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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
- Unabridged
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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' and Philosophy
- Everybody Lies
- By: Henry Jacoby
- Narrated by: Henry Jacoby
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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An unauthorized look at the philosophical issues raised by popular television show House. House was one of the top three television dramas on the air, pulling in more than 19 million viewers for each episode. This latest book in the popular Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series takes a deeper look at the characters and issues raised in this Emmy Award-winning medical drama, offering entertaining answers to the fascinating ethical questions viewers have about Dr. Gregory House and his medical team.
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Disappointing
- By T. J. Stephenson on 15-07-21
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'House' and Philosophy
- Everybody Lies
- Narrated by: Henry Jacoby
- Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture, Book 10
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-07-20
- Language: English
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Orson Welles
- The Road to Xanadu
- By: Simon Callow
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Abridged
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Insightful, incisive & enlightening, the first volume of Simon Callow's comprehensive biography of Orson Welles. Now in abridged audio, Callow's vastly entertaining chronicle of Welles's first 26 years seems even finer than it did in 1995. The author's ability to skewer his subject's evasions...
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Citizen Welles?
- By Liz... Bristol on 08-06-20
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Orson Welles
- The Road to Xanadu
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 26-01-17
- Language: English
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Rewinding The ’80s
- Cinema Under the Influence of Music Videos, Action Stars, and a Cold War
- By: John Malahy
- Narrated by: Michael James Bell
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Take a trip back to your favorite video store with this in-depth journey through the highs and lows of 80s cinema—with profiles of hundreds of films—and how Hollywood studios around the globe reflected a period of cultural change. The movies were flying blind in 1980. “New Hollywood” was...
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Rewinding The ’80s
- Cinema Under the Influence of Music Videos, Action Stars, and a Cold War
- Narrated by: Michael James Bell
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-10-25
- Language: English
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He's Got Rhythm
- The Life and Career of Gene Kelly (Screen Classics)
- By: Cynthia Brideson, Sara Brideson
- Narrated by: Cynthia Wallace
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most influential and respected entertainers of Hollywood's golden age, Gene Kelly revolutionized film musicals with his innovative and timeless choreography. A would-be baseball player and one-time law student, Kelly captured the nation's imagination in films such as Anchors Aweigh (1945), On the Town (1949), An American in Paris (1951), and Singin' in the Rain (1952). In the first comprehensive biography written since the legendary star's death, authors Cynthia Brideson and Sara Brideson disclose new details of Kelly's complex life.
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Great bio of the legendary Gene Kelly
- By Bryan James on 03-11-19
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He's Got Rhythm
- The Life and Career of Gene Kelly (Screen Classics)
- Narrated by: Cynthia Wallace
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 24-10-19
- Language: English
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Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out
- By: Aph Ko
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In this scintillating combination of critical race theory, social commentary, veganism, and gender analysis, media studies scholar Aph Ko offers a compelling vision of a reimagined social justice movement. Through a subtle and extended examination of Jordan Peele’s hit 2017 movie Get Out, Ko shows the many ways that white supremacist notions of animality and race exist through the consumption and exploitation of flesh. She demonstrates how a critical historical and social understanding of anti-blackness can provide the pathway to genuine liberation.
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Eye opening!
- By deborah cadden on 18-07-20
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Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 21-01-20
- Language: English
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John Gilbert
- The Last of the Silent Film Stars (Screen Classics)
- By: Eve Golden
- Narrated by: Hugh Munro Neely
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897-1936) was among the world's most recognizable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts of his life have focused on his high-profile romances with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, his legendary conflicts with Louis B. Mayer, his four tumultuous marriages, and his swift decline after the introduction of talkies.
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Entertaining and Informative
- By Aly cat 50 on 26-04-21
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John Gilbert
- The Last of the Silent Film Stars (Screen Classics)
- Narrated by: Hugh Munro Neely
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 07-11-13
- Language: English
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Monty Python vs the World
- How Monty Python Accidentally Changed the World
- By: Jim Yoakum
- Narrated by: Jake Sanson
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook, unlike any other about the team or series, was created with full access to Graham Chapman's private papers, scripts, and letters, thus allowing the author to explore some age-old myths, clear up some age-old debates, and give a rare insight into the making of a team and a series. This audiobook gives the reader knowledge about previously unknown information and trivia - much of which didn't appear in even Python's own book of the troupe - as well as the ability to hear actual unseen letters sent to the team by the BBC, and others.
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Monty Python vs the World
- How Monty Python Accidentally Changed the World
- Narrated by: Jake Sanson
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 17-05-18
- Language: English
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Millennial Nasties
- Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence (Encyclopocalypse Originals)
- By: Ariel Powers-Schaub
- Narrated by: Lila Kerry
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Torture porn, shock-for-shock’s sake, violence that doesn’t serve the plot, and characters you hate — what was going on in the 2000s in horror cinema? And why were audiences hungry for it? Millennial Nasties takes a critical but appreciative look at an oft-ignored subset of horror. This book dissects the English-language horror films of the 2000s and the cultural events they were responding to.
