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Old Hollywood
- The Originals: Volume 2
- By: Andrew Goldman
- Narrated by: Andrew Goldman
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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The legend Newsweek once dubbed “Superflack,” Bobby Zarem knows all of Hollywood’s secrets, and he’s not afraid to share them all. Even if you don’t believe all his dish, you’ll never look at the movie business the same. In light of Peter Bogdanovich’s January 6 death, The Originals releases a never-before-heard 2019 interview in which the Oscar-nominated director narrates his own story. Candid, shocking, and often hilarious, Bogdanovich shares tales of the mistakes that bedeviled his career.
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Old Hollywood
- The Originals: Volume 2
- Narrated by: Andrew Goldman
- Series: The Originals Series, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 20-06-23
- Language: English
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Say Hello to My Little Friend
- A Century of Scarface
- By: Nat Segaloff
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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When Brian DePalma's operatically violent and profane Scarface debuted in 1983, the film drew almost as much fire as the relentless gunfire in the film itself. The movie was a remake of 1932's Scarface—revamped for a new era of drugs, sex, and graphic violence. Attacked as both a celebration of cocaine-fueled excess and a condemnation of it, the film's reputation only grew as the years went by. But the real story of its success started nearly a century ago—when Hollywood first fell in love with the American gangster....
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Say Hello to My Little Friend
- A Century of Scarface
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 21-05-24
- Language: English
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Orson Welles in Focus
- Texts and Contexts
- By: James N. Gilmore, Sidney Gottlieb, James Naremore
- Narrated by: Alan Sewell
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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Through his radio and film works, such as The War of the Worlds and Citizen Kane, Orson Welles became a household name in the United States. Yet Welles’s multifaceted career went beyond these classic titles and included lesser-known but nonetheless important contributions to television, theater, newspaper columns, and political activism. Orson Welles in Focus: Texts and Contexts examines neglected areas of Welles’s work, shedding light on aspects of his art that have been eclipsed by a narrow focus on his films.
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Orson Welles in Focus
- Texts and Contexts
- Narrated by: Alan Sewell
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 23-07-19
- Language: English
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The Mafia in Hollywood
- Stories from Pre-Code to Deep Throat
- By: Douglas Hess, Wayne Clingman
- Narrated by: John Campagna
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
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Wayne Clingman and Douglas Hess explore the seedy relationship between the Mafia and Hollywood, beginning with the Pre-code era up through the filming of Deep Throat and beyond. Clingman and Hess unearth stories about notorious personages like Abner Zwillman, Gus Greenbaum, and Al Capone, and reveal the effect they had on movie-making, both by reputation and by direct interactions.
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The Mafia in Hollywood
- Stories from Pre-Code to Deep Throat
- Narrated by: John Campagna
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 29-01-24
- 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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Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity
- Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
- By: Scott Balcerzak
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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In Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity, Scott Balcerzak reads the performances of notable comedians such as W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello through humor and queer theory to expose a problematic history of maleness in their personas.
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Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity
- Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-08-16
- Language: English
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The Science of James Bond
- By: Lois H. Gresh, Robert Weinberg
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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From the sleek Aston Martin that spits out bullets, nails, and passengers at the push of a button to the microjet that makes hairpin turns to avoid a heat-seeking missile, the science and technology of James Bond films have kept millions of movie fans guessing for decades. Are these amazing feats and gadgets truly possible? The Science of James Bond takes you on a fascinating excursion through the true science that underlies Bond's most fantastic and off-the-wall accoutrements.
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The Science of James Bond
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-07-10
- 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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Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
- By: Terri Simone Francis
- Narrated by: Michelle Thompson
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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In Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism, Terri Simone Francis examines how Baker fashioned her celebrity through cinematic reflexivity, an authorial strategy in which she placed herself, her persona, and her character into visual dialogue.
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Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
- Narrated by: Michelle Thompson
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-07-23
- Language: English
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The Kindness of Strangers
- By: Salka Viertel
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
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Salka Viertel's autobiography tells of a brilliant, creative, and well-connected woman's pilgrimage through the darkest years of the 20th century, a journey that would take her from a remote province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Hollywood. The Kindness of Strangers is, to quote the New Yorker writer S. N. Behrman, "a very rich book. It provides a panorama of the dissolving civilizations of the 20th century. In all of them the author lived at the apex of their culture and artistic aristocracies."
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The Kindness of Strangers
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 17-11-20
- Language: English
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Transforming Harry
- The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age
- By: John Alberti - Edited by, P. Andrew Miller - Edited by
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell, Esther Wane
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation.
