Derek A. Estes
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House of Psychotic Women
- An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
- De: Kier-La Janisse
- Narrado por: Kier-La Janisse
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 15
Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. Unlike her male counterpart—the eccentric'—the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play.
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5 out of 5 stars
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House of Psychotic Outsiders
- De Nicholas A. Sanchez en 03-25-24
- House of Psychotic Women
- An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
- De: Kier-La Janisse
- Narrado por: Kier-La Janisse
Essential Reading or Listening
Revisado: 10-31-23
So glad to have an audio version of Kier-La Janisse’s now classic memoir, film analysis read by the author.
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Buster Keaton
- A Filmmaker's Life
- De: James Curtis
- Narrado por: David Pittu
- Duración: 31 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
It was James Agee who christened Buster Keaton “The Great Stone Face.” Keaton’s face, Agee wrote, "ranked almost with Lincoln’s as an early American archetype; it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet it was also irreducibly funny. Keaton was the only major comedian who kept sentiment almost entirely out of his work and . . . he brought pure physical comedy to its greatest heights.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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A well-researched, entertaining expose
- De Ed Pegg Jr en 02-17-22
- Buster Keaton
- A Filmmaker's Life
- De: James Curtis
- Narrado por: David Pittu
The Great Buster Keaton
Revisado: 06-02-22
This is the finest and most thorough biography of Buster Keaton I’ve found. I’ve been a huge fan of Buster Keaton’s films for many years and this biography was so wonderful that my love for him is even greater. I especially appreciate how Curtis gives thoughtful consideration to the work Keaton did after the silent era, which for too long has been wholly dismissed as a pathetic coda to his acknowledged independent masterpieces. Buster Keaton left us with a legacy of some of the most sublime and evergreen films ever created, and this book gives an honest and thoughtful account of the real person and the circumstances that created his particular and extraordinary genius. This recording was also incredibly well narrated.
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Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity
- Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
- De: Scott Balcerzak
- Narrado por: Gary Roelofs
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3
In Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity, Scott Balcerzak reads the performances of notable comedians such as W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello through humor and queer theory to expose a problematic history of maleness in their personas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very good
- De Kindle Customer en 10-17-22
- Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity
- Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
- De: Scott Balcerzak
- Narrado por: Gary Roelofs
A must listen for anyone interested in classic Hollywood
Revisado: 05-20-22
This was a captivating listen. I’ve been a fan of classic Hollywood comedies since I was a kid, and have loved and enjoyed the unconventional representation of masculinity in these films, but this book definitely put so many things into focus, and illuminated so many aspects that I only assumed had been unintentional, yet now seem to be part of the very fabric of the comedy itself. It would probably fill another book, but I would have loved for the author to have talked a bit about the gender and sexual fluidity in American animation, such as The Looney Tunes, but since so much of that comedy is influenced by the comedians discussed in this book, I guess it’s just a continuation of what is discussed here.
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The Fall and Rise of China
- De: Richard Baum, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Richard Baum
- Duración: 24 h y 8 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,792
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,772
For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth. And for us as Westerners, it is essential to understand where China has been in order to anticipate its future. These 36 eye-opening lectures deliver a comprehensive political and historical overview of one of the most fascinating and complex countries in world history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Offers excellent objective perspective!
- De Yu-Chin en 12-15-13
- The Fall and Rise of China
- De: Richard Baum, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Richard Baum
Fantastically informative
Revisado: 04-19-21
Richard Baum, and his expertise as a China watcher will be greatly missed. I’m so grateful these lectures were recorded before his passing. I’ve listened to this twice and I’ve come away having learned far more than I anticipated.
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