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Mad Max and Philosophy: Thinking Through the Wasteland
- The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
- By: William Irwin - editor, Matthew P. Meyer - editor, David Koepsell - editor
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray, Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Beneath the stylized violence and thrilling car crashes, the Mad Max films consider universal questions about the nature of human life, order and anarchy, justice and moral responsibility, society and technology, and ultimately, human redemption. In Mad Max and Philosophy, a diverse team of political scientists, historians, and philosophers investigates the underlying themes of the blockbuster movie franchise, following Max as he attempts to rebuild himself and the world.
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Mad Max and Philosophy: Thinking Through the Wasteland
- The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray, Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-08-24
- Language: English
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When Women Invented Television
- The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today
- By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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It was the Golden Age of Radio and powerful men were making millions in advertising dollars reaching thousands of listeners every day. When television arrived, few radio moguls were interested in the upstart industry and its tiny production budgets, and expensive television sets were out of reach for most families. But four women - each an independent visionary - saw an opportunity and carved their own paths, and in so doing invented the way we watch TV today.
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When Women Invented Television
- The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-03-21
- Language: English
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Serenity Found
- More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe
- By: Jane Espenson - editor, Leah Wilson, Nathan Fillion, and others
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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Serenity Found takes the contents of Finding Serenity even further, exploring not just the show but the events of the film as well, to create an anthology that's even more thought-provoking, fascinating, and far-thinking than its predecessor.
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Serenity Found
- More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 14-07-17
- Language: English
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Hollywood Black
- The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
- By: Donald Bogle, John Singleton - foreword, Turner Classic Movies
- Narrated by: Donald Bogle
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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The films, the stars, the filmmakers - all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of Blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle.
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Hollywood Black
- The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
- Narrated by: Donald Bogle
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-08-21
- Language: English
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Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades and Hurrahs
- By: James Wolcott
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 25 hrs and 7 mins
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Critical Mass is a treasure trove of sparkling, spiky prose and a fascinating portrait of our lives and cultural times over the past decades. In an age where a great deal of back scratching and softball pitching pass for criticism, James Wolcott’s fearless essays and reviews offer a bracing taste of the real critical thing.
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Good but...
- By JF7588 on 03-04-16
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Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades and Hurrahs
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 25 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 25-08-14
- Language: English
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The Way They Were
- How Epic Battles and Bruised Egos Brought a Classic Hollywood Love Story to the Screen
- By: Robert Hofler
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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It's one of the greatest movie romances of all time. Yet the friction and controversy surrounding The Way We Were was so enormous, the movie was nearly never made at all. Drawing on Laurents's and Pollack's unpublished writings, as well as interviews with Streisand, Redford, and other key players, this is the definitive account of a film that changed the rules of moviemaking and defined romance ever since.
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The Way They Were
- How Epic Battles and Bruised Egos Brought a Classic Hollywood Love Story to the Screen
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
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Hollywood Worldviews
- Watching Films with Wisdom & Discernment
- By: Brian Godawa
- Narrated by: Brian Godawa
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Do you watch movies with your eyes open? You buy your tickets and concessions, and you walk into the theater. Celluloid images flash at 24 frames per second, and the hypnotic sequence of moving pictures coaxes you to suspend disbelief and be entertained by the implausible. Unfortunately, many often suspend their beliefs as well, succumbing to subtle lessons in how to behave, think, and even perceive reality.
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Hollywood Worldviews
- Watching Films with Wisdom & Discernment
- Narrated by: Brian Godawa
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 28-11-16
- Language: English
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The Collaboration
- Hollywood's Pact with Hitler
- By: Ben Urwand
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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To continue doing business in Germany, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films attacking Nazis or condemning persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this collaboration and the cast of characters it drew in, ranging from Goebbels to Louis B. Mayer. At the center was Hitler himself - obsessed with movies and their power to shape public opinion.
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Don't miss this!
- By iris on 17-10-13
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The Collaboration
- Hollywood's Pact with Hitler
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 09-09-13
- Language: English
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Silent Serial Sensations
- The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema
- By: Barbara Tepa Lupack
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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A must-listen new audio book about filmmakers Ted and Leo Wharton, whose serials become popular in the 1910s.
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Silent Serial Sensations
- The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 15-04-20
- Language: English
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Gentlemen of the Shade: My Own Private Idaho
- Pop Classics
- By: Jen Sookfong Lee
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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Gus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternative Gus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the alternative and bring their outsider perspectives to sustainability, technology, gender constructs, and social responsibility.
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Gentlemen of the Shade: My Own Private Idaho
- Pop Classics
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Series: Pop Classics, Book 7
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 17-05-24
- Language: English
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The Academy and the Award
- The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- By: Bruce Davis
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
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For all the near-fanatic attention brought each year to the Academy Awards, the organization that dispenses those awards—the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—has yet to be understood. To date, no one has ever produced a thorough account of the Academy’s birth and its awkward adolescence, and the few reports on those periods from outside have always had a glancing, cursory quality. Yet the story of the Academy’s creation and development is a critical piece of Hollywood’s history. Now that story is finally being told.
