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  • The Genius of the System

    Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era

    by Thomas Schatz ...
    Unraveling the Myth: How Hollywood's Studio System Blended Business and ArtIn Genius of the System, renowned film historian Thomas Schatz provides an indispensable account of Hollywood's traditional blend of business and art during the studio era. Schatz challenges the persistent myth that businesspeople and producers stifled artistic talent, revealing instead the genius of a system built on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Power Surge

    Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System's Last Hurrah

    by Thomas Schatz ...
    From the author of The Genius of the System, the classic tale of Hollywood’s first golden age, comes the story of its last.Thomas Schatz returns us to an era when a newly enriched movie industry rediscovered its creative energy, and indie went mainstream without losing its edge.Between 1989 and 2004, all the old studios either merged with other media giants or were swallowed up by even bigger ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • Edna Ferber's Hollywood

    American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History

    by J. E. Smyth ...
    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
    Edna Ferber's Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century—the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studios. Ferber was one of America's most controversial popular historians, a writer whose uniquely feminist, multiracial view of the national past deliberately clashed with traditional narratives of white ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clint Eastwood: Icon

    The Essential Film Art Collection

    by David Frangioni, Thomas Schatz ...
    Featuring rare, outstanding additional content, Clint Eastwood: Icon is the definitive collection of film art and material representing Clint Eastwood’s legendary career as seen through the original iconic artwork.Clint Eastwood is a nameless vigilante, a vengeful detective, a bare-knuckle boxer, a Secret Service agent, and countless other definitive screen archetypes now embedded in our shared ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh

    Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape

    by Andrew deWaard, R. Colin Tait, Thomas Schatz ...
    Series series Directors' Cuts
    The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d'or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This volume ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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    The Genius of the System

    Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era

    by Thomas Schatz, Steven Bach ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 32 min

    At a time when the studio is making a stunning comeback, film historian Thomas Schatz provides an indispensable account of Hollywood's traditional blend of business and art. This book lays to rest the persistent myth that businesspeople and producers stifle artistic talent and reveals instead the genius of a system of collaboration and conflict. Working from industry documents, Schatz traces the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    20th Century-Fox

    Darryl F. Zanuck and the Creation of the Modern Film Studio

    by Scott Eyman ...
    Narrated by Suehyla El-Attar ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 57 min

    From New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman, this is the story one of the most influential studios in film history, from its glory days under the leadership of legendary movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck up to its 2019 buyout by Disney.March 20, 2019 marked the end of an era -- Disney took ownership of the movie empire that was Fox. For almost a century before that historic date, Twentieth ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Gunfighters

    How Texas Made the West Wild

    by Bryan Burrough ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 49 min

    **Named a Best Book of 2025 by Bloomberg“One hell of a good read.” —The New York Times“One of the most important books written on the American West in many years.” —True West MagazineFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Rich and Forget the Alamo comes an epic reconsideration of the time and place that spawned America’s most legendary gunfighters, from Jesse James and Billy the Kid ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Troublemaker

    The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford

    by Carla Kaplan ...
    Narrated by Christina Delaine ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 58 min

    Troublemaker tells the wild and unlikely story of Jessica Mitford, fifth of the six famous Mitford Girls, a British aristocrat-turned-American Communist, famous for exposés like The American Way of Death; this biography brings her astonishing self-transformation to life with a riveting, often hilarious account of trading wealth and status for a life of radical activism.Who could predict that a ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

    A Memoir

    by Sly Stone ...
    Narrated by Dion Graham ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 11 min

    **Winner of the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Achievement in Audiobook Production."Throughout, narrator Dion Graham sustains an authentic cool. His voice subtly slows down, pauses, and cracks as Stone expounds upon his older years. It’s a kind of music unto itself." —AudioFile**Combining three never-before-heard songs, jingles from when Sly was a DJ on KSOL, and a legendary story, Thank ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Dreams of El Dorado

    A History of the American West

    by H. W. Brands ...
    Narrated by Matt Kugler ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 11 min

    **From a New York Times bestselling author, a masterful history of the American West—from the California Gold Rush to the settling of Oklahoma and beyond."Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope, this is a bravura performance from one of our master historians." —Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Blood and Thunder**In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    Hitler’s Monsters

    A Supernatural History of the Third Reich

    by Eric Kurlander ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 19 min

    The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler’s personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

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    Also available as: eBook