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Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film's release, this is the definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, including the inside account of how director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke created this cinematic masterpiece.

Victoria & Abdul (2017)

Directed by Stephen Frears
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Flesh Cinema: the corporeal turn in American avant-garde film

Explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann and Yoko Ono, this book demonstrates how experimental cinema not only transformed American visual culture, but also the lives of those who created it. By situating these films in relation to the civil rights and sexual liberation movements, Flesh Cinema investigates how social politics continue to inform their meaning.

Warner Bros: Hollywood's ultimate backlot

In this book, studio staff historian and Hollywood insider Steven Bingen throws open Hollywood's iron gates and takes you inside one of the greatest and yet most mysterious movie studio of them all: Warner Bros. Accompanied by stunning behind-the-scenes photos and maps.

Child's Play (1972)

Directed by Sidney Lumet
At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.