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Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, and the Golden Age of Hollywood
- By: Melanie Gall
- Narrated by: Melanie Gall
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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The 1930s was a magical age in Hollywood, with Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney, Bette Davis, and Clark Gable lighting up the silver screen. But Deanna Durbin’s fame surpassed them all. Born in Canada, Deanna was “discovered” by star-maker Eddie Cantor, producer Joe Pasternak, and director Henry Koster, and she quickly became the world’s most celebrated star. She saved Universal Studios from ruin, she was a favorite of Winston Churchill and Anne Frank, and she became the highest-paid woman in America.
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Fab
- By Linda T on 26-12-23
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Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, and the Golden Age of Hollywood
- Narrated by: Melanie Gall
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
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#WWE: Professional Wrestling in the Digital Age
- The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
- By: Dru Jeffries
- Narrated by: Robert Eckrich
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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The millions of fans who watch World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) programs each year are well aware of their role in building the narrative of the sport. #WWE: Professional Wrestling in the Digital Age explores the intersections between media, technology, and fandom in WWE's contemporary programming and business practices. In the Reality Era of WWE (2011 to the present), wrestling narratives have increasingly drawn on real-life personalities and events that stretch beyond the story-world created and maintained by WWE.
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#WWE: Professional Wrestling in the Digital Age
- The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
- Narrated by: Robert Eckrich
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 04-11-20
- Language: English
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The World Is Yours
- The Story of Scarface
- By: Glenn Kenny
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The behind-the-scenes story of the iconic film, featuring new interviews with the cast and crew. An unflinching confrontation of humanity’s dark side, Brian De Palma’s crime drama film Scarface gave rise to a cultural revolution upon its release in 1983. Its impact was unprecedented, making...
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Pretty bland…
- By Jay on 09-07-24
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The World Is Yours
- The Story of Scarface
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 07-05-24
- Language: English
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Lucas
- His Hollywood Legacy
- By: Richard Ravalli - Edited by
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy is the first collection to bring a sustained scholarly perspective to the iconic filmmaker and his legacy beyond the Star Wars films. Edited by Richard Ravalli, this volume analyzes Lucas's overall contribution and importance to the film industry, diving deep into his use and development of modern special effects technologies, the history of his Skywalker Ranch production facilities, and more.
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Lucas
- His Hollywood Legacy
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 14-04-24
- Language: English
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Primetime Propaganda
- The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV
- By: Ben Shapiro
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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“Vitally important, devastatingly thorough, and shockingly revealing…. After reading Primetime Propaganda, you’ll never watch TV the same way again.” — Mark Levin Movie critic Michael Medved calls Ben Shapiro, “One of our most refreshing and insightful voices on the popular culture...
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Primetime Propaganda
- The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 25-04-23
- Language: English
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Susie Bright's Erotic Screen
- The Golden Hardcore & the Shimmering Dyke-Core (The Erotic Screen, Book 1)
- By: Susie Bright
- Narrated by: Susie Bright
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Susie Bright, “The Pauline Kael of Porn” (SF Chronicle), rips open the history of erotic cinema before the internet— from the Golden Age of lavish 35mm hardcore, to the video-inspired “Porno Spring”, initiated by none other than punk, feminist, and lesbian video-makers.
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Susie Bright's Erotic Screen
- The Golden Hardcore & the Shimmering Dyke-Core (The Erotic Screen, Book 1)
- Narrated by: Susie Bright
- Series: The Erotic Screen, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-11-22
- Language: English
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Bachelor Nation
- Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure
- By: Amy Kaufman
- Narrated by: Amy Kaufman
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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*A New York Times Bestseller* The first definitive, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes cultural history of the Bachelor franchise, America’s favorite guilty pleasure. For sixteen years and thirty-six seasons, the Bachelor franchise has been a mainstay in American TV viewers’ lives. Since it...
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Cool read
- By Camilla Luise on 17-12-20
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Bachelor Nation
- Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure
- Narrated by: Amy Kaufman
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-03-18
- Language: English
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Monty Python vs the World
- How Monty Python Accidentally Changed the World
- By: Jim Yoakum
- Narrated by: Jake Sanson
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook, unlike any other about the team or series, was created with full access to Graham Chapman's private papers, scripts, and letters, thus allowing the author to explore some age-old myths, clear up some age-old debates, and give a rare insight into the making of a team and a series. This audiobook gives the reader knowledge about previously unknown information and trivia - much of which didn't appear in even Python's own book of the troupe - as well as the ability to hear actual unseen letters sent to the team by the BBC, and others.
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Monty Python vs the World
- How Monty Python Accidentally Changed the World
- Narrated by: Jake Sanson
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 17-05-18
- Language: English
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Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg
- The Whole Equation
- By: Kenneth Turan
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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One was a tough junkman's son, the other a cosseted mama's boy, but they dreamed the same mighty dream: that the right movies could make a profit and change both the culture and individual lives. Sharing a religion and an evangelical zeal for film, Louis B. Mayer (1884-1957) and Irving Thalberg (1899-1936) were unlikely partners in one of the most significant collaborations in movie history. Over the course of their decade-long relationship, as key players at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and major players in Hollywood, they joined forces in redefining and mastering the template for the film industry.
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Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg
- The Whole Equation
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 25-02-25
- Language: English
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Black Panther
- Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon
- By: Terence McSweeney
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Black Panther is one of the most financially successful and culturally impactful films to emerge from the American film industry in recent years. When it was released in 2018 it broke numerous records and resonated with audiences all around the world. In Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon, author Terence McSweeney explores the film from a diverse range of perspectives, seeing it as not only a comic book adaptation and a superhero film, but also a dynamic contribution to the discourse of both African and African American studies.
