Showing results for "Hollywood" in History & Criticism
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The Last Kings of Hollywood
- By: Paul Fischer
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Coppola - The Godfather Spielberg - Jaws Lucas - Star Wars This is story of the most successful group of friends in the history of cinema and how they reshaped it forever. The Last Kings of Hollywood tells the thrilling, dramatic inside story of how the three filmmakers rivalled and supported...
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A great read
- By Jay on 18-06-26
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The Last Kings of Hollywood
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 12-03-26
- Language: English
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Oscar Wars
- A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
- By: Michael Schulman
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs
- Unabridged
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama. America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine...
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Solid
- By Mr. Paul Byrne on 24-05-24
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Oscar Wars
- A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs
- Release date: 21-02-23
- Language: English
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Box Office Poison
- Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
- By: Tim Robey
- Narrated by: Tim Robey
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adaptations, Tim Robey's hugely entertaining Box Office Poison tells an alternative history of Hollywood, through a century of its most notable flops. Freaks, Land of the Pharaohs, Dune, Speed 2, Catwoman, Cats: what can these films tell us about the Hollywood system, the public's appetite - or lack of it - and the circumstances that saw such box office disasters actually made? Away from the canon, here is the definitive take on these ill-fated, but essential celluloid failures.
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Dissappointing
- By Gerard on 28-02-25
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Box Office Poison
- Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
- Narrated by: Tim Robey
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 05-11-24
- Language: English
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This Was Hollywood
- Forgotten Stars and Stories
- By: Carla Valderrama
- Narrated by: Carla Valderrama
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance33
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In this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, the creator of Instagram's celebrated @ThisWasHollywood reveals the forgotten past of the film world in a dazzling visual package modeled on the classic fan magazines of yesteryear.From former screen legends who have faded into obscurity to new...
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An interesting listen but narration not up to par
- By Amazon Customer on 30-08-25
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This Was Hollywood
- Forgotten Stars and Stories
- Narrated by: Carla Valderrama
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 17-11-20
- Language: English
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Close-Up on Sunset Boulevard
- Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream
- By: Sam Staggs
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance18
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Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that dream. It’s also one long in-joke about the movie industry and those who made it great - and who were, in turn, destroyed by it. One of the most critically admired films of the 20th century, Sunset Boulevard is also famous as silent-star Gloria Swanson’s comeback picture.
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Comprehensive history for fans.
- By Mr.J.Bleakley. on 19-10-25
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Close-Up on Sunset Boulevard
- Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 30-03-21
- Language: English
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
- How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
- By: Peter Biskind
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 23 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall213
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Performance181
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Easy Rider, Raging Bulls follows the wild ride that was Hollywood in the 70s - an unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (both on screen and off) and a climate where innovation and experimentation reigned supreme.
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Hard Hitting and often Difficult...
- By colin_mcleod@mmltd.uk.com on 09-11-17
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
- How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 23 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-11-08
- Language: English
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Women vs Hollywood
- The Fall and Rise of Women in Film
- By: Helen O'Hara
- Narrated by: Helen O'Hara
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall139
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Performance122
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Hollywood was born just over a century ago, at a time of huge forward motion for women's rights. With no rules in place to stop them, there were women who forged ahead in many areas of filmmaking. Yet, despite the work of early pioneers like Dorothy Arzner, Mabel Normand, Mary Pickford and Alice Guy-Blaché, it soon came to embody the same old sexist standards. Women found themselves fighting a system that fed on their talent, creativity and beauty but refused to pay them the same respect as their male contemporaries - until now....
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Go Girls!
- By Nick Ord on 31-01-23
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Women vs Hollywood
- The Fall and Rise of Women in Film
- Narrated by: Helen O'Hara
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 18-02-21
- Language: English
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Hollywood
- The Oral History
- By: Sam Wasson, Jeanine Basinger
- Narrated by: Marni Penning, Timothy Andres Pabon
- Length: 28 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century. What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood's history is that it is the history of an art form through the words of those people who created it—from Harold Lloyd to Katharine Hepburn to Warren Beatty to Jane Fonda and beyond, including directors, writers, producers, editors, designers of sets and costumes.
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Mispronunciations galore but good otherwise
- By KK on 28-11-22
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Hollywood
- The Oral History
- Narrated by: Marni Penning, Timothy Andres Pabon
- Length: 28 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 15-11-22
- Language: English
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The Film Music of John Williams
- Reviving Hollywood's Classical Style
- By: Emilio Audissino
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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From the triumphant “Main Title” in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores—while netting more than fifty Academy Award nominations. This updated and revised edition of Emilio Audissino’s groundbreaking volume takes stock of Williams’s creative process and achievements in music composition, including the most recent sequels in the film franchises that made him famous. Audissino details his lasting impact and cements his legacy as one of the most important composers in movie history.
