Entertainment Business

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    • Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment
    • By: Anita Elberse
    • Narrated by: Renee Raudman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Why the future of popular culture will revolve around ever bigger bets on entertainment products, by one of Harvard Business School's most celebrated professors....

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    • Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
    • By: Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp, Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,419 ratings
    • Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from his own career, No Rules Rules is the full, fascinating, and untold story of a unique company making its mark on the world....

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    • The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
    • By: Derek Thompson
    • Narrated by: Derek Thompson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,932 ratings
    • Nothing "goes viral". If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-of-mouth success in today's media environment, you're missing the real story....

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    • How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office
    • By: Zack O'Malley Greenburg
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Now updated and revised - from a Forbes senior editor, a compelling portrait of American rapper Jay Z and his rise from the Brooklyn projects to the top of the business world....

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    • An Introduction
    • By: Ed Sikov
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Film Studies is an indispensable introduction to the study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and training the spectator to be an active listener and critic....

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    • The Complete Guide to Becoming a Successful Comedian
    • By: Stephen Rosenfield
    • Narrated by: Stephen Rosenfield
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 258 ratings
    • This sharply written guide - for both beginners breaking into comedy and professionals seeking to improve their sets and advance their careers - examines the work of great comedians as a as a means of illustrating the most important techniques of performing and writing stand-up....

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    • The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
    • By: Don Thompson
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world....

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    • By: Donald S. Passman
    • Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
    • Length: 22 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • All You Need to Know About the Music Business has been universally regarded as the definitive guide to the music industry. Now Passman leads novices and experts alike through what has been the most profound change in the music business since the days of wax cylinders and piano rolls: streaming....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
    • By: Dana Thomas
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 245 ratings
    • In her groundbreaking work Gods and Kings, acclaimed journalist Dana Thomas tells the true story of McQueen and Galliano. In so doing she reveals the relentless world of couture....

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    • The Inside Story of Casablanca Records
    • By: Larry Harris, Curt Gooch, Jeff Suhs
    • Narrated by: Larry Harris
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 403 ratings
    • Now it can be told! The true, behind-the-scenes story of Casablanca Records, from an eyewitness to the excess and insanity....

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    • The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival
    • By: Deborah Ball
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • Versace. The very name conjures up images of outrageous glamour and bold sexuality, opulence and daring. All of course true, but only half the story. Versace is also the legacy of a great creative genius from a poor, backward part of southern Italy who transformed the fashion world....

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    • Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
    • By: Robert Iger
    • Narrated by: Jim Frangione, Robert Iger
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16,710 ratings
    • A memoir of leadership and success: The executive chairman of Disney, Time’s 2019 businessperson of the year, shares the ideas and values he embraced during his 15 years as CEO while reinventing one of the world’s most beloved companies....

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    • By: Mark Fleischman, Denise Chatman, Mimi Fleischman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • In the early 80s, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up that night....

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    • Hollywood History from the Bottom Up
    • By: David Rensin
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Veteran Hollywood writer David Rensin travels behind the scenes and through 65 years of show business history to tell the real stories of the marvelous careers that began - and in some cases ended - in the mailroom....

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    • The Only Storytelling Guide You'll Ever Need
    • By: Margot Leitman
    • Narrated by: Margot Leitman
    • Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,164 ratings
    • Did you ever wish you could tell a story that leaves others spellbound? Storytelling teacher and champion Margot Leitman will show you how....

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    • Fight. Grind. Repeat.
    • By: Bobby Bones
    • Narrated by: Bobby Bones
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,984 ratings
    • Bobby Bones is the youngest inductee ever into the National Radio Hall of Fame, alongside legends Dick Clark, Larry King, and Howard Stern....

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    • The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago
    • By: Ethan Mordden
    • Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • As author Ethan Mordden looks back at Chicago's various moving parts, we learn how the American theater serves as a kind of alternative news medium, a town crier warning the public about the racy, devious interior contradictions of American society....

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    • My Remarkable Life in Show Business
    • By: Mel Brooks
    • Narrated by: Mel Brooks
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,135 ratings
    • At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now, for the first time, this EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winner shares his story in his own words....

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    • 60 Leaders Share Their Secrets of Success
    • By: Catharine Fishel
    • Narrated by: Martin Moran
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Inside the Business of Graphic Design casts a precise and realistic light on the risks, requirements, and rewards of running a creative and successful design business....

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