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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 33 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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    • 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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    • 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 39 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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    • A Critical History of Witches in American Film and Television
    • By: Heather Greene
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • No industry has been as influential at shaping the popular notion of what it means to be a witch quite as much as Hollywood. This book traces the fascinating history of witchcraft and witches in American film and television....

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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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    • 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 68 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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    • 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 269 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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    • 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 457 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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    • Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
    • By: Anne Helen Peterson
    • Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • Based on Anne Helen Petersen's popular column on the Hairpin, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart....

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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 55 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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    • A Life in Films
    • By: Molly Haskell
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • "Everything about me is in my films," Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker, Molly Haskell explores Spielberg's works....

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    • Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
    • By: Mark Harris
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 601 ratings
    • Here is the epic drama behind the making of five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967, and through them, the story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood and America forever....

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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 8,813 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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    • 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 17 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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    • The Life of Charlie Chaplin
    • By: Joyce Milton
    • Narrated by: Clinton Wade
    • Length: 19 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • Charlie Chaplin made an amazing 71 films by the time he was only 33 years old. He was not only known as the world’s first international movie star, but as a comedian, film director, and a man ripe with scandal....

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    • Reviving Hollywood's Classical Style
    • By: Emilio Audissino
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • From the triumphant “Main Title” in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores—while netting more than fifty Academy Award nominations....

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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 37 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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    • 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 31 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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