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Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling
- By: Mark Minett
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
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Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accounts of the filmmaker. This re-examination of his seminal work during the "Hollywood Renaissance" or "New Hollywood" period of the early 1970s (including M*A*S*H and Nashville) sheds new light on both the films and the filmmaker, reframing Altman as a complex, pragmatic innovator whose work exceeds, but is also grounded in, the norms of classical Hollywood storytelling rather than someone who rejected those norms in favor of modernist art cinema.
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Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 23-02-21
- Language: English
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Answers in the Form of Questions
- A Definitive History and Insider's Guide to Jeopardy!
- By: Claire McNear, Ken Jennings
- Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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Jeopardy! is a lot of things: record-setting game show, beloved family tradition, and proving ground for many of North America's best and brightest. Nearly four decades into its current edition, Jeopardy! now finds itself facing unprecedented change. This is the chronicle of how the show became a cross-generational touchstone and where it's going next. Answers in the Form of Questions dives deep behind the scenes, with longtime host Alex Trebek talking about his life and legacy and the show's producers and writers explaining how they put together the nightly game.
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Answers in the Form of Questions
- A Definitive History and Insider's Guide to Jeopardy!
- Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 10-11-20
- Language: English
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Hollywood Black
- The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
- By: Donald Bogle, John Singleton - foreword, Turner Classic Movies
- Narrated by: Donald Bogle
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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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.
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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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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
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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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Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body
- By: Peter Lehman
- Narrated by: Doug Miller
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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In his analysis of films, novels, paintings, photographs, popular music, jokes, and videos, Peter Lehman investigates the patriarchal culture that keeps the male body, and especially male genitals, out of sight.
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Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body
- Narrated by: Doug Miller
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 17-03-16
- Language: English
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Montgomery Clift, Queer Star
- Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
- By: Elisabetta Girelli
- Narrated by: Sara Morsey
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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Strikingly beautiful and exceptionally talented, Montgomery Clift was at the peak of his fame in 1956 when a devastating car crash nearly destroyed his face. While this traumatic event robbed him of his heartthrob status and turned him into a somewhat disturbing, socially alienated character, author Elisabetta Girelli argues that Clift had always combined on-screen erotic ambiguity with real-life sexual nonconformity.
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Montgomery Clift, Queer Star
- Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
- Narrated by: Sara Morsey
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 23-12-15
- Language: English
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Grace
- A Biography
- By: Thilo Wydra, Rachel Hildebrandt - translator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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This comprehensive biography draws from previously unreleased photographs and documents from the Grimaldi family archive and, for the first time, access to the letters between Kelly and Hitchcock. It is also based on interviews with Kelly’s companions and relatives, including an exclusive interview with Prince Albert II of Monaco.
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Sugar coated
- By cg on 18-03-17
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Grace
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 18-11-14
- Language: English
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Girls on Film
- Lessons from a Life of Watching Women in Movies
- By: Alicia Malone
- Narrated by: Brigid Lohrey
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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With humor and honesty, Girls on Film looks at the good, the bad, and the unfairly written women in film. A celebration of the power of cinema and the hidden messages within media and culture, this collection of personal essays explores the women who inspired and confused a young film enthusiast.
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Girls on Film
- Lessons from a Life of Watching Women in Movies
- Narrated by: Brigid Lohrey
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 29-03-22
- Language: English
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Playboy Laughs
- The Comedy, Comedians, and Cartoons of Playboy
- By: Patricia Farmer
- Narrated by: Denise Shearer
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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Following her success with Playboy Swings, Patty Farmer looks at Playboy’s relationship with comedians and cartoonists in her new book Playboy Laughs. Playboy Laughs invites listeners onto the sets of the organization’s groundbreaking TV shows, Playboy Penthouse and Playboy After Dark. These popular variety series brought top-tier comedians, impressionists, and monologists—as well as the finest musicians—into people’s homes each week.
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Playboy Laughs
- The Comedy, Comedians, and Cartoons of Playboy
- Narrated by: Denise Shearer
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 20-11-23
- Language: English
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Red Star over Hollywood
- The Film Colony’s Long Romance with the Left
- By: Ronald Radosh, Allis Radosh
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Until now, Hollywood's political history has been dominated by a steady stream of films and memoirs decrying the nightmare of the Red Scare and how it victimized political innocents. But Ronald and Allis Radosh tell for the first time the “backstory” behind this myth. They show how the Soviet Comintern targeted the film capital in the late 1920s, taking us inside the cells and discussion groups that Communist Party members formed, the guilds and unions they tried to take over, and the studios they aimed to influence.
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A real endurance test
- By A. J. Roche on 04-06-14
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Red Star over Hollywood
- The Film Colony’s Long Romance with the Left
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 23-07-10
- Language: English
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Tears of a Clown
- Glenn Beck and the Tea-Bagging of America
- By: Dana Milbank
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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>Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck. Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. In America in 2010, Glenn Beck provides the very refreshment Jefferson had in mind: Whether he's the patriot or the tyrant, hes definitely full of manure.
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Excoriating Background to Pre Qanon Nonsense
- By Ms. L. Chalkley on 26-09-22
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Tears of a Clown
- Glenn Beck and the Tea-Bagging of America
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 05-10-10
- Language: English
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Giant Love
- Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and The Making of a Classic American Film
- By: Julie Gilbert
- Length: 11 hrs
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A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel about Texas, and the making of George Stevens’ Academy Award winning epic film of the same name, Giant.