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Millennial Nasties
- Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence (Encyclopocalypse Originals)
- Narrated by: Lila Kerry
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 20-05-25
- Language: English
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Letterman
- The Last Giant of Late Night
- By: Jason Zinoman
- Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman delivers the definitive story of the life and artistic legacy of David Letterman, the greatest television talk show host of all time and the signature comedic voice of a generation. In a career spanning more than thirty years, David Letterman redefined...
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A fair review of the best late night host
- By Teeden on 21-10-22
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Letterman
- The Last Giant of Late Night
- Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 11-04-17
- Language: English
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The Man Who Saved Britain
- By: Simon Winder
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures, James Bond. 'An entertaining romp through the literary and cinematic heartland of James Bond country' – Sunday Times 'A hilarious blend of cultural history...
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seemed very toxic and negative. don't know why the author wrote it
- By Amazon Customer on 07-07-24
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The Man Who Saved Britain
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-04-24
- Language: English
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The Genius of Jane Austen
- Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood
- By: Paula Byrne
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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'I relished every page … This is the best book on Jane Austen I have ever read’ Spectator 'Compelling … a delightful and engrossing book … Byrne’s passion is nothing if not persuasive’ Sunday Times Was Jane Austen a woman of prim manners and genteel calm? Or someone who behaved...
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The Genius of Jane Austen
- Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 18-05-17
- Language: English
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The Moment of 'Psycho'
- How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder
- By: David Thomson
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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It was made like a television movie, and completed in less than three months. It killed off its star in 40 minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most violent scene to that date in American film, punctuated by shrieking strings that seared the national consciousness. Nothing like Psycho had existed before, and the movie industry, even America itself, would never be the same.
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The Moment of 'Psycho'
- How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-12-09
- Language: English
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What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
- A Portrait of an Independent Career
- By: Joseph McBride
- Narrated by: Bill Nevitt
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In this intimate and often surprising personal portrait, Joseph McBride challenges the conventional wisdom that Welles' career after Citizen Kane, widely regarded as the greatest film ever made, fell into a long decline. The author shows instead how Welles never stopped directing radical, adventurous films and was always breaking new artistic ground as a filmmaker. McBride is the first author to provide a comprehensive examination of the films of Welles's artistically rich yet widely misunderstood later period in the United States (1970–1985).
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Interesting discourse by Welles associate but
- By Deborah H on 04-11-24
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What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
- A Portrait of an Independent Career
- Narrated by: Bill Nevitt
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 20-09-22
- Language: English
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Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek
- How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television
- By: Thea Glassman, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong - introduction
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Life, Dawson’s Creek, Freaks and Geeks, The O.C., Friday Night Lights, and Glee) that shaped the course of modern television and our pop cultural landscape forever. The modern television landscape...
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Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek
- How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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The Movie Musical!
- By: Jeanine Basinger
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Irresistible and authoritative, The Movie Musical! is an in-depth look at the singing, dancing, happy-making world of Hollywood musicals--an essential audiobook for anyone who's ever laughed, cried, or sung along at the movies. Leading film historian Jeanine Basinger reveals, with her...
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A Fab Look At The History of the Hollywood Musical
- By Farniboy on 20-11-19
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The Movie Musical!
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 05-11-19
- Language: English
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The Science of Star Wars
- The Scientific Facts Behind the Force, Space Travel, and More!
- By: Mark Brake, Jon Chase
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Discover the science behind the most popular sci-fi franchise of all time. Capturing the imagination and hearts of crowds worldwide, Star Wars is a fantastic feat of science fiction and fantasy. We marvel at the variety of creatures and technology and the mystery behind the force. But how much of the Star Wars world is rooted in reality? Could we see some of the extraordinary inventions materialize in our world?
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The Science of Star Wars
- The Scientific Facts Behind the Force, Space Travel, and More!
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 30-06-17
- Language: English
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Trumbo
- A Biography of the Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Who Broke the Hollywood Blacklist
- By: Bruce Cook
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A central figure in the Hollywood Ten and one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood history, Trumbo epitomized the spirit of American capitalism, yet he went to jail refusing to talk about his membership in the Communist party.
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Disappointing
- By Amazon Customer on 05-03-16
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Trumbo
- A Biography of the Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Who Broke the Hollywood Blacklist
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 08-09-15
- 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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The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen
- Critical Approaches from 'Snow White' to 'Frozen'
- By: George Rodosthenous
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The Disney Musical: Critical Approaches on Stage and Screen is the first critical treatment of the corporation's hugely successful musicals both on screen and on the stage. Its 13 articles open up a new territory in the critical discussion of the Disney mega-musical, its gender, sexual and racial politics, outreach work and impact of stage, film and television adaptations.
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The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen
- Critical Approaches from 'Snow White' to 'Frozen'
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-08-26
- Language: English
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