Film Studies

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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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    • 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
    • Release date: 06-26-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Quentin Tarantino
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Quentin Tarantino
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,247 ratings
    • The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Donna Kornhaber
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Encompassing the 35 year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema's silent era is both one of the most important epochs of film history and one of the most misunderstood....

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    • A Complete Guide to (Independent) Filmmaking
    • By: Shane Stanley
    • Narrated by: Ted Jonas
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Multi-Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Shane Stanley writes a book anyone and everyone should hear if they want an entertainment industry insider's professional guidance on how to create a movie....

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    • By: Jack Halberstam
    • Narrated by: Lea DeLaria
    • Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two centuries....

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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 64 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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    • The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies
    • By: Andrew Maynard
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Former physicist Andrew Maynard threads together his love of science-fiction movies with his expertise on emerging technologies to engage, entertain, and make you think about the relationship between technology and society....

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    • American Filmmaker (Jewish Lives Series)
    • By: David Mikics
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Stanley Kubrick revolutionized Hollywood with movies like Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange. David Mikics takes listeners on a deep dive into Kubrick's life and work, illustrating his intense commitment to each of his films....

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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 77 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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    • The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
    • By: Scott Eyman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author Scott Eyman tells the story of the remarkable friendship of two Hollywood legends....

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    • House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies
    • By: Ethan Mordden
    • Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • Hollywood in the years between 1929 and 1948 was a town of moviemaking empires. The great studios were estates of talent: sprawling, dense, diverse. It was the Golden Age of the Movies....

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    • Race, Class and Sex at the Movies
    • By: Bell Hooks
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Movies matter—that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks' classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences, and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues....

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    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • By: Samantha Barbas
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

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    • Lessons from a Life of Watching Women in Movies
    • By: Alicia Malone
    • Narrated by: Brigid Lohrey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • With humor and honesty, Girls on Film looks at the good, the bad, and the unfairly written women in film....

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    • The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
    • By: W. Scott Poole
    • Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature....

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    • By: Mark Minett
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
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    • Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accounts of the filmmaker. This is a re-examination of his seminal work during the "Hollywood Renaissance" or "New Hollywood" period of the early 1970s....

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    • A Film Lover's Guide to Decoding the Art Form That Moves
    • By: Thomas C. Foster
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • No art form is as instantly and continuously gratifying as film. When the houselights go down and the lion roars, we settle in to be shocked, frightened, elated, moved, and thrilled....

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    • Story and Style in Modern Movies
    • By: David Bordwell
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? Find out....

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    • By: Richard Rambuss
    • Narrated by: Brian Holden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future. The persistent theme of his filmmaking is less violence or sex than it is the pressurized exertion of masculinity in unusual or extreme circumstances....

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