Performance Studies

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    • By: Jack Halberstam
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • 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....

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    • How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
    • By: Amanda E. Lewis, John B. Diamond
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers? Find out....

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    • An Introduction
    • By: Ed Sikov
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Film Studies is an indispensable introduction to the study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and training the spectator to be an active listener and critic....

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    • By: Merrill Markoe, Megan Koester
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,748 ratings
    • It’s the 21st Century. Why the hell are women - 51% of the population - being treated like second class citizens? The Indignities of Being a Woman candidly traces the history of womanhood and investigates how much things have really changed for womankind....

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    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • By: Samantha Barbas
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

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    • The Story of In Living Color and the Black Comedy Revolution
    • By: David Peisner
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • Few television shows revolutionized comedy as profoundly or have had such an enormous impact as In Living Color. Now, Homey Don't Play That! reveals the complete, captivating story of how In Living Color overcame enormous odds to become a major, zeitgeist-seizing hit....

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    • The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
    • By: Scott Eyman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author Scott Eyman tells the story of the remarkable friendship of two Hollywood legends....

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    • Gender in the Modern Horror Film
    • By: Carol J. Clover
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s....

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    • The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
    • By: W. Scott Poole
    • Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature....

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    • Race, Class and Sex at the Movies
    • By: Bell Hooks
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Movies matter—that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks' classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences, and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues....

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    • HBR 20-Minute Manager Series
    • By: Harvard Business Review
    • Narrated by: Mark Cabus
    • Series: 20 Minute Manager: Virtual Work
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Conducting performance reviews can be stressful. But these conversations are critical to your employees' development, allowing you to formally communicate with them about their accomplishments relative to their goals. Performance Reviews guides you through the basics....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Donna Kornhaber
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Encompassing the 35 year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema's silent era is both one of the most important epochs of film history and one of the most misunderstood....

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    • The Genius and the Absurdity
    • By: Iliza Shlesinger
    • Narrated by: Mayim Bialik, Iliza Shlesinger
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,707 ratings
    • From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on a confident woman's approach to friendship, singlehood, and relationships....

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    • By: Richard Rambuss
    • Narrated by: Brian Holden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future. The persistent theme of his filmmaking is less violence or sex than it is the pressurized exertion of masculinity in unusual or extreme circumstances....

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    • Vocal Performance by Max McLean
    • By: Zondervan
    • Narrated by: Max McLean
    • Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Before you could tuck it under your arm, before you could bring it up on your phone–you did not read Scripture, you listened to it. For centuries, the only way to access God’s Word was to hear it read aloud in public gatherings.

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    • How a Band of Broadcasters Took on the Federal Government and Built the Modern Conservative Movement
    • By: Paul Matzko
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The Radio Right tells the story of the 1960s far right, who were frustrated by what they perceived to be liberal bias in the national media, particularly the media's sycophantic relationship with the John F. Kennedy administration....

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    • Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News
    • By: Jason Holt
    • Narrated by: Jeff Preston
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • An entertaining and insightful examination of the Emmy-award winning American satirical news show, broadcast on Comedy Central in the US, and (in an edited edition) on More4 in the UK and CNN International around the world....

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