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In the Blink of an Eye
- A Perspective on Film Editing, 2nd Edition
- By: Walter Murch, Francis Ford Coppola
- Narrated by: Chris Brinkley
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
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In this second edition, Murch reconsiders and completely revises his popular first edition's lengthy meditation on digital editing (which accounts for a third of the book's runtime) in light of the technological changes that have taken place in the six years since its publication.
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In the Blink of an Eye
- A Perspective on Film Editing, 2nd Edition
- Narrated by: Chris Brinkley
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 10-09-24
- Language: English
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
- How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
- By: Peter Biskind
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 23 hrs and 41 mins
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Easy Rider, Raging Bulls follows the wild ride that was Hollywood in the 70s - an unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (both on screen and off) and a climate where innovation and experimentation reigned supreme.
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Hard Hitting and often Difficult...
- By Colin on 09-11-17
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
- How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 23 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-11-08
- Language: English
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The Way Hollywood Tells It
- Story and Style in Modern Movies
- By: David Bordwell
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today's bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers have created a durable tradition - one that we should not be ashamed to call artistic, and one that survives in both mainstream entertainment and niche-marketed indie cinema. Bordwell traces the continuity of this tradition in a wide array of films made since 1960.
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Rare academic audiobook
- By Thomas on 25-12-12
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The Way Hollywood Tells It
- Story and Style in Modern Movies
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-09-10
- Language: English
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The Film Music of John Williams
- Reviving Hollywood's Classical Style
- By: Emilio Audissino
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
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From the triumphant “Main Title” in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores—while netting more than fifty Academy Award nominations. This updated and revised edition of Emilio Audissino’s groundbreaking volume takes stock of Williams’s creative process and achievements in music composition, including the most recent sequels in the film franchises that made him famous. Audissino details his lasting impact and cements his legacy as one of the most important composers in movie history.
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The Film Music of John Williams
- Reviving Hollywood's Classical Style
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 04-10-22
- Language: English
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The Coen Brothers
- By: Adam Nayman
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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From such cult hits as Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski to major critical darlings Fargo, No Country for Old Men, and Inside Llewyn Davis, Ethan and Joel Coen have cultivated a bleakly comical, instantly recognizable voice in modern American cinema. Film critic Adam Nayman carefully sifts through their complex cinematic universe in an effort to plot, as he puts it, "some Grand Unified Theory of Coen-ness." The book combines critical text with a visual aesthetic that honors the Coens' singular mix of darkness and levity.
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would that it were so blood simple
- By John O'Callaghan on 18-01-23
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The Coen Brothers
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 11-09-18
- Language: English
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De Niro
- A Life
- By: Shawn Levy
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 21 hrs and 38 mins
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In this elegant and compelling biography, best-selling writer Shawn Levy writes of these many De Niros - the characters and the man - seeking to understand the evolution of an actor who once dove deeply into his roles as if to hide his inner nature, and who now seemingly avoids acting challenges, taking roles which make few apparent demands on his overwhelming talent.
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Boring reading
- By Amazon Customer on 13-07-17
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De Niro
- A Life
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 21 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 28-10-14
- Language: English
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Feel Free
- Essays
- By: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Nikki Amuka-Bird
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essays. No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to the environment, from Jay-Z to Karl Ove Knausgaard, she has boundless curiosity and the boundless wit to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political debate all get the Zadie Smith treatment, dissected with razor-sharp intellect.
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Fascinating
- By Philip on 21-01-19
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Feel Free
- Essays
- Narrated by: Nikki Amuka-Bird
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-02-18
- Language: English
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39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss
- The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There
- By: Tom Davis
- Narrated by: Tom Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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i>39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is a seriously funny, offbeat, and irreverent memoir that chronicles the early days of Saturday Night Live and features some of its greatest personalities---Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Michael O'Donoghue, and Chris Farley.
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drugs, drugs and drugs and roll
- By Deano Frank on 10-12-18
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39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss
- The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There
- Narrated by: Tom Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 24-03-09
- Language: English
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Doctor Who: Pull to Open
- The Creation of Doctor Who
- By: Paul Hayes
- Narrated by: Christopher Naylor
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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Christopher Naylor reads the inside story of how the BBC created and launched Doctor Who. In early 1963, a chain of events led to the creation of what would become one of the best-loved, and most successful, of all British television programmes. This is the tale of how Doctor Who embarked upon its epic journey - one which still continues today. It is also the story of the people involved, from Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson to Verity Lambert, Waris Hussein and William Hartnell.
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Fascinating detailed history
- By Amazon Customer on 09-11-24
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Doctor Who: Pull to Open
- The Creation of Doctor Who
- Narrated by: Christopher Naylor
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek
- How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television
- By: Thea Glassman, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong - foreword
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Life, Dawson’s Creek, Freaks and Geeks, The O.C., Friday Night Lights, and Glee) that shaped the course of modern television and our pop cultural landscape forever.
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Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek
- How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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Lost
- Back to the Island: The Complete Critical Companion to the Classic TV Series
- By: Emily St. James, Noel Murray
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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For fans of one of the most successful and highly discussed shows in recent memory, LOST: Back to the Island is both a delightful time capsule and a rousing work of entertainment criticism.
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Lost
- Back to the Island: The Complete Critical Companion to the Classic TV Series
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 17-09-24
- Language: English
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
- By: Neil Postman
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
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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, and how "entertainment values" have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the requirements of television.
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You'll probably need to slow the narrator down
- By Robbee on 22-08-21
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 16-01-07
- Language: English
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Welcome to the O.C.