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The Film Music of John Williams
- Reviving Hollywood's Classical Style
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 04-10-22
- Language: English
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Last Night at the Viper Room
- River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
- By: Gavin Edwards
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance81
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Hollywood was built on beautiful and complicated matinee idols: James Dean and Marlon Brando are classic examples, but in the 1990s, the actor who embodied that archetype was River Phoenix. As the brightly colored 1980s wound down, a new crew of leading men began to appear on movie screens...
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Fantastic book. highly recommemded!
- By Zara on 08-02-15
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Last Night at the Viper Room
- River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-10-13
- Language: English
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Picturing Peter Bogdanovich
- My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director
- By: Peter Tonguette
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1971, Newsweek heralded The Last Picture Show as "the most impressive work by a young American director since Citizen Kane." Indeed, few filmmakers rivaled Peter Bogdanovich's popularity over the next decade. Riding the success of What's Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973), Bogdanovich became a bona fide celebrity, making regular appearances in his own movie trailers, occasionally hosting late-night television shows, and publicly advocating for mentors John Ford and Howard Hawks.
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Picturing Peter Bogdanovich
- My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 06-04-21
- Language: English
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The Castle on Sunset
- Love, Fame, Death and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
- By: Shawn Levy
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance26
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Chateau Marmont has sat atop the Sunset Strip for nearly a century, like the Rock of Gibraltar. It is a place filled with deep secrets but is hidden in plain sight, and its evolution parallels the growth of Hollywood itself. Since the dawn of talking pictures, the Chateau Marmont has promised privacy, mystery and a whiff of old glamour.
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Struggled to finish
- By J. James on 03-09-19
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The Castle on Sunset
- Love, Fame, Death and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 13-06-19
- Language: English
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Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend
- By: Mark Glancy
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 18 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend tells the incredible story of how a sad, neglected boy became the suave, glamorous star many know and idolize. The first biography to be based on Grant's own personal papers, this book takes us on a fascinating journey from the actor's difficult childhood through years of struggle in music halls and vaudeville, a hit-and-miss career in Broadway musicals, and three decades of film stardom during Hollywood's golden age.
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Excellent
- By Eugene on 29-11-21
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Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 18 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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The Way Hollywood Tells It
- Story and Style in Modern Movies
- By: David Bordwell
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance7
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David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today's bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers have created a durable tradition - one that we should not be ashamed to call artistic, and one that survives in both mainstream entertainment and niche-marketed indie cinema. Bordwell traces the continuity of this tradition in a wide array of films made since 1960.
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Rare academic audiobook
- By Thomas on 25-12-12
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The Way Hollywood Tells It
- Story and Style in Modern Movies
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-09-10
- Language: English
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The Elephant to Hollywood
- By: Michael Caine
- Narrated by: Michael Caine
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his...
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The Elephant to Hollywood
- Narrated by: Michael Caine
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 28-10-10
- Language: English
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The Golden Hour
- A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood
- By: Matthew Specktor
- Narrated by: Matthew Specktor
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Named a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews Named a Notable Book of 2025 by the Washington Post A personal and cultural exploration of the struggles between art and business at the heart of modern Hollywood, through the eyes of the talent that shaped it Matthew Specktor grew up in the film...
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Poor sound editing affected my enjoyment
- By S M Onions on 11-10-25
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The Golden Hour
- A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood
- Narrated by: Matthew Specktor
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 22-04-25
- Language: English
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Hollywood Black
- The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
- By: Donald Bogle, Turner Classic Movies, John Singleton - introduction
- Narrated by: Donald Bogle
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle. The story opens in the silent film era, when white...
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Hollywood Black
- The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
- Narrated by: Donald Bogle
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-08-21
- Language: English
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Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties
- The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher--Television
- By: Foster Hirsch
- Narrated by: Foster Hirsch
- Length: 36 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post–World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts “The definitive book on 1950s Hollywood.” —Booklist...
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Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties
- The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher--Television
- Narrated by: Foster Hirsch
- Length: 36 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-10-23
- Language: English
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Hollywood Blackout
- The battle for recognition in a white Hollywood
- By: Ben Arogundade
- Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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Ignoring the systemic racial inequalities in film is losing the industry $10 billion a year. Yet, parity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental issues that the Oscar Awards are only just beginning to address. In this book, award-winning writer, broadcaster, model, and fashion designer, Ben Arogundade, provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about Hollywood - documenting the stories and struggles of black artists within the movie industry that have so far been left out of the canon.
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Hollywood Blackout
- The battle for recognition in a white Hollywood
- Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 13-02-25
- Language: English
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Bogie & Bacall
- The Surprising True Story of Hollywood’s Greatest Love Affair
- By: William J. Mann
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 27 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great American love story—the romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart—capturing its complexity, contradictions, and challenges as never before. In Bogie & Bacall, William Mann offers a...
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Bogey and Betty
- By Linda T on 26-03-26
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Bogie & Bacall
- The Surprising True Story of Hollywood’s Greatest Love Affair
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 27 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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