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A Psychologist Goes to the Movies
- Written by: Alex Swan, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Alex Swan
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
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In the six lectures of A Psychologist Goes to the Movies, taught by Dr. Swan, you’ll see what films can tell us about the human mind, from the experience of amnesia to the ethics of psychological research and so much more. Featuring six movies from a variety of genres, styles, and periods, these lectures will give you the opportunity to explore the principles of psychology and consider fascinating neurological theories through the immersive magic of the silver screen.
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A Psychologist Goes to the Movies
- Narrated by: Alex Swan
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 18-09-25
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of Genius
- The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
- Written by: Donald Spoto
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 23 hrs and 26 mins
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Acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto explores the roots of Hitchcock’s obsessions - with food, murder, and idealized love, among others - and traces the origins of his incomparable, bizarre genius, from his childhood and education to the golden years of his career. Based on interviews with his writers, actors, and longtime associates, and on exhaustive research, The Dark Side of Genius is the definitive biography of Alfred Hitchcock.
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The Dark Side of Genius
- The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 23 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 22-08-12
- Language: English
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Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots
- Written by: Norman Mailer
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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He prepared therefore for the meditative journey that proves most excruciating in Limbo, a rounding through the past, a trip back! It is a venture full of perils. To meditate on TV might prove equal to writing a recollection of an enemy one has never met and cannot quite believe in. Indeed, how to conceive of an enemy who is without personal animosity? It was like writing a memoir of an oxymoron. Limbo set its tasks.
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Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 06-03-17
- Language: English
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Slash and Grab: Horror of the 1980s
- Written by: Adam Jortner, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Adam Jortner
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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We can learn a lot about American history and culture by looking at the horror films of the 1980s. In the 10 lectures of Slash and Grab: Horror of the 1980s, you’ll follow Professor Adam Jortner as he examines how these films were created, why they were made, and what kind of reaction they sparked in American audiences.
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Slash and Grab: Horror of the 1980s
- Narrated by: Adam Jortner
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release Date: 02-10-25
- Language: English
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Miyazakiworld
- A Life in Art
- Written by: Susan Napier
- Narrated by: Susan Napier
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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A 13th-century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a red haired fish girl, and a furry woodland spirit - what do these have in common? They all spring from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki, one of the greatest living animators, known worldwide for films such as My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and The Wind Rises. Japanese culture and animation scholar Susan Napier explores the life and art of this extraordinary Japanese filmmaker to provide a definitive account of his oeuvre.
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Miyazakiworld
- A Life in Art
- Narrated by: Susan Napier
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 26-03-19
- Language: English
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The Directors: Take Two
- Written by: Robert J. Emery
- Narrated by: Melissa Reizian Frank, Torry Clark
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
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Today's most acclaimed film directors reveal intimate behind-the-scenes details of their most influential work and their unique approaches to their art. In the companion to the Silver Plaque-winning Starz/Encore documentary series, this book offers interviews with 13 top filmmakers. Contains each director's filmography, complete listings of major awards, and cast credits for all films discussed.
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The Directors: Take Two
- Narrated by: Melissa Reizian Frank, Torry Clark
- Series: The Directors, Book 2
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 01-02-13
- Language: English
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From The Wiz to Wakanda: Afrofuturism in Pop Culture
- Written by: Grace D. Gipson, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Grace D. Gipson
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
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Afrofuturism is a cultural movement that seeks to explore and transform the experience of the African diaspora. Stretching across multiple art forms and genres, the movement taps into the limitless potential of creativity and the imagination to envision Black liberation through stories, music, architecture, fashion, music, and so much more.
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From The Wiz to Wakanda: Afrofuturism in Pop Culture
- Narrated by: Grace D. Gipson
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release Date: 10-07-25
- Language: English
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Studio Ghibli (4th Edition)
- The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata
- Written by: Colin Odell, Michelle Le Blanc
- Narrated by: Abigail Reno
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are among the most respected in the movie industry. Their delightful films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new eagerly anticipated release a guaranteed box-office hit. Yet this highly profitable studio has remained fiercely independent, producing a stream of imaginative and individual animations. The studio's founders, the late Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, have created timeless masterpieces. Although their films are distinctly Japanese, their themes are universal.
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Studio Ghibli (4th Edition)
- The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata
- Narrated by: Abigail Reno
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release Date: 23-04-24
- Language: English
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Best of SXSW 2021
- Written by: SXSW LLC
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
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Audible is your year round badge to South By Southwest! While the 2021 Festival was entirely online, this year’s keynote speakers and panel sessions brought today's creators and innovators together for inspiring conversations.
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Best of Sundance Film Festival 2021
- Written by: The Sundance Film Festival
- Narrated by: John Nein
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Audible is proud to sponsor the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in our continued commitment to providing a home for bold creators and their extraordinary stories.
