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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    • By: Merrill Markoe, Megan Koester
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,753 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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    • 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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    • 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 66 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 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 208 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author Scott Eyman tells the story of the remarkable friendship of two Hollywood legends....

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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 3 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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    • 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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    • 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 17 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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    • 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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    • Lessons from a Life of Watching Women in Movies
    • By: Alicia Malone
    • Narrated by: Brigid Lohrey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • With humor and honesty, Girls on Film looks at the good, the bad, and the unfairly written women in film....

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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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    • 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 6,715 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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    • The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream
    • By: Ellin Stein
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The untold story behind a revolution in American comedy....

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    • Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference
    • By: Richard O. Prum
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Sure to inspire a conversation, Performance All the Way Down is a book about biology for feminists, a book about feminist theory for biologists, and a book for anyone curious about how our sexual bodies grow....

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    • Performing Blackness in America
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • For more than 30 years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has presented a rich and resourceful set of ideas about American history and culture....

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    • By: Alicia Malone
    • Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Backwards and in Heels tells the history of women in film in a different way, with stories about incredible ladies who made their mark throughout each era of Hollywood, from the first women directors to iconic movie stars and present-day activists....

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    • An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
    • By: Kier-La Janisse
    • Narrated by: Kier-La Janisse
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films....

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    • How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
    • By: Peter Biskind
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Instead of focusing on one service, like HBO, Pandora’s Box asks, “What did HBO do, besides give us The Sopranos?” The answer: It gave us a revolution....

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