Television Culture

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    • The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV
    • By: Ben Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The syndicated columnist and bestselling author of Brainwashed, Porn Generation, and Project President tells the shocking true story of how the most powerful medium of mass communication in human history became a vehicle for spreading the radical agenda of the left side of the political spectrum....

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    • The Invention of Reality TV
    • By: Emily Nussbaum
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • The rollicking saga of reality television, an ambitious cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer.

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    • An Opinionated History of Queer TV
    • By: Shayna Maci Warner
    • Narrated by: Shayna Maci Warner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Rainbow Age of Television explores why queer people are so invested in—and conflicted by—the kinds of storytelling that TV has to offer. Above all, it's a celebration of the LGBTQIA+ shows, their characters, and their creators that define this new age in television.

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    • Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
    • By: Neil Postman
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,555 ratings
    • In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs....

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    • From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific
    • By: David Bianculli
    • Narrated by: David Bianculli
    • Length: 23 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • Television shows have now eclipsed films as the premier form of visual narrative art of our time. This new book by one of our finest critics explains how the art of must-see television evolved....

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    • Illuminati and Occult Symbolism in Films, Television and Technology: Harry Potter, 5G, Flat Earth, Bitcoin and More
    • By: Isaac Weishaupt
    • Narrated by: Isaac Weishaupt
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • Inspired by the most popular subjects on Isaac Weishaupt’s podcast, Conspiracy Theories & Unpopular Culture, this book explores familiar topics that have an insidious truth hidden from the masses....

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    • A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television
    • By: Grace Jung
    • Narrated by: Grace Jung
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • From stand-up comedian and media studies PhD Grace Jung comes a rollicking deep dive into the cultural significance of Korean television....

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    • Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
    • By: Emily Nussbaum
    • Narrated by: Emily Nussbaum
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 340 ratings
    • From her creation of the “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has argued for a new way of looking at TV....

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    • My Life in the '80s Geek Culture Trenches with G.I. Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, and the Transformers
    • By: Flint Dille
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • The Gamesmaster is a narrative memoir chronicling the life and career of Flint Dille. And while he isn't exactly a household name, you almost certainly know his work....

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    • One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being a Dumb Ass Is t he New Black, or, a Culture-Up Manifesto
    • By: Jen Lancaster
    • Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 202 ratings
    • It's a JENaissance! The New York Times best-selling author of Pretty in Plaid gets her culture on. ....

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    • The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show
    • By: Daniel de Visé
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 627 ratings
    • A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, celebrating the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America's most iconic television programs....

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    • The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop
    • By: Martin Puchner
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one engaging volume....

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    • 1974 - The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
    • By: Ronald Brownstein
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 294 ratings
    • In this exceptional cultural history, Ronald Brownstein tells the kaleidoscopic story of one monumental year that marked the city of Los Angeles' creative peak, a glittering moment when popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become....

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    • Nostalgic Holiday Favorites of the Small Screen
    • By: Herbie J Pilato, Marlo Thomas - foreword
    • Narrated by: Steve Marvel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • Christmas TV Memories offers a tinsel-decked traipse down memory lane and chronicling animated classics, variety shows, made-for-television features, and holiday-specific episodes of series like The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

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    • The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV
    • By: Jennifer L. Pozner
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Nearly every night on every major network, unscripted (but carefully crafted) "reality” TV shows routinely glorify retrograde stereotypes that most people would assume got left behind 35 years ago.....

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    • How Movies and TV Affect Everything
    • By: Walt Hickey
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning author and data expert Walt Hickey explains the power of entertainment to change our biology, our beliefs, how we see ourselves, and how nations gain power.

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    • What Reality TV Says About Us
    • By: Danielle J. Lindemann
    • Narrated by: Libby McKnight
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • A sociological study of reality TV, True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium—and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gender, class, and sexuality.

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    • TV Milestones
    • By: David Scott Diffrient
    • Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 05-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Few American television series are as deeply entrenched in twentieth-century popular culture as M*A*S*H, a Korean War medical comedy characterized by its dark tone and finesse in tackling serious social and political issues....

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