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The Art of Noir
- Featuring: The Stranger, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, and Bonus: Rebecca
- Written by: Orson Welles, Otto Preminger, Lewis Milestone,
- Narrated by: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young,
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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Film noir: the name comes from the French for “black” or “dark film.” It points to the central feature of the genre: mood. There is a darkness about film noir, a somberness accompanied by a thrill of dread and ever-present danger. This aura envelops wealthy heiresses, English aristocrats, tough-guy drifters, jazz musicians, drug dealers, and respected schoolteachers—all of whom have secrets to hide and much to lose if those secrets are unveiled.
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The Art of Noir
- Featuring: The Stranger, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, and Bonus: Rebecca
- Narrated by: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Barbara Stanwyck, Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, full cast, Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 14-01-25
- Language: English
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The Queer Art of Failure
- Written by: Jack Halberstam
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives.
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The Queer Art of Failure
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release Date: 12-03-19
- Language: English
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Elegía Joseph Cornell
- Written by: María Negroni
- Narrated by: Mariana Maciel
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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El presente texto es el registro de un descubrimiento de María Negroni: el cine de Joseph Cornell, artista del assemblage cercano al surrealismo que también cultivó el film-collage con un estilo lírico-documental, cuya capacidad de catalogar lo insólito fascinó a la poeta. A medio camino entre el poemario caligramático y el libro-arte, esta pequeña joya se lee como el diario íntimo de una observadora tras la estela de una imagen.
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Elegía Joseph Cornell
- Narrated by: Mariana Maciel
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release Date: 27-04-26
- Language: spanish
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The Academy and the Award
- The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Written 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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Terror rural y paganismo
- Written by: Dani Morell, Javier J. Valencia, José Ángel de Dios,
- Narrated by: Sergio Liébana
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
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Concienzudo y divertido ensayo sobre el folk horror, los credos más antiguos que el cristianismo arraigados en diferentes áreas del continente europeo que fueron origen de varias de las películas más emblemáticas de terror de las pasadas décadas. Una colección de ensayos de autores expertos tanto en cultura popular como en cine y en diferentes ramas de la sociología, que no solo analizan películas de culto, sino sus conexiones con los cultos europeos a las diferentes entidades de la naturaleza.
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Terror rural y paganismo
- Narrated by: Sergio Liébana
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 19-01-22
- Language: spanish
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De Niro
- A Life
- Written by: Shawn Levy
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 21 hrs and 38 mins
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REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY OF AN ICON There's little debate that Robert De Niro is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, screen actors of his generation, perhaps of all time. His work, particularly in the first 20 years of his career, is unparalleled. Mean Streets, the Godfather Part II, Taxi...
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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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Hollywood: The Oral History
- Written by: Jeanine Basinger, Sam Wasson
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon, Marni Penning
- Length: 28 hrs and 49 mins
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The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Harold Lloyd, and nearly four hundred others, assembled from the American Film Institute’s treasure trove of interviews, reveals a fresh history of the American movie...
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Hollywood: The Oral History
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon, Marni Penning
- Length: 28 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 08-11-22
- Language: English
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Eso no estaba en mi libro de historia del cine
- Written by: Javier Ortega Posadillo
- Narrated by: Rafael Rojas
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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¿Sabía que Akira Kurosawa, el director japonés más célebre y admirado, intentó quitarse la vida tras el fracaso comercial de Dodeskaden? ¿Que Martin Sheen sufrió un infarto durante el rodaje de Apocalypse Now, uno de los más infernales que se recuerdan? ¿Sabía que el principal creador del lenguaje cinematográfico era un fervoroso partidario del Ku Klux Klan? ¿Que en 1921 Fatty Arbuckle, uno de los cómicos más célebres de su tiempo, fue acusado de asesinar a la joven actriz Virginia Rappe?
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Eso no estaba en mi libro de historia del cine
- Narrated by: Rafael Rojas
- Series: Eso no estaba en mi libro de
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release Date: 18-10-21
- Language: spanish
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Stuntwomen
- The Untold Hollywood Story
- Written by: Mollie Gregory
- Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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They've traded punches in knockdown brawls, crashed biplanes through barns, and raced to the rescue in fast cars. They add suspense and drama to the story, portraying the swimmer stalked by the menacing shark, the heroine dangling 20 feet below a soaring hot air balloon, or the woman leaping nine feet over a wall to escape a dog attack. Only an expert can make such feats of daring look easy, and stuntwomen with the skills to perform - and survive - great moments of action in movies have been hitting their mark in Hollywood since the beginning of film.
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Stuntwomen
- The Untold Hollywood Story
- Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 25-08-20
- Language: English
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The Beauty of the Real
- What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses
- Written by: Mick LaSalle
- Narrated by: Phil Holland
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talent - a Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, and Garbo. In France, the joy of acting is alive and well. Scores of French actresses are doing the best work of their lives in movies tailored to their star images and unique personalities. Yet virtually no one this side of the Atlantic even knows about them. Viewers who feel shortchanged by Hollywood will be thrilled to discover The Beauty of the Real.
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The Beauty of the Real
- What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses
- Narrated by: Phil Holland
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release Date: 02-07-13
- Language: English
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