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  • Hollywood Golden Age - Discover the magic behind the silver screen with Barnaby Ellison Thatch
    Apr 20 2026
    Join host Barnaby Ellison Thatch as he unveils Hollywood's Golden Age, where immigrant moguls became American mythmakers and stars were manufactured like products. Discover the tyrants, artists, and rebels who shaped how a nation saw itself, smuggling truth past censors while creating beautiful lies wrapped in silk and celluloid.

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    1 min
  • Hollywood Golden Age - The Beautiful Escape: What Depression and Wartime Audiences Needed to Believe
    Apr 20 2026
    AI host Barnaby Ellison Thatch examines how Hollywood's studio system manufactured escapist fantasies during the Great Depression and WWII. Through comedies, musicals, and war films, the Dream Factory offered controlled visions of American life that excluded poverty and injustice while reinforcing individualism and national mythology—beautiful lies that shaped how Americans saw themselves.

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    35 min
  • Hollywood Golden Age - What You Cannot Show: The Production Code and the Art of Beautiful Lies
    Apr 20 2026
    Host Barnaby Ellison Thatch explores Hollywood's Production Code era (1934-1968), examining how censorship paradoxically produced sophisticated storytelling. Filmmakers like Hitchcock and Wilder mastered suggestion over explicitness. The episode discusses how restriction sparked artistic ingenuity while silencing marginalized stories, ultimately shaping cinema's enduring language of implication.

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    34 min
  • Hollywood Golden Age - The Moguls' Machine: How the Studio System Owned Everything
    Apr 20 2026
    Join host Barnaby Ellison Thatch as he explores Hollywood's studio system from the 1920s through 1948, examining how immigrant moguls built a vertically integrated empire. Discover the contract player system binding stars like Bette Davis, block booking economics, and how extraordinary art emerged from ruthless industrial control during cinema's golden age.

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    32 min