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Black Panther
- Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 14-06-22
- Language: English
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Popcorn Disabilities
- The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies
- By: Kristen Lopez, Ben Mankiewicz - foreword
- Narrated by: Francine Brody
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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You can learn a lot from the movies—about sex and relationships, about business, about history. Sure, there’s a fair amount of fantasy, wish fulfillment, and glorious hair to exaggerate everything, but for better or for worse, films remain one of the most important ways that viewers around the world learn about other people and cultures. And almost since the dawn of the medium, movies have shaped the public’s understanding of and assumptions about disability.
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Popcorn Disabilities
- The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies
- Narrated by: Francine Brody
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 27-11-25
- Language: English
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Wayne and Ford
- The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero
- By: Nancy Schoenberger
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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John Ford and John Wayne, two titans of classic film, made some of the most enduring movies of all time. The genre they defined—the Western—and the heroic archetype they built still matter today. For more than twenty years John Ford and John Wayne were a blockbuster Hollywood team...
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Wayne and Ford
- The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 24-10-17
- Language: English
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I Should Have Been at Work
- By: Des Lynam
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Abridged
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One of the most sought-after celebrity titles of recent years, Des Lynam’s autobiography gives a frank and opinionated insight into the man behind the myth. Famously guarded about his private life, Des sets the record straight on all the stories that have been written about him, giving a...
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Don't Bother
- By Angela on 04-02-13
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I Should Have Been at Work
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 11-01-06
- Language: English
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Splatter Capital
- By: Mark Steven
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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Splatter Capital shows how a subgenre of cinematic horror has developed a unique perspective on the cycles of capitalism. It argues that the messy brand of horror mobilized in gore or "splatter" films is extremely responsive to the internal contradictions that threaten the future sustainability of capitalist accumulation. And, while responding to the prospect of that end, splatter promotes an extant truth: capitalist accumulation is and always has been a nightmare of systematized bloodshed.
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gore-tastic book on Horror and socialism.
- By isaac kneebone-hopkins on 31-03-21
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Splatter Capital
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 16-03-17
- Language: English
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What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
- A Portrait of an Independent Career
- By: Joseph McBride
- Narrated by: Bill Nevitt
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
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In this intimate and often surprising personal portrait, Joseph McBride challenges the conventional wisdom that Welles' career after Citizen Kane, widely regarded as the greatest film ever made, fell into a long decline. The author shows instead how Welles never stopped directing radical, adventurous films and was always breaking new artistic ground as a filmmaker. McBride is the first author to provide a comprehensive examination of the films of Welles's artistically rich yet widely misunderstood later period in the United States (1970–1985).
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Interesting discourse by Welles associate but
- By Deborah H on 04-11-24
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What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
- A Portrait of an Independent Career
- Narrated by: Bill Nevitt
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 20-09-22
- Language: English
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Five Came Back
- A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
- By: Mark Harris
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Now a Netflix Original Series, featuring interviews with Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and Guillermo del Toro. Before the Second World War, the Hollywood box office was booming, but the business was accused of being too foreign, too Jewish, too 'un-American'. Then the war changed everything. With Pearl Harbor came the opportunity for Hollywood to prove its critics wrong. America's most legendary directors played a huge role in the war effort: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra....
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A rich history of Hollywood and WW2
- By the-goblin on 14-12-23
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Five Came Back
- A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 26-10-17
- Language: English
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Married… With Children vs. the World
- The Inside Story of the Shock-Com That Launched FOX and Changed TV Comedy Forever
- By: Richard Gurman
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Married . . . With Children writer-producer Richard Gurman takes us behind the scenes of this boundary-breaking show to reveal how its inner workings were at times as disruptive and contentious—yet at other times, as hysterical and raunchy—as the Bundy family themselves.
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Married… With Children vs. the World
- The Inside Story of the Shock-Com That Launched FOX and Changed TV Comedy Forever
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 23-07-24
- Language: English
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The Science of Star Trek
- Star Talk Radio
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 52 mins
- Original Recording
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The Star Trek TV and movie series imagine a bright future for humans in space, one in which we explore alien worlds with the aid of advanced technology. Because the writers tried to include as much realistic science as possible within the fictional framework, the stories have been an inspiration for students, scientists, inventors, and anyone interested in pondering our destiny on Earth and beyond. In this show, Brandon Fibbs reviews a Star Trek movie, and Lawrence Krauss talks about how Star Trek uses science to explore what is possible in our universe.
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The Science of Star Trek
- Star Talk Radio
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 52 mins
- Release date: 30-07-21
- Language: English
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I'm Your Huckleberry
- A Memoir
- By: Val Kilmer
- Narrated by: Will Forte, George Newbern, Mare Winningham
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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In this New York Times bestseller, legendary actor and star of the acclaimed documentary Val shares the stories behind his most beloved roles, reminisces about his star-studded career and love life, and reveals the truth behind his recent health struggles in a remarkably candid autobiography...
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I'm Your Huckleberry
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Will Forte, George Newbern, Mare Winningham
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 21-04-20
- Language: English
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A Short History of Film (Fourth Edition)
- By: Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
- Narrated by: David Bendena
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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This updated and expanded edition of A Short History of Film provides an accessible overview of the major movements, directors, studios, and genres from the 1880s to the present. Succinct yet comprehensive, this edition provides new information on contemporary horror, comic book, and franchise films; issues surrounding women and minority filmmakers; the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on movies worldwide; the shift from film to digital production; the rising use of artificial intelligence in cinema; and the impact of streaming on the industry.
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A Short History of Film (Fourth Edition)
- Narrated by: David Bendena
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 30-12-25
- Language: English
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