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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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The Camera Lies
- Acting for Hitchcock
- By: Dan Callahan
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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The Camera Lies unpacks Hitchcock's legacy both as a director who continuously taught audiences to distrust appearance and as a man with an uncanny insight into the human capacity for deceit and misinterpretation.
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The Camera Lies
- Acting for Hitchcock
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 29-09-20
- Language: English
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Sensing the Past
- Hollywood Stars and Historical Vision
- By: Jim Cullen
- Narrated by: David Gassaway
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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How do perceptions of the past - not just of particular events, but of the trajectory of history as a whole - shape our experience of the world? Sensing the Past tackles this question with an unlikely source of historical insight - the work of six major Hollywood stars: Clint Eastwood, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and Jodie Foster. By focusing on the career choices made by these iconic actors, Cullen uncovers a discrete set of historical narratives, revealing the surprising ways historical forces shape our understanding of the world.
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Sensing the Past
- Hollywood Stars and Historical Vision
- Narrated by: David Gassaway
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 17-12-13
- Language: English
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How to Hitchcock (German edition)
- Meine Reise durch das Hitchcock-Universum
- By: Jens Wawrczeck
- Narrated by: Jens Wawrczeck
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Wawrczeck zeichnet ein subjektives Porträt eines der größten Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Man sitzt mit ihm vor dem Fernseher, wenn er den ersten Hitchcock-Film sieht, begleitet ihn ins Tonstudio zu den Aufnahmen der "Drei ???" und zieht mit ihm durch die Welt: Von Hamburg über New York, von Bodega Bay nach London, immer auf der Spur von Hitchcocks Meisterwerken. Er erzählt, wie ihm Hitchcocks Filme bei der Suche nach der eigenen Identität halfen und ihm zeigten, dass die Beantwortung der Frage "Bin ich verrückt oder sind es die anderen?" immer vom Standpunkt abhängt.
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How to Hitchcock (German edition)
- Meine Reise durch das Hitchcock-Universum
- Narrated by: Jens Wawrczeck
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 16-11-23
- Language: German
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The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing
- Pop Classics
- By: Andrea Warner
- Narrated by: Stephanie Németh Parker
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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In The Time of My Life, celebrated music journalist Andrea Warner excavates the layers of Dirty Dancing, from its anachronistic, chart-topping soundtrack, to Baby and Johnny’s chemistry, to Bergstein’s political intentions, to the abortion subplot that is more relevant today than ever. The film’s remarkable longevity would never have been possible if it was just a throwaway summer fling story. It is precisely because of its themes—deeply feminist, sensitively written—that we, over 30 years later, are still holding our breath during that last, exhilarating lift.
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The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing
- Pop Classics
- Narrated by: Stephanie Németh Parker
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 09-04-24
- Language: English
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Dark Shadows
- Return to Collinwood - 50th Anniversary Anthology
- By: Kathryn Leigh Scott, Jim Pierson, David Selby - contributor, and others
- Narrated by: David Selby, Lara Parker, Jim Pierson, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood presents a look back at four decades of the successful, spooky soap opera that made sympathetic vampire Barnabas Collins a pop-culture phenomenon and prompted the big-budget big-screen Warner Bros. revival starring longtime fan Johnny Depp, directed by Tim Burton, that premiered May 11, 2012. With the ongoing fascination for all things vampiric, this audiobook about the making of the new film and the history of the original series will be an enticing volume for new and old fans alike.
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Dark Shadows
- Return to Collinwood - 50th Anniversary Anthology
- Narrated by: David Selby, Lara Parker, Jim Pierson, Kathryn Leigh Scott
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 13-10-20
- Language: English
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Bullets over Bombay
- Satya and the Hindi Film Gangster
- By: Uday Bhatia
- Narrated by: Faraz Khan
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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In 1998, Satya opened to widespread critical acclaim. At a time when Bollywood was still rediscovering romance, Ram Gopal Varma's film dared to imagine the ordinary life of a Mumbai gangster. It kicked off a new wave of Hindi gangster films that depicted a vital, gritty side of Mumbai, rarely shown in mainstream cinema until then. More than two decades later, it has become an iconic film. When it was released, the regular moviegoer would have been hard-pressed to recognize more than a couple of names in the film's credits.
