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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 14 ratings
    • With humor and honesty, Girls on Film looks at the good, the bad, and the unfairly written women in film....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
    • By: Susannah Gora
    • Narrated by: Kelli Tager
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • The landscape that the Brat Pack memorialized is rich with cultural themes and significance, and has influenced an entire generation who still believe that life always turns out like an '80s movie. You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried takes us back to that era....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 612 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....

    Regular price: $20.20

    • 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 24 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 out of 5 stars 80 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Kathryn Kalinak
    • Narrated by: Amy Rubinate
    • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around the world....

    Regular price: $16.00

    • 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 8,839 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"....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • By: Shea Serrano
    • Narrated by: Mario Toscano
    • Series: (And Other Things)
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • Number one New York Times best-selling author Shea Serrano is back, and his new book, Movies (And Other Things), combines the fury of a John Wick shootout, the sly brilliance of Regina George holding court at a cafeteria table, and the sheer power of a Denzel monologue....

    Regular price: $25.19

    • By: Jeanine Basinger
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $29.25

    • An Essay
    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics....

    Regular price: $14.58

    • 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 38 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • By: Roger Ebert
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Series: The Great Movies
    • Length: 33 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-25
    • Language: English
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    • America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents two hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made in this two-book collection containing THE GREAT MOVIES and THE GREAT MOVIES II.

    Regular price: $36.00

  • Regular price: $17.16

    • How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
    • By: Peter Biskind
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Instead of focusing on one service, like HBO, Pandora’s Box asks, “What did HBO do, besides give us The Sopranos?” The answer: It gave us a revolution....

    Regular price: $25.19

    • The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction
    • By: Grady Hendrix, Will Errickson - contributor
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 763 ratings
    • Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades...if you dare. Hear shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate....

    Regular price: $14.58

    • How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen
    • By: Brian Raftery
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 534 ratings
    • From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of 1999 - arguably the most groundbreaking year in American cinematic history....

    Regular price: $19.49

    • A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies
    • By: Bruce Handy
    • Narrated by: Alex Mortensen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • From a longtime Vanity Fair writer and editor, a delightfully entertaining, intelligent, and illuminating history and tribute to teen movies—from Rebel Without a Cause to Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and on to John Hughes, Mean Girls, The Hunger Games, and more.

    Regular price: $22.49

    • 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....

    Regular price: $31.50

    • How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
    • By: Matt Singer
    • Narrated by: Matt Singer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for eight years before they’d ever exchanged a word) met for lunch in a Chicago pub. Gene Siskel was the film critic for the Chicago Tribune....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • By: Salka Viertel
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • A memoir about showbiz in the early 20th century that travels from the theaters of Vienna, Prague, and Berlin, to Hollywood during the golden age....

    Regular price: $21.49