The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx
25. The Secret Life Of Tyrone Power by Hector Arce
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Entertainment Book Genre – Related Book Genres
* Celebrity Nonfiction Book Genre
* General Nonfiction Book Genre
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