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Bullets over Bombay
- Satya and the Hindi Film Gangster
- Narrated by: Faraz Khan
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 28-02-22
- Language: English
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The Gospel According to the Simpsons
- The Spiritual Life of the World's Most Animated Family
- By: Mark Pinksy
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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How did The Simpsons, one of the most popular television shows in history, go from being attacked by many religious leaders for its lack of family values to being called one of the most theologically relevant programs in prime time? Religion journalist Mark Pinsky explores the individual characters, interviews several of the show's writers and producers, and concludes with a theological discussion.
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The Gospel According to the Simpsons
- The Spiritual Life of the World's Most Animated Family
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 11-02-09
- Language: English
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Harlan Ellison's Watching
- Essays and Criticism
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
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Everyone’s a critic, especially in the digital age—but no one takes on the movies like multiple award-winning author Harlan Ellison. Renowned both for fiction (A Boy and His Dog) and pop-culture commentary (The Glass Teat), Ellison offers in this collection twenty-five years’ worth of essays and film criticism.
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Harlan Ellison's Watching
- Essays and Criticism
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
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Begin Transmission
- The Trans Allegories of The Matrix
- By: Tilly Bridges
- Narrated by: Tilly Bridges
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Trans woman and screenwriter Tilly Bridges takes you through the trans allegories of the Matrix franchise, with deep dives into The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Animatrix, The Matrix Revolutions, and The Matrix Resurrections, tracking one person’s transition journey—from Thomas Anderson, to Neo… to Trinity. Each movie’s allegory is deeply layered, building from movie to movie, and speaks to a different aspect of trans existence.
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- The Trans Allegories of The Matrix
- Narrated by: Tilly Bridges
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 21-11-23
- Language: English
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Movies (And Other Things)
- By: Shea Serrano
- Narrated by: Mario Toscano
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Movies (And Other Things) is a book about, quite frankly, movies (and other things). One of the chapters, for example, answers which race Kevin Costner was able to white savior the best, because did you know that he white saviors Mexicans in McFarland, USA, and white saviors Native Americans in Dances with Wolves, and white saviors Black people in Black or White, and white saviors the Cleveland Browns in Draft Day? Another of the chapters creates a special version of the Academy Awards specifically for rom-coms, the most underrated movie genre of all.
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Clunky writing, annoying narration
- By lewis john williams on 16-10-19
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Movies (And Other Things)
- Narrated by: Mario Toscano
- Series: (And Other Things)
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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Susie Bright's Erotic Screen
- The Golden Hardcore & the Shimmering Dyke-Core (The Erotic Screen, Book 1)
- By: Susie Bright
- Narrated by: Susie Bright
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Susie Bright, “The Pauline Kael of Porn” (SF Chronicle), rips open the history of erotic cinema before the internet— from the Golden Age of lavish 35mm hardcore, to the video-inspired “Porno Spring”, initiated by none other than punk, feminist, and lesbian video-makers.
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Susie Bright's Erotic Screen
- The Golden Hardcore & the Shimmering Dyke-Core (The Erotic Screen, Book 1)
- Narrated by: Susie Bright
- Series: The Erotic Screen, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-11-22
- Language: English
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Best Movie Ever
- An Oral History of Kaplan and Elfont's "Josie and the Pussycats"
- By: Russ Burlingame
- Narrated by: Honey St. Dennis
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Based on characters created by Archie Comics, Josie and the Pussycats was a box office disappointment for MGM and Universal who produced and distributed the movie but has gone on to become a cult classic in the years since. Best Movie Ever is the product of dozens of hours of interviews with members of the movie’s cast and crew, as well as industry analysts, comic book creators, and the fans who helped keep the movie alive after the filmmakers had been told it was “dead on arrival".
