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- De Aurey C. en 04-13-17
De: Dennis O'Neil - editor, y otros
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The Devil Finds Work
- An Essay
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 3 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 116
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Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America's self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Critical Masterpiece.
- De Ramon McGee en 05-10-18
De: James Baldwin
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Story
- Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
- De: Robert McKee
- Narrado por: Robert McKee
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,230
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,486
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,451
Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress, and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese, and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives, and agents all flock to his lecture series, praising it as a mesmerizing and intense learning experience.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Only 5 Chapters
- De Stephen Buck en 02-15-11
De: Robert McKee
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The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock
- An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
- De: Edward White
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Author Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon - what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world. Illuminating different aspects of Hitchcock's life and work, the book's 12 chapters reveal something fundamental about the man he was and the mythological creature he has become, presenting not just the life Hitchcock lived, but also the various versions of himself that he projected and those projected on his behalf.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Good History of Hitch
- De aaron en 07-31-21
De: Edward White
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Shock Value
- How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror
- De: Jason Zinoman
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 298
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 261
Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but while Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola were making their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror film - aggressive, raw, and utterly original. Based on unprecedented access to the genre's major players, New York Times critic Jason Zinoman's Shock Value delivers the first definitive account of horror's golden age.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good listen, but narrow in scope
- De Billy en 01-31-13
De: Jason Zinoman
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Save the Cat!
- The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
- De: Blake Snyder
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 5 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,748
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,416
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,402
Here's what started the phenomenon: This book has been a best seller for over 15 years and has been used by screenwriters around the world! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny, and candid look inside the movie business. Save the Cat is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't waste your time
- De Amazon Customer en 02-05-20
De: Blake Snyder
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Sontag
- Her Life and Work
- De: Benjamin Moser
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 87
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No writer is as emblematic of the American 20th century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Cloying voice
- De Suzanne en 11-02-19
De: Benjamin Moser
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The View from the Bridge
- Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood
- De: Nicholas Meyer
- Narrado por: Nicholas Meyer
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
When Nicholas Meyer was asked to direct the troubled second Star Trek film, he was something less than a true believer. A best-selling author and successful director, he had never been a fan of the TV series. But as he began to ponder the appeal of Kirk, Spock, et al., he realized that their story was a classical nautical adventure yarn transplanted into space and - armed with that insight - set out on his mission: to revitalize Trek.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mostly good
- De David W Braddock en 06-07-21
De: Nicholas Meyer
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Last Days at Hot Slit
- The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
- De: Andrea Dworkin, Johanna Fateman - editor and introduction, Amy Scholder - editor
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 24
Radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within the women's movement, infamous for her antipornography stance and her role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s. Last Days at Hot Slit brings together selections from Dworkin's work, both fiction and nonfiction, with the aim of putting the contentious positions she's best known for in dialogue with her literary oeuvre. It includes “Goodbye to All This” (1983), a scathing chapter from an unpublished manuscript.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Almost perfect reading
- De Paul en 04-02-20
De: Andrea Dworkin, y otros
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The Horror of It All
- One Moviegoer’s Love Affair with Masked Maniacs, Frightened Virgins, and the Living Dead…
- De: Adam Rockoff
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
The Horror of It All is a memoir from the front lines of the industry that dissects (and occasionally defends) the hugely popular phenomenon of scary movies. Author Adam Rockoff traces the highs and lows of the horror genre through the lens of his own obsessive fandom, born in the aisles of his local video store and nurtured with a steady diet of cable trash.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, if you were a teen in the 80's
- De Lila Fowler en 10-02-15
De: Adam Rockoff
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Fury
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Salman Rushdie
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
The world renowned author of The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie is a Whitbread Award winner and recipient of the Booker Prize. His first truly American novel, Fury is a metaphorically rich black comedy that reflects the pressure-cooker of modern life. Malik Solanka, irascible doll-maker and retired historian of ideas, suffers the pain of wanting without knowing exactly what it is he wants.
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5 out of 5 stars
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surprisingly good
- De David en 11-21-07
De: Salman Rushdie
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No Name in the Street
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 5 h
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 396
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 340
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 336
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent '60s and early '70s displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain - the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood, and his return to the American South to confront a violent America face-to-face.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A strange and terrible vehicle
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-20
De: James Baldwin
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Immortality
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cerebral Crosswinds in Parisian fields
- De W Perry Hall en 01-13-14
De: Milan Kundera
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I Love the Bones of You
- De: Christopher Eccleston
- Narrado por: Christopher Eccleston
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 110
Be it as Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends In The North, Maurice in The A Word, or his reinvention of Doctor Who, one man, in life and death, has accompanied Christopher Eccleston every step of the way – his father Ronnie. In I Love The Bones Of You, Eccleston unveils a vivid portrait of a relationship that has shaped his entire career trajectory, mirroring and defining his own highs and lows, from stage and screen triumph to breakdown, anorexia, self-doubt, and a deep belief in the basic principles of access and equality denied to generations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A kinder view of a loved one
- De Robin Casey en 11-03-19
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Wasteland
- The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
- De: W. Scott Poole
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 302
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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In the early 20th century, World War I was the most devastating event humanity had yet experienced. New machines of war left tens of millions killed or wounded in the most grotesque of ways. The Great War remade the world's map, created new global powers, and brought forth some of the biggest problems still facing us today. But it also birthed a new art form: the horror film, made from the fears of a generation ruined by war. From Nosferatu to Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man, the touchstones of horror can all trace their roots to the bloodshed of the First World War.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An interesting take
- De CN en 07-30-19
De: W. Scott Poole
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The Republic of Imagination
- America in Three Books
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love
- De Rebecca en 05-29-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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Myra Breckinridge
- A Novel (Myra and Myron, Book 1)
- De: Gore Vidal, Camille Paglia - introduction
- Narrado por: Michelle Hendley, Camille Paglia
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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"I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess." So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instructor of Empathy and Posture at Buck Loner's Academy of Drama and Modeling. Myra has a secret that only her surgeon shares; a passion for classic Hollywood films, which she regards as the supreme achievements of Western culture; and a sacred mission to bring heteronormative civilization to its knees. Fifty years after its first publication unleashed gales of laughter, delight, and ferocious dissent, Myra's moment to instruct and delight has once again arrived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well performed
- De Kenny D en 06-08-19
De: Gore Vidal, y otros