Film History

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    • The Whole Equation
    • By: Kenneth Turan
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Film critic Kenneth Turan traces the fraught relationship between Louis B. Mayer (1884-1957) and Irving Thalberg (1899-1936) while examining the complicated history of Jewish identity in Hollywood.

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    • Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
    • By: Thomas Schatz, Steven Bach - preface
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Working from industry documents, Schatz traces the development of house styles, the rise and fall of careers, and the making - and unmaking - of movies, from Frankenstein to Spellbound to Grand Hotel....

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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 18 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 Comedy of Existence
    • By: Lee Siegel
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team the Marx Brothers....

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    • Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Sixteen Candles, Revenge of the Nerds, The Karate Kid, The Breakfast Club, Dead Poets Society, and Everything in Between
    • By: James King
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie goes behind the scenes of a genre where cult hits mingled with studio blockbusters, where giants like Spielberg and Coppola rubbed shoulders with baby-faced first-timers, and where future superstars got their big break....

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    • The Lost World of Film Noir
    • By: Eddie Muller
    • Narrated by: Eddie Muller, Erin Bennett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, listeners on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive volume....

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    • Gender in the Modern Horror Film
    • By: Carol J. Clover
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s....

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    • A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
    • By: Otto Friedrich, Glen David Gold - foreword
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 25 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In 1939, 50 million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering.

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    • By: Franchesca Ramsey
    • Narrated by: Franchesca Ramsey
    • Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • The resurgence of viral clips from the long-running hit reality television show America’s Next Top Model left fans and foes alike wondering–how did a show so outrageous and at times offensive ever get on the air?

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    • By: Sidney Lumet
    • Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 464 ratings
    • One of the greatest directors of all time, Sidney Lumet has made movies that have been nominated for more than 50 Academy Awards....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post-WW II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 09-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Paramount Pictures
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Keegan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
    • Step into the shadow of the Corleone family as Paramount Pictures unveils the enduring saga of The Godfather as never experienced before in this captivating Audible Original.

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    • How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
    • By: Isaac Butler
    • Narrated by: Isaac Butler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • On stage and screen, we know a great performance when we see it. But how do actors draw from their bodies and minds to turn their selves into art? What is the craft of being an authentic fake? Find out....

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    • My Life inside 'The Room', the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
    • By: Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
    • Narrated by: Greg Sestero
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,823 ratings
    • The Disaster Artist is Greg Sestero's laugh-out-loud funny account of how Tommy Wiseau defied every law of artistry, business, and friendship to make "the Citizen Kane of bad movies"....

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    • By: Jack Halberstam
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism....

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    • An Introduction
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic, and political forces that have shaped our attitudes toward sex....

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    • A Celebration of the Greatest Time Travel Story Ever Told
    • By: Brad Gilmore
    • Narrated by: Joe Hempel
    • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • The Back to the Future series is a timeless collection that is greatly revered by all audiences. Brad Gilmore discusses these films from a place of passion and so effectively reveals how the history behind the movies is just as engaging as the films themselves....

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