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Giant Love
- Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and The Making of a Classic American Film
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 03-12-24
- Language: English
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Harvard, Hollywood, Hitmen, and Holy Men
- By: Paul W. Williams
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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The movie director Paul Williams is a real-life Forrest Gump. Williams' experiences form a unique and wild constellation of encounters with star power, political power, and spiritual power, crafting a life cycle that led to fame, fortune, integrity, and anonymity.
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Harvard, Hollywood, Hitmen, and Holy Men
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 27-07-23
- Language: English
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The Star-Spangled Screen
- The American World War II Film
- By: Bernard F. Dick
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
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The American World War II film depicted a united America, a mythic America in which the average guy, the girl next door, the 4-F patriot, and the grieving mother were suddenly transformed into heroes and heroines, warriors and goddesses. The Star-Spangled Screen examines the historical accuracy—or lack thereof—of films about the Third Reich, the Resistance, and major military campaigns.
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The Star-Spangled Screen
- The American World War II Film
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 15-07-22
- Language: English
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Усмешка тьмы
- By: Рэмси Кэмпбелл
- Narrated by: Илья Дементьев
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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Саймон — бывший кинокритик, человек без работы, перспектив и профессии, так как журнал, где он был главным редактором, признали виновным в клевете. Когда Саймон получает предложение от университета написать книгу о забытом актере эпохи немого кино, он хватается за последнюю возможность спасти свою карьеру. Тем более материал интересный: Табби Теккерей — клоун, на чьих представлениях, по слухам, люди буквально умирали от смеха. Комик, чьи фильмы, которые некогда ставили вровень с творениями Чарли Чаплина и Бастера Китона, исчезли практически без следа, как будто их специально постарались уничтожить.
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Усмешка тьмы
- Narrated by: Илья Дементьев
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 23-02-24
- Language: Russian
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Bullets over Bombay
- Satya and the Hindi Film Gangster
- By: Uday Bhatia
- Narrated by: Faraz Khan
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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In 1998, Satya opened to widespread critical acclaim. At a time when Bollywood was still rediscovering romance, Ram Gopal Varma's film dared to imagine the ordinary life of a Mumbai gangster. It kicked off a new wave of Hindi gangster films that depicted a vital, gritty side of Mumbai, rarely shown in mainstream cinema until then. More than two decades later, it has become an iconic film. When it was released, the regular moviegoer would have been hard-pressed to recognize more than a couple of names in the film's credits.
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Bullets over Bombay
- Satya and the Hindi Film Gangster
- Narrated by: Faraz Khan
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 28-02-22
- Language: English
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Sia and 'Music's' Misinterpretation of Autism
- By: Liz Fe Lifestyle
- Narrated by: Liz Fe Lifestyle
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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For years, the media has often poked fun at various marginalized individuals, damaging the impact that these people have on the world. And this is especially true for the media’s portrayal of autism. In the modern day, we like to believe that we are more socially aware and more accepting of people’s differences. Then we get singer-songwriter Sia’s film Music. What should have been a story focused on the nuances of autism spectrum disorder was instead a foray into the pseudo-whimsical world of misrepresentation and autistic stereotypes.
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Sia and 'Music's' Misinterpretation of Autism
- Narrated by: Liz Fe Lifestyle
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 31-01-22
- Language: English
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For No Reason at All
- The Changing Narrative of the First World War in American Film
- By: Jeffrey A. Hinkelman
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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For No Reason at All: The Changing Narrative of the First World War in American Film discusses a variety of Great War-themed films made from 1915 to the present, tracing the changing approaches to the conflict over time.
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For No Reason at All
- The Changing Narrative of the First World War in American Film
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-02-22
- Language: English
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Vudú
- By: Dani Morell, Javier J. Valencia, Óscar Sueiro, and others
- Narrated by: Raúl Rodríguez
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Fascinante ensayo que recorre, no solo la representación del vudú en el cine, desde cintas emblemáticas como El corazón del ángel a La serpiente y el arco iris, sino también los propios orígenes, evolución, idiosincrasia y prácticas del vudú real, de la mano de uno de los mayores expertos en el tema. El texto principal está aderezado con críticas y ensayos sobre el tema de otros autores emblemáticos de la escena hispanohablante contemporánea.
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Vudú
- Narrated by: Raúl Rodríguez
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 28-01-22
- Language: Spanish
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Terror rural y paganismo
- By: Dani Morell, Javier J. Valencia, José Ángel de Dios, and others
- Narrated by: Sergio Liébana
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
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Concienzudo y divertido ensayo sobre el folk horror, los credos más antiguos que el cristianismo arraigados en diferentes áreas del continente europeo que fueron origen de varias de las películas más emblemáticas de terror de las pasadas décadas. Una colección de ensayos de autores expertos tanto en cultura popular como en cine y en diferentes ramas de la sociología, que no solo analizan películas de culto, sino sus conexiones con los cultos europeos a las diferentes entidades de la naturaleza.
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Terror rural y paganismo
- Narrated by: Sergio Liébana
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 19-01-22
- Language: Spanish
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