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Best Movie Ever
- An Oral History of Kaplan and Elfont's "Josie and the Pussycats"
- Narrated by: Honey St. Dennis
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 14-09-22
- Language: English
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Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body
- By: Peter Lehman
- Narrated by: Doug Miller
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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In his analysis of films, novels, paintings, photographs, popular music, jokes, and videos, Peter Lehman investigates the patriarchal culture that keeps the male body, and especially male genitals, out of sight.
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Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body
- Narrated by: Doug Miller
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 17-03-16
- Language: English
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Splatter Capital
- By: Mark Steven
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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Splatter Capital shows how a subgenre of cinematic horror has developed a unique perspective on the cycles of capitalism. It argues that the messy brand of horror mobilized in gore or "splatter" films is extremely responsive to the internal contradictions that threaten the future sustainability of capitalist accumulation. And, while responding to the prospect of that end, splatter promotes an extant truth: capitalist accumulation is and always has been a nightmare of systematized bloodshed.
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gore-tastic book on Horror and socialism.
- By isaac kneebone-hopkins on 31-03-21
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Splatter Capital
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 16-03-17
- Language: English
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The Science of James Bond
- By: Lois H. Gresh, Robert Weinberg
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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From the sleek Aston Martin that spits out bullets, nails, and passengers at the push of a button to the microjet that makes hairpin turns to avoid a heat-seeking missile, the science and technology of James Bond films have kept millions of movie fans guessing for decades. Are these amazing feats and gadgets truly possible? The Science of James Bond takes you on a fascinating excursion through the true science that underlies Bond's most fantastic and off-the-wall accoutrements.
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The Science of James Bond
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-07-10
- Language: English
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2001: Beyond the Infinite
- By: Dr. John L. Flynn
- Narrated by: Mike Kuhlman
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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When 2001: A Space Odyssey opened on April 3, 1968, science fiction films were not well-regarded by critics. In fact, most considered them to be juvenile, with little intellectual or artistic value. Except for a few clever efforts like Forbidden Planet and Planet of the Apes, they were mostly low budget quickies that featured lurid monsters and cardboard rocket ships.
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2001: Beyond the Infinite
- Narrated by: Mike Kuhlman
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 02-03-20
- Language: English
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Further Exhumed
- The Strange Case of Phantasm Ravager
- By: Dustin McNeill
- Narrated by: Christian Francis
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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The fifth and final PHANTASM took an incredible eight years to go from set to screen. The project began as an experimental short before becoming a 13-part web series and finally a feature length sequel. Shot in secret on a microbudget, RAVAGER reunites PHANTASM's core cast 35 years after the original cult classic. The new sequel filmed not in Hollywood soundstages but in the homes of cast and crew. Visual effects were handled mostly by the director.
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Very disappointing after the first one
- By Matthew Lee Dykes on 31-08-23
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Further Exhumed
- The Strange Case of Phantasm Ravager
- Narrated by: Christian Francis
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 02-02-21
- Language: English
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The CIA in Hollywood
- How the Agency Shapes Film and Television
- By: Tricia Jenkins
- Narrated by: Caroline Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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The CIA in Hollywood offers the first full-scale investigation of the relationship between the Agency and the film and television industries. Tricia Jenkins draws on numerous interviews with the CIA's public affairs staff, operations officers, and historians, as well as with Hollywood technical consultants, producers, and screenwriters who have worked with the Agency, to uncover the nature of the CIA's role in Hollywood.
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The CIA in Hollywood
- How the Agency Shapes Film and Television
- Narrated by: Caroline Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 22-08-12
- Language: English
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Madness at the Movies
- Understanding Mental Illness Through Film
- By: James Charney MD
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
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The study of classic and contemporary films can provide a powerful avenue to understand the experience of mental illness. In Madness at the Movies, James Charney, MD, a practicing psychiatrist and long-time cinephile, examines films that delve deeply into characters’ inner worlds, and he analyzes moments that help define their particular mental illness.
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Madness at the Movies
- Understanding Mental Illness Through Film
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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