Space odyssey : Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the making of a masterpiece / Michael Benson. by Benson, Michael

Easy riders, raging bulls : how the sex-drugs-and-rock-'n'-roll generation saved Hollywood / Peter Biskind. by Biskind, Peter

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Encyclopedia of new media : an essential reference to communication and technology / Steve Jones, editor.

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Capturing the culture : film, art, and politics / Richard Grenier ; introduction by Robert H. Bork. by Grenier, Richard, 1926-

Table of Contents: “…The True Child: George Lucas and the Star Wars Series -- The Uniforms that Guard: Kipling, Orwell, and Australia's Breaker Morant -- Bolshevism as the Politics of Intent: Warren Beatty's Reds -- Is It a Cuddly Universe? …”

Utopias : a brief history from ancient writings to virtual communities / Howard P. Segal. by Segal, Howard P.

Table of Contents: “…The major contemporary utopians and their basic beliefs ; Social media : utopia at one's fingertips ; Recent and contemporary utopian communities ; The Star Trek empire : science fiction becomes less escapist ; Edutopia : George Lucas and others ; The fate of books and newspapers : utopian and dystopian aspirations -- 8. …”

Reclaiming The Blade : Sword Martial Arts for Stage and Screen / TMW Media Group.

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Action and adventure cinema / edited by Yvonne Tasker.

Table of Contents: “…/ Christine Holmlund -- Greek war film as melodrama : women, female stars, and the nation as victim / Lydia Papadimitriou -- Spaghetti western, genre criticism and national cinema : re-defining the frame of reference / Dimitris Eleftheriotis -- Genre and violence in the work of Kurosawa and Peckinpah / Stephen Prince -- The dirty dozen : the contradictory nature of screen violence / Tony Williams -- 'It's aimed at kids -- the kid in everybody' : George Lucas, Star wars and children's entertainment / Peter Krämer -- Man's favourite sport? …”
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Hearts of darkness a filmmaker's apocalypse / a Showtime presentation ; written and directed by Fax Bahr with George Hickenlooper ; documentary footage directed by Eleanor Coppola ; produced by George Zaloom and Les Mayfield ; executive producers, Doug Claybourne and Fred Roos ; Zaloom-Mayfield Productions in association with Zoetrope Studios.

Cinemulacrum : a secret history of film/video, 1960-2010 / Aaron Sultanik. by Sultanik, Aaron, 1949-

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Chainsaws, slackers, and spy kids : thirty years of filmmaking in Austin, Texas / Alison Macor. by Macor, Alison, 1966-

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Disney's Star Wars : forces of production, promotion, and reception / William Proctor and Richard McCulloch, editors.

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Equinox / Jack H. Harris presents ; a Tonylyn production ; produced by Jack H. Harris ; written and directed by Jack Woods. Equinox: A journey into the supernatural / Berkshire Productions presents ; written and co-directed by Mark Thomas McGee ; produced and directed by Dennis Muren.

Library of African cinema. Ça twiste à poponguine / a project of California Newsreel ; une coproduction Cámeras continentales, France 2, RTS ; un film de Moussa Sene Absa ; auteur, Moussa Sene Absa ; adaptation et dialogues, Moussa Sene Absa, Claude Gutman, Jean-Michel Morel ; metteur en scène, Moussa Sene Absa.

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