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- A Bingewatcher’s Notebook
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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Television and TV viewing are not what they once were - and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columnist for the London Observer from 1972 to 1982, James has witnessed a radical change in content, format, and programming, and in the very manner in which television is watched. Here he examines this unique cultural revolution, providing a brilliant, eminently entertaining analysis of many of the medium's most notable 21st-century accomplishments.
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An interesting if pointless book
- By Murray on 09-09-16
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- A Bingewatcher’s Notebook
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 30-08-16
- Language: English
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In Search of Darkness
- By: Heather Wixson, Patrick Bromley
- Narrated by: Freddie Heinz
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
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Celebrating over 200 films from the greatest decade of horror – the 1980s – In Search of Darkness is the definitive guide to this iconic era in genre filmmaking. In Search of Darkness will allow listeners to immerse themselves in the history of their favorite horror movies and discover hidden gems from this iconic time period.
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In Search of Darkness
- Narrated by: Freddie Heinz
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-04-26
- Language: English
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So Fetch
- The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We’re Still So Obsessed With It)
- By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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People Best New Book The inside story of the making of Mean Girls – and our enduring 20-year obsession with it Released in 2004, iconic teen comedy Mean Girls remains as relevant now as ever. But what made an adaptation of a parenting guide by SNL writer Tina Fey so successful? And why, two...
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Really interesting!
- By Anonymous on 01-02-24
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- The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We’re Still So Obsessed With It)
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-01-24
- Language: English
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50 Years of Hammer Horror
- By: John L. Flynn
- Narrated by: Michelle Warren
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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50 Years of Hammer Horror by John L. Flynn, Ph.D. is the follow-up book to his popular 75 Years of Universal Monsters. Hammer Film Productions was the most successful independent film company in the world. Between 1935 and 1983, the company produced more than 250 motion pictures and television shows, and their signature productions headlined theater marquees all around the globe. Those productions included thrillers, comedies, historical dramas, and science fiction. The company was best known for its series of gothic horror films.
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50 Years of Hammer Horror
- Narrated by: Michelle Warren
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 25-08-25
- Language: English
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The Shining
- By: Roger Luckhurst
- Narrated by: David Blair
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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Stanley Kubrick hailed The Shining as 'the scariest horror film of all time' before its release in 1980. Though the film opened to poor reviews, it has since become one of the most admired horror films in cinema history. Exerting an enormous influence on popular culture, The Shining has spawned...
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The Shining
- Narrated by: David Blair
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-12-25
- Language: English
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I Like to Watch
- Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
- By: Emily Nussbaum
- Narrated by: Emily Nussbaum
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch. “Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic—smart, engaging, funny, generous, and insightful.”—David Grann...
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I Like to Watch
- Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
- Narrated by: Emily Nussbaum
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 25-06-19
- Language: English
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These Fists Break Bricks
- How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World
- By: Chris Poggiali, Grady Hendrix
- Narrated by: Grady Hendrix
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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When a major Hollywood studio released Five Fingers of Death to thrill-seeking Times Square moviegoers on March 21, 1973, only a handful of Black and Asian American audience members knew the difference between an Iron Fist and an Eagle's Claw. That changed overnight as kung fu movies kicked off a craze that would earn millions at the box office, send TV ratings soaring, sell hundreds of thousands of video tapes, influence the birth of hip hop, reshape the style of action we see in movies today, and introduce America to some of the biggest non-White stars.
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An almost complete history
- By Mathew Jones on 05-10-25
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These Fists Break Bricks
- How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World
- Narrated by: Grady Hendrix
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 15-09-21
- Language: English
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Long Take
- By: Akira Kurosawa, Anne McKnight - translator
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. The memoir he finally started serializing in 1978, Something like an Autobiography, ended with Rashomon, the film that launched him on the world's stage in 1950. Long Take, first published in Japan shortly after Kurosawa's death in 1998, at last tells the story of the rest of his life.
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Long Take
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 06-02-26
- Language: English
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Blade Runner
- By: Scott Bukatman
- Narrated by: David Blair
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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Bloomsbury presents Blade Runner by Scott Bukatman, read by David Blair. Ridley Scott's dystopian classic Blade Runner, an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, combines noir with science fiction to create a groundbreaking cyberpunk vision of urban life in...
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Blade Runner
- Narrated by: David Blair
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-12-25
- Language: English
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The Golden Girls
- Tales from the Lanai
- By: Taylor Cole Miller - editor, Alfred L. Martin Jr. - editor
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Tanya Eby, Diontae Black
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai is an accessible collection that explores the cultural, industrial, and historical impact of that beloved American sitcom. Edited by Taylor Cole Miller and Alfred L. Martin, Jr., this anthology brings together a diverse range of voices that model different media studies approaches to researching and critically analyzing television texts.
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The Golden Girls
- Tales from the Lanai
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Tanya Eby, Diontae Black
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 30-09-25
- Language: English
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House of Psychotic Women
- An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
- By: Kier-La Janisse
- Narrated by: Kier-La Janisse
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. Unlike her male counterpart—the eccentric'—the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play.
