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Transatlantic Television Drama
- Industries, Programs, and Fans
- By: Matt Hills - editor, Michele Hilmes - editor, Roberta Pearson - editor
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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In 2014, the UK science-fiction television series Black Mirror was released on Netflix worldwide, quickly becoming a hit with US audiences. Like other beloved British imports, this series piqued Americans' interest with hints of dark comedy, clever plotlines, and six-episode seasons that left audiences frantic for more. In Transatlantic Television Drama, volume editors Michele Hilmes, Matt Hills, and Roberta Pearson team up with leading scholars in TV studies and transnational television to look at how dramas like Black Mirror captivate US audiences....
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Transatlantic Television Drama
- Industries, Programs, and Fans
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 06-02-19
- Language: English
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The Warner Brothers
- By: Chris Yogerst
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
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Warner Bros. Studio is best known as a media conglomerate with a broad range of intellectual property, spanning movies, TV shows, and streaming content. Despite popular interest in the origins of this empire, the core of the Warner Bros. saga cannot be found in its commercial successes. It is the story of four brothers—Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack—whose vision for Hollywood helped shape the world of entertainment.
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The Warner Brothers
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 12-09-23
- Language: English
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Chaplin's Vintage Year
- The History of the Mutual-Chaplin Specials
- By: Michael J. Hayde
- Narrated by: Nat Segaloff
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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When Charles Chaplin signed a record-setting contract with the Mutual Film Corporation in February 1916, it was the culmination of events that changed the motion picture business. Mutual's founders redefined how films were bought, sold, and distributed. Chaplin redefined screen comedy with a character that leapt into the hearts of moviegoers around the world. Together they established the value of star power and created 12 magnificent comedies that have endured for generations.
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Chaplin's Vintage Year
- The History of the Mutual-Chaplin Specials
- Narrated by: Nat Segaloff
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 01-08-17
- Language: English
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A Sudden Flicker of Light
- A Revisionist History of Movies
- By: David Thomson
- Narrated by: Aden Hakimi
- Length: 12 hrs
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From one of cinema’s wisest and most penetrating observers, an arresting new perspective on the sweep of film history. David Thomson has been called “the greatest living writer on the movies.” Here is a career capstone of sorts—a one-volume history of film and screens as illuminating and...
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A Sudden Flicker of Light
- A Revisionist History of Movies
- Narrated by: Aden Hakimi
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 07-07-26
- Language: English
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No Daylight in That Face
- Adventures in Film Noir
- By: Barry Gifford
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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With a connoisseur's insight and an offbeat sensitivity perfectly tailored to his subjects, Gifford's brief essays cover a hundred of the noir buff's favorites. His highly polished impressions take the listener through five decades of noir to find both the heart and the art of the plotline.
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No Daylight in That Face
- Adventures in Film Noir
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Music for Prime Time
- A History of American Television Themes and Scoring
- By: Jon Burlingame
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
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Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or critics. Catchy TV themes, often for popular weekly series, were fondly remembered but not considered much more culturally significant than commercial jingles. Yet noted composers like John Williams, Henry Mancini, and Jerry Goldsmith learned and/or honed their craft in television before going on to major success in feature films.
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Music for Prime Time
- A History of American Television Themes and Scoring
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 28-03-23
- Language: English
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The Fresh Prince Project
- How the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Remixed America
- By: Chris Palmer
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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This “one-of-a-kind” (Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author) cultural history of the beloved nineties sitcom that launched Will Smith to superstardom—The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air—is perfect for fans of Seinfeldia and Best Wishes, Warmest Regards. More than thirty years have...
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The Fresh Prince Project
- How the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Remixed America
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 31-01-23
- Language: English
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British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Sean Connery
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: John McBride
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Perhaps no actor has been able to retain their popularity into old age as well as Sean Connery. Despite retiring in 2006, Connery remains a venerable figure who continues to receive accolades for his handsome virility and status within the Hollywood elite. onsidering his personal acclaim as an actor, it is perhaps surprising that despite his status, most of the films in which Connery has appeared are not particularly acclaimed. Even the James Bond franchise initially received a largely lukewarm critical reception.
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British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Sean Connery
- Narrated by: John McBride
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 26-05-15
- Language: English
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Charlie Chan
- The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
- By: Yunte Huang
- Narrated by: Alfred Gingold
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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Yunte Huang ingeniously traces Charlie Chan from his real beginnings as a bullwhip-wielding detective in territorial Hawaii to his reinvention as a literary sleuth and Hollywood film icon. Huang finally resurrects the "honorable detective" from the graveyard of detested postmodern symbols and reclaims him as the embodiment of America’s rich cultural diversity. The result is one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year and a "deeply personal...voyage into racial stereotyping and the humanizing force of storytelling" (Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times).
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Very PC
- By S Wood on 23-01-15
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Charlie Chan
- The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
- Narrated by: Alfred Gingold
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 27-06-13
- Language: English
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Una peli por semana [One Movie a Week]
- 52 películas para entrarle al mundo del cine [52 Films to Enter the World of Cinema]
- By: Jesús Iglesias
- Narrated by: Jesús Iglesias
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Una peli por semana es un libro de introducción al cine que te propone 52 filmes para ver y analizar a lo largo de un año. Una selección realizada por Jesús Iglesias, autor de la popular cuenta de crítica cinematográfica La peli de la semana, para que cada mes puedas elegir de cuatro a seis filmes, cada uno ampliamente comentado y repleto de datos que saciarán tu ambición cinéfila.