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Transforming Harry
- The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell, Esther Wane
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 31-07-18
- 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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Anne Bancroft
- A Life
- By: Douglass K. Daniel
- Narrated by: Commodore James
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" These famous lines from The Graduate (1967) would forever link Anne Bancroft (1931-2005) to the groundbreaking film and confirm her status as a movie icon. Along with her portrayal of Annie Sullivan in the stage and film drama The Miracle Worker, this role was a highlight of a career that spanned a half-century and brought Bancroft an Oscar, two Tonys, and two Emmy awards. In the first biography to cover the entire scope of Bancroft's life and career, Douglass K. Daniel reveals how, from a young age, Bancroft was committed to challenging herself and strengthening her craft.
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Anne Bancroft
- A Life
- Narrated by: Commodore James
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 09-10-18
- Language: English
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The Office and Philosophy
- Scenes from the Unexamined Life
- By: J. Jeremy Wisnewski - editor
- Narrated by: Raymond Scully
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Just when you thought paper couldn't be more exciting, this book comes your way! This book unites philosophy with one of the best shows ever: The Office. Addressing both the current American incarnation and the original British version, The Office and Philosophy brings these two wonders of civilization together for a frolic through the mundane yet curiously edifying worlds of Scranton's Dunder-Mifflin and Slough's Wernham-Hogg.
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The Office and Philosophy
- Scenes from the Unexamined Life
- Narrated by: Raymond Scully
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 09-07-20
- Language: English
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Was It Yesterday?
- Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television
- By: Matthew Leggatt - editor
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 11 hrs
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Was It Yesterday? explores the impact of nostalgia in 21st-century American film and television. Cultural nostalgia, in both real and imagined forms, is dominant today, but what does the concentration on bringing back the past mean for an understanding of our cultural moment, and what are the consequences for viewers? This book questions the nature of this nostalgic phenomenon, the politics associated with it, and the significance of the different periods, in addition to offering counterarguments that see nostalgia as prevalent throughout film and television history.
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Was It Yesterday?
- Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 19-10-21
- Language: English
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Dueling Banjos: The Deliverance of Drew
- By: Ronny Cox
- Narrated by: Ronny Cox
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
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Dueling Banjos: The Deliverance of Drew is a collection of stories of the making of the iconic movie, Deliverance, told from the perspective of one of the four main actors in the film, Ronny Cox, who played the character of Drew. Based on the novel by James Dickey, the movie was filmed in the summer of 1971 and was released the following year in 1972. Forty years later, it remains one of the most recognized films in movie history for being raw, emotional, violent and shocking - yet it leaves a lasting impression of artistic excellence.
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Dueling Banjos: The Deliverance of Drew
- Narrated by: Ronny Cox
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 22-02-18
- Language: English
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Vitagraph
- America's First Great Motion Picture Studio (Screen Classics)
- By: Andrew A. Erish
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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In Vitagraph, Andrew A. Erish provides a comprehensive examination and reassessment of the company most responsible for defining and popularizing the American movie. This history challenges long-accepted Hollywood mythology that simply isn't true: that Paramount and Fox invented the feature film, that Universal created the star system, and that these companies, along with MGM and Warner Bros., developed motion pictures into a multimillion-dollar business.
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Vitagraph
- America's First Great Motion Picture Studio (Screen Classics)
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 25-01-22
- Language: English
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- A History of Screenwriting in the American Film, Third Edition
- By: Tom Stempel
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
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Updated and expanded for the third edition, this volume combines scholarship with movie lore to present a comprehensive account of the development and influence of the American screenwriter. The text is written in an informal style and includes anecdotes and stories that spotlight the writers' creative work and their struggle to achieve recognition.
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- A History of Screenwriting in the American Film, Third Edition
- Narrated by: Paul Bright
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 07-09-16
- Language: English
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Till Today
- By: Pia Wilson, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Orion Pictures, and others
- Narrated by: April Ryan
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The brutalized body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was published in Jet magazine at the insistence of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Mamie wanted the horrific photograph of her son’s lynched body to be displayed for the world to see, to expose America to its own barbaric acts of racial terror. As such, Emmett’s death and Mamie’s actions afterwards would ignite a crucial moment in the civil rights movement, changing the course of history forever.
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WOW…thought provoking
- By KW on 07-01-23
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The Last Decade of Cinema
- 25 Films from the Nineties
- By: Scott Ryan
- Narrated by: Scott Ryan, Emily Marinelli
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Go back to the time of VCRs, DVD rentals, and movies that mattered. Turn off your streaming services, put down your phones, delete your Twitter account, and take a look back at the nineties with your Eyes Wide Shut, a White Russian in your hand, and yell “Hasta la vista, baby” to today's meaningless entertainment. Revel in the risk-taking brilliance of Quentin Tarantino, Amy Heckerling, Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, and others in Scott Ryan's magnum opus, The Last Decade of Cinema.
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The Last Decade of Cinema
- 25 Films from the Nineties
- Narrated by: Scott Ryan, Emily Marinelli
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 15-04-24
- Language: English
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