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wonderfully narrated and so fascinating
- By Kevin on 02-04-24
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House of Psychotic Women
- An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
- Narrated by: Kier-La Janisse
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 10-10-23
- Language: English
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The Modern Myths
- Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
- By: Philip Ball
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
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Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time—fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them—and still living them—today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman, many stories written in the past few centuries are commonly, perhaps glibly, called "modern myths." But Ball argues that we should take that idea seriously. Our stories of Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Sherlock Holmes are doing the kind of cultural work that the ancient myths once did.
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fascinating
- By MR B A OSULLIVAN on 02-01-24
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The Modern Myths
- Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 19-07-22
- Language: English
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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.
- Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
- By: Sam Wasson
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey—dainty, immaculate—is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complete account of the making of...
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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.
- Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 26-06-12
- Language: English
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Love, Groucho
- Letters from Groucho Marx to His Daughter Miriam
- By: Groucho Marx
- Narrated by: Frank Ferrante
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
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Having saved virtually every letter her father wrote to her between the years 1938, when she was 11 years old, and 1967, Miriam Marx' letters from her famous father Groucho show an extraordinary father-daughter relationship.
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Amazing insight.
- By roger1968 on 06-10-21
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Love, Groucho
- Letters from Groucho Marx to His Daughter Miriam
- Narrated by: Frank Ferrante
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Release date: 29-06-01
- Language: English
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Warner Bros
- The Making of an American Movie Studio
- By: David Thomson
- Narrated by: David Thomson
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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Warner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early 20th century through its ascent to the pinnacle of Hollywood influence and popularity. The Warner Brothers - Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack - arrived in America as unschooled Jewish immigrants, yet they founded a studio that became the smartest, toughest, and most radical in all of Hollywood.
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Good but not exceptional
- By Anonymous on 09-06-22
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Warner Bros
- The Making of an American Movie Studio
- Narrated by: David Thomson
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 27-03-18
- Language: English
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The Pixar Touch
- The Making of a Company
- By: David A. Price
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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The Pixar Touch is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the "fraternity of geeks" who shaped it. With the help of visionary businessman Steve Jobs and animating genius John Lasseter, Pixar has become the gold standard of animated filmmaking, beginning with a short special effects shot made at Lucasfilm in 1982 all the way up through the landmark films Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, and others.
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A great insider view
- By Simon on 01-12-15
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The Pixar Touch
- The Making of a Company
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 02-12-08
- Language: English
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The De Palma Decade
- Redefining Cinema with Doubles, Voyeurs, and Psychic Teens
- By: Laurent Bouzereau
- Narrated by: Dani Martineck
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Journey with award-winning filmmaker and author Laurent Bouzereau through acclaimed director Brian De Palma’s renowned—and controversial—horror and thriller films that redefined cinema in the 1970s and early 80s with new interviews and fresh takes. Among a crop of fresh filmmakers...
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The De Palma Decade
- Redefining Cinema with Doubles, Voyeurs, and Psychic Teens
- Narrated by: Dani Martineck
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 03-09-24
- Language: English
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Making Mary Poppins
- The Sherman Brothers, Walt Disney, and the Creation of the Classic Film
- By: Todd James Pierce
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Long before Mary Poppins danced across the rooftops and into the hearts of millions, Robert and Richard Sherman were struggling songwriters in Los Angeles, trying to find their voices—and their futures. In this vivid and deeply researched narrative, author and Disney historian Todd James Pierce traces the unlikely path that brought the Sherman brothers to Walt Disney's attention, and how their personal history, musical genius, and emotional lives shaped the film's unforgettable songs and surprising storyline.
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Todd James Pierce at his very best!
- By Anonymous on 20-01-26
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Making Mary Poppins
- The Sherman Brothers, Walt Disney, and the Creation of the Classic Film
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 11-11-25
- Language: English
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Master of Ceremonies
- A Memoir
- By: Joel Grey
- Narrated by: Joel Grey
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and wooly Jewish American family in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, Joel began his life in the theater at the age of 9, starting in children’s theater...
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Brilliant
- By Amazon Customer on 15-03-23
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Master of Ceremonies
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Joel Grey
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 16-02-16
- Language: English
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The Sound of Music
- The Making of America's Favorite Movie
- By: Julia Antopol Hirsch, Robert Wise
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The Sound of Music is a classic film cherished in the hearts of millions. It won five Oscars, including Best Picture, upon its release in 1965. This tribute to a Hollywood classic is sure to thrill everyone who's ever sung along to "My Favorite Things" at one of the many screenings that still take place today. Through interviews with the cast and crew, in-depth access to memorabilia and personal scrapbooks, and archival research at Fox Studios, author Julia Antopol Hirsch reveals the lively human story behind the making of the von Trapp family film.
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Sound of music
- By Linda T on 06-06-24
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The Sound of Music
- The Making of America's Favorite Movie
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-04-18
- Language: English
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