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Una peli por semana [One Movie a Week]
- 52 películas para entrarle al mundo del cine [52 Films to Enter the World of Cinema]
- Narrated by: Jesús Iglesias
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 10-10-24
- Language: Spanish
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I Am (Not) a Number
- Decoding the Prisoner
- By: Alex Cox
- Narrated by: Alex Cox
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The enormously puzzling TV series The Prisoner has developed a rapt cult following, and has often been described as "surreal" or "Kafkaesque." Alex Cox watched all the episodes of The Prisoner on their first broadcast, at the ripe old age of thirteen. In I Am (Not) a Number, Cox believes he provides the answers to all the questions which have engrossed and confounded viewers.
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I Am (Not) a Number
- Decoding the Prisoner
- Narrated by: Alex Cox
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 14-01-26
- Language: English
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Inside Gilligan's Island
- From Creation to Syndication
- By: Sherwood Schwartz
- Narrated by: Mike Hennessy
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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While every new TV series has to face some problems, no show had to overcome greater obstacles than Gilligan's Island. In spite of that, no series has achieved greater success, as measured by the fact that Gilligan's Island has given rise to three TV movies, two animated series, and is the most rerun program in the entire history of television.
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Witty, enlightening and entertaining
- By Fred Jones on 08-04-24
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Inside Gilligan's Island
- From Creation to Syndication
- Narrated by: Mike Hennessy
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 12-03-24
- Language: English
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Garbo
- By: Robert Gottlieb
- Narrated by: Maria Tucci
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her. “Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941,” Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, “Greta Garbo is in people’s...
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Garbo
- Narrated by: Maria Tucci
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 07-12-21
- Language: English
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Silent Serial Sensations
- The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema
- By: Barbara Tepa Lupack
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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A must-listen new audio book about filmmakers Ted and Leo Wharton, whose serials become popular in the 1910s.
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Silent Serial Sensations
- The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 15-04-20
- Language: English
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»Also dann in Berlin ...«
- Artur und Maria Brauner - Eine Geschichte vom Überleben, von großem Kino und der Macht der Liebe
- By: Alice Brauner
- Narrated by: Andrea Sawatzki, Christian Berkel
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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Stettin 1945. Zurückgekehrt aus den Weiten Russlands und Usbekistans, wo seine Familie den Krieg und die Verfolgung durch die Nazis überlebt hat, schmiedet Artur Brauner Zukunftspläne. Auf dem Bahnhof begegnet er einer jungen Frau: Maria, die mit blond gefärbten Haaren und einer falschen Identität der Deportation aus dem Ghetto von Lemberg entgangen war - und in Hannover in einem Lagerkrankenhaus gearbeitet hatte. Jetzt ist sie auf dem Weg nach Warschau, in der Hoffnung, dort noch Überlebende ihrer Familie zu finden.
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»Also dann in Berlin ...«
- Artur und Maria Brauner - Eine Geschichte vom Überleben, von großem Kino und der Macht der Liebe
- Narrated by: Andrea Sawatzki, Christian Berkel
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 25-08-21
- Language: German
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Killin' Generals
- The Making of The Dirty Dozen, the Most Iconic WWII Movie of All Time
- By: Dwayne Epstein
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Based on exclusive interviews with the surviving cast and crew, friends and families of the stars, and other Hollywood insiders, Killin' Generals is a riveting must-listen for film buffs, military fans, and anyone who loves a down-and-dirty adventure tale. Detailed, insightful, and gossipy, Epstein's homage spotlights the movie's endless barrage of cinematic gold.
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Killin' Generals
- The Making of The Dirty Dozen, the Most Iconic WWII Movie of All Time
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 25-04-23
- Language: English
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Movies and the Meaning of Life
- By: Kimberly A. Blessing, Paul J. Tudico
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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"The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions", said the existentialist thinker Albert Camus. And no less a philosopher than Woody Allen has wondered: "How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?" The essays in Movies and the Meaning of Life look at popular and cult movies, examining their assumptions and insights on meaning-of-life questions....
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Movies and the Meaning of Life
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 09-01-19
- Language: English
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The Science of Harry Potter
- The Spellbinding Science Behind the Magic, Gadgets, Potions, and More!
- By: Mark Brake, Jon Chase
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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How does magic in J. K. Rowling’s universe work? Finally, the scientific secrets of the Harry Potter universe are revealed! The Science of Harry Potter examines the scientific principles behind some of the spells, scenes, and games that Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Dumbledore love best. Author Mark Brake, whose The Science of Star Wars was a knockout success, has found the answers to satisfy the curious spirits of muggles everywhere.
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The Science of Harry Potter
- The Spellbinding Science Behind the Magic, Gadgets, Potions, and More!
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 24-08-21
- Language: English
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The Collaboration
- Hollywood's Pact with Hitler
- By: Ben Urwand
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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To continue doing business in Germany, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films attacking Nazis or condemning persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this collaboration and the cast of characters it drew in, ranging from Goebbels to Louis B. Mayer. At the center was Hitler himself - obsessed with movies and their power to shape public opinion.
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Don't miss this!
- By iris on 17-10-13
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The Collaboration
- Hollywood's Pact with Hitler
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 09-09-13
- Language: English
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La bella confusione
- By: Francesco Piccolo
- Narrated by: Lino Musella
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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Il 1963 è stato l’anno di Fellini e di Visconti. Un anno decisivo per il cinema italiano, che ha visto la nascita di Otto e mezzo e Il Gattopardo. Ma prima di diventare i capolavori che ben sappiamo erano due incredibili scommesse, nonché il campo di battaglia tra due artisti rivali e profondamente diversi: mentre Claudia Cardinale cambiava il colore dei capelli secondo il capriccio di chi la dirigeva, l’intero contesto culturale italiano si stava preparando a sposare l’una o l’altra visione del cinema e del mondo.
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La bella confusione
- Narrated by: Lino Musella
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 15-09-23
- Language: Italian
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