- The Oral History
- By: Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Alan Sepinwall
- Narrated by: Alan Sepinwall, Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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On August 5th, 2003, Ryan Atwood found himself a long way from his home in Chino—he was in The O.C., an exclusive suburb full of beautiful girls, wealthy bullies, corrupt real-estate tycoons, and a new family helmed by his public defender, Sandy Cohen. Ryan soon warms up to his nerdy, indie band-loving new best friend Seth, and quickly falls for Marissa, the stunning girl next door who has secrets of her own. Completing the group is Summer, Seth’s dream girl and Marissa’s loyal—and fearless—best friend.
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Fantastic
- By Zosia Dynia on 18-12-23
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Welcome to the O.C.
- The Oral History
- Narrated by: Alan Sepinwall, Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Josh Bloomberg, Robert Fass, Andrew Eiden, Fred Sanders, Ewan Chung, Kaleo Griffith, Michael David Axtell, Alyssa Bresnahan, Karissa Vacker, Therese Plummer, Amy Landon, full cast
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 28-11-23
- Language: English
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The Music of James Bond
- By: Jon Burlingame
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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The story of the music that accompanies the cinematic adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life drama. In The Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio and courtroom doors alike to reveal the full and extraordinary history of the sounds of James Bond, spicing the story with a wealth of fascinating and previously undisclosed tales.
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An interesting journey through the music of Bond
- By Film fan on 02-02-20
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The Music of James Bond
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 06-02-14
- Language: English
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He's Got Rhythm
- The Life and Career of Gene Kelly (Screen Classics)
- By: Cynthia Brideson, Sara Brideson
- Narrated by: Cynthia Wallace
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
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One of the most influential and respected entertainers of Hollywood's golden age, Gene Kelly revolutionized film musicals with his innovative and timeless choreography. A would-be baseball player and one-time law student, Kelly captured the nation's imagination in films such as Anchors Aweigh (1945), On the Town (1949), An American in Paris (1951), and Singin' in the Rain (1952). In the first comprehensive biography written since the legendary star's death, authors Cynthia Brideson and Sara Brideson disclose new details of Kelly's complex life.
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Great bio of the legendary Gene Kelly
- By Bryan James on 03-11-19
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He's Got Rhythm
- The Life and Career of Gene Kelly (Screen Classics)
- Narrated by: Cynthia Wallace
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 24-10-19
- Language: English
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James Gandolfini
- The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano
- By: Dan Bischoff
- Narrated by: John Ventimiglia
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano is the first biography of the actor, who died in June 2013 at age 51, widely recognized as one of the best - and most defining - actors of his generation. The audiobook, as performed by Gandolfini's Sopranos co-star John Ventimiglia (Artie Bucco), is informed by fresh interviews with Sopranos actors, HBO executives, the star’s acting teachers and coaches, his childhood friends, buddies from his days as a nightclub bouncer, and Hollywood figures including the directors of his posthumously released films.
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very good biography
- By James lee griffiths on 26-01-18
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James Gandolfini
- The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano
- Narrated by: John Ventimiglia
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-04-14
- Language: English
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Superficial
- More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries
- By: Andy Cohen
- Narrated by: Andy Cohen
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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Hopping from the Hamptons to the Manhattan dating world, the dog park to the red carpet, Cardinals superfan and mama's boy Andy Cohen, with Wacha in tow, is the kind of star fans are dying to be friends with. This book gives them that chance. If The Andy Cohen Diaries was deemed "the literary equivalent of a Fresca and tequila" by Jimmy Fallon, Superficial is a double: dishier, juicier, and friskier. In this account of his escapades, Andy tells us not only what goes down but exactly what he thinks.
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BAD Sequel. Vapid. Bad Dog Owner. Full Of Self.
- By Alex Vasquez on 30-11-16
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Superficial
- More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries
- Narrated by: Andy Cohen
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 15-11-16
- Language: English
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I Should Have Been at Work
- By: Des Lynam
- Narrated by: Des Lynam
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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For 30 years Des Lynam has been the face of British sport. An unparalleled broadcaster, he has presented all the major sports events for the BBC and ITV. One of the most famous and best-loved men in the country, his popularity goes hand in hand with a slightly raffish reputation. For the first time this very private man tells his own story.
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Don't Bother
- By Angela on 04-02-13
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I Should Have Been at Work
- Narrated by: Des Lynam
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 11-01-06
- Language: English
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How Coppola Became Cage
- By: Zach Schonfeld
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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Brimming with previously untold stories and insights, How Coppola Became Cage both revels in and demystifies Cage's onscreen eccentricities. No other modern actor has explored such profound creative extremes while bending the boundaries of good taste. Here is the origin story of an actor who truly is wild at heart and weird on top.
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Totally enjoyed...Great history
- By Jackie on 25-01-24
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How Coppola Became Cage
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 26-12-23
- Language: English
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- How Three Friends Spent $200 to Create the Longest-Running Live-Action Sitcom in History and Help Build a Network
- By: Kimberly Potts
- Length: 8 hrs
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Charlie, Dennis, Mac, Sweet Dee, and Frank are deplorable characters. They will never mature, become more self-aware, or less self-involved. That is what the creators of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia are committed to—and that’s why the show’s millions of devoted fans have stuck with the cult comedy hit for over sixteen seasons and counting. As thoughtful, provocative, and engaging as the show itself, this book also explores how the show has pushed the envelope and used absurdist comedy to explore major societal issues, including the #MeToo movement, LGBTQ+ rights, racism, and more.
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- How Three Friends Spent $200 to Create the Longest-Running Live-Action Sitcom in History and Help Build a Network
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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