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A History of Danish Cinema

By C. Claire Thomson, Isak Thorsen, Pei-Sze Chow

The Illusion of Life

By Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas

You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation

By Susannah Gora

Improve Your I. Q.

By Glenn F. Wilson

Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche

By John Higgs

Complicit: The compulsive, timely thriller you won't be able to stop thinking about

By Winnie M Li

The Geography of Cinema: A Cinematic World

By Chris Lukinbeal, Stefan Zimmermann

Audrey Hepburn, an Elegant Spirit: Audrey Hepburn, an Elegant Spirit

By Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Merchant of Dreams

By Charles Higham, Louis B Mayer

Alex Cox's Introduction to Film: A Director's Perspective

By Alex Cox

Hollywood Hex: An Illustrated History of Cursed Movies

By Mikita Brottman

The Spectator: Talk About Movies and Plays With Those Who Made Them

By Studs Terkel

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

By Lindsay Hallam

Antonin Artaud: Man of Vision

By Bettina L. Knapp

How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise

By Chris Taylor

Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu

By Simon Callow

The Films of Peter Greenaway

By Amy Lawrence (Dartmouth College, Vermont)

Hardboiled Hollywood: The Origins of the Great Crime Films

By Max Decharne

Gilliam on Gilliam

By Terry Gilliam, Ian Christie

The Movie Doctors

By Simon Mayo, Mark Kermode

Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics

By Mark Kermode

Jump Cut: Hollywood, Politics and Counter Cinema

By Peter Steven

Questions of Third Cinema

By Jim Pines, Paul Willemen

The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window

By Rob Young

Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos

By Michael Imperioli, Steve Schirripa

It's All in the Playing

By Shirley MacLaine

Engaging Film: Geographies of Mobility and Identity

By Tim Cresswell, Deborah Dixon, Paul Beard, Ann Brigham, David B. Clarke

Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence

By S. Simkin

Televising Queer Women: A Reader

By R. Beirne

Film, Form and Phantasy: Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics

By M. O'Pray