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The Academy and the Award
- The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 11-10-22
- Language: English
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Jessica Lange
- An Adventurer's Heart
- By: Anthony Uzarowski
- Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Jessica Lange: An Adventurer's Heart, the first full-length biography of Lange, presents a comprehensive study of the life and work of an exceptional actress. Beginning with her upbringing in Minnesota, author Anthony Uzarowski traces Lange's formative years as a restless soul who found solace in art and a life on the road before turning to acting.
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Beautiful and Moving
- By Gardner22 on 01-10-23
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Jessica Lange
- An Adventurer's Heart
- Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-09-23
- Language: English
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Red Carpet
- Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy
- By: Erich Schwartzel
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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From trade to technology to military might, competition between the United States and China dominates the foreign policy landscape. But this battle for global influence is also playing out in a strange and unexpected arena: the movies. The film industry, Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel explains, is the latest battleground in the tense and complex rivalry between these two world powers. In recent decades, as China has grown into a giant of the international economy, it has become a crucial source of revenue for the American film industry.
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Red Carpet
- Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 08-02-22
- Language: English
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A Thousand Cuts
- The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies
- By: Dennis Bartok, Jeff Joseph
- Narrated by: Gary L Willprecht
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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A Thousand Cuts is a candid exploration of one of America's strangest and most quickly vanishing subcultures. It is about the death of physical film in the digital era and about a paranoid, secretive, eccentric, and sometimes obsessive group of film-mad collectors who made movies and their projection a private religion in the time before DVDs and Blu-rays.
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A Thousand Cuts
- The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies
- Narrated by: Gary L Willprecht
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 21-06-17
- Language: English
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Virtue Bombs
- How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul
- By: Christian Toto
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Hollywood’s Dream Factory is now a nightmare of woke restrictions, identity politics run amok, and freedom-snuffing rules and regulations. The Oscars are unwatchable, as are many films and television shows thanks to the woke revolution. Virtue Bombs breaks down where Hollywood went so wrong, illustrates the slow-motion disaster infiltrating the industry, and offers a glimmer of hope for a woke-free tomorrow. Award-winning film critic Christian Toto has all the receipts, showcasing Hollywood’s virtue-signaling follies and how it could get much worse before it gets better.
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Fantastic book on Woke Hollywood
- By TH on 27-03-22
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Virtue Bombs
- How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 18-01-22
- Language: English
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The Science of Harry Potter
- The Spellbinding Science Behind the Magic, Gadgets, Potions, and More!
- By: Mark Brake, Jon Chase
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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How does magic in J. K. Rowling’s universe work? Finally, the scientific secrets of the Harry Potter universe are revealed! The Science of Harry Potter examines the scientific principles behind some of the spells, scenes, and games that Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Dumbledore love best. Author Mark Brake, whose The Science of Star Wars was a knockout success, has found the answers to satisfy the curious spirits of muggles everywhere.
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The Science of Harry Potter
- The Spellbinding Science Behind the Magic, Gadgets, Potions, and More!
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 24-08-21
- Language: English
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Apocalypse Television
- How the Day After Helped End the Cold War
- By: David Craig, Robert Iger - foreword
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Apocalypse Television features a dramatic insider's account of the making of and backlash against The Day After. No other book has told this story in similar fashion, venturing behind-the-scenes of the programming and news divisions at ABC, the backlash from the conservative movement and Religious Right, the challenges encountered by the film's production team, and the experiences of the citizens of Lawrence, Kansas, where the film was set and shot.
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Apocalypse Television
- How the Day After Helped End the Cold War
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 09-04-24
- Language: English
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Kindness and Wonder
- Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever
- By: Gavin Edwards
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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For more than 30 years, Fred Rogers was a beloved fixture in American homes. Warm and welcoming, he spoke directly to children - and their parents - about the marvels of the world, the things that worried them, and above all, the importance of being themselves. Dressed in his cardigan and sneakers, Fred Rogers offered a wholesome message of generosity and love that changed the landscape of television and shaped a generation of children. Kindness and Wonder pays tribute to this cultural icon: the unique, gentle man who embodied the best of what we could be.
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Kindness and Wonder
- Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 29-10-19
- Language: English
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Movie Freak
- My Life Watching Movies
- By: Owen Gleiberman
- Narrated by: Owen Gleiberman
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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Owen Gleiberman has spent his life watching movies-first at the drive-in, where his parents took him to see wildly inappropriate adult fare like Rosemary's Baby when he was a wide-eyed 9 year old, then as a possessed cinemaniac who became a film critic right out of college. In Movie Freak, his enthrallingly candid, funny, and eye-opening memoir, Gleiberman captures what it's like to live life through the movies, existing in thrall to a virtual reality that becomes, over time, more real than reality itself.
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Movie Freak
- My Life Watching Movies
- Narrated by: Owen Gleiberman
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 23-02-16
- Language: English
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Baseball: The Movie
- By: Noah Gittell
- Narrated by: Noah Gittell
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and mythologizes all it touches, has long been the ideal medium to canonize this aspirational idea.
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Baseball: The Movie
- Narrated by: Noah Gittell
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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