John Holmstrom, the literary editor of the Royal Shakespeare Company and a governor of the British Film Institute, spent decades travelling the world to research and write the universally acclaimed book The Moving Picture Boy Encyclopaedia. In doing so he assembled a photographic archive that is, of its kind, without equal in Great Britain. Film historian Paul Sutton showcases hundreds of photographs and posters from the collection, around which he writes a history of this rare part of cinema. Many of the photographs have never before been published. In addition to the stills and posters, the book includes a delightful 67-page scrapbook of Holmstrom's newspaper and magazine cuttings from around the world; and a selection of letters to Holmstrom from former boy actors in Britain, Italy, France, Germany, America, India and Hungary.

The Moving Picture Boy Gallery: From the John Holmstrom Collection

Humor & Entertainment

Paul Sutton

Movies

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Book by Carmack, Melanie Zabriskie

P is for pioneers: An alphabet book for LDS children

Carmack, Melanie Zabriskie

The Druk White Lotus School was designed by a team of teachers, architects, planners and engineers to provide a new educational community for children in Ladakh. It is planned around a curriculum that has been specially developed to respect traditional Buddhist culture while seeking to advance modern scientific knowledge.

Building Culture: Druk White Lotus School: a sustainable model for education + design

CARTER, Brian

A celebration of the work of Ken Russell. A portrait of the man and his art from the 1950s to the great films of the 1960s and 1970s, the cult films of the 1980s, through to the digital short films with which he ended his career. Talking About Ken Russell includes hundreds of exclusive interviews with Russell and the people who worked with him, and includes, for example, the first-hand testimonies of more than a dozen people who worked on Women in Love, and twenty-three members of the cast and crew of The Devils. Actors, editors, designers, continuity women, producers, assistants, special effects artists, composers, sound recordists, and the camera crews, all recall their working days with Ken Russell. In addition to these interviews, Paul Sutton adds choice finds from his ten-year research into Russell’s careers in photography, film and opera, and uncovers a treasure trove of previously unknown material. This book aims to shine new light on the popular masterpieces and bring to the fore lesser-known works that should be better-known. Lavishly illustrated.

Talking About Ken Russell (Deluxe Edition)

Arts & Photography

Sutton, Dr Paul

Photography & Video

Talking about Ken Russell (Expanded Edition) (Standard Edition)

With it’s glorious backdrop of fifties rock and roll, Lemon Popsicle told of the sexual misadventures of three boys in Tel Aviv. The film broke box-office records around the world and helped to establish the producers, Golan and Globus, as a force in Hollywood. Britain’s Popsicle expert, Roy Mitchell, pools his resources with the historian, Paul Sutton, to produce a pictorial celebration of all the Popsicle films and spin-offs, from Eskimo Limon in Israel, and the Eis Am Stiel films co-produced in Germany, to the popular U.S. remake, The Last American Virgin.

The Lemon Popsicle Book

Mitchell, Roy

Sutton, Paul

Gary Numan was one of the first pop artists to place equal emphasis on image and sound, a true Warholian artist who advanced on Andy’s light and sound experiments with The Velvet Underground, by bringing a real grandeur to live performances, and by changing the music of the world with a single finger. This book collects together articles from England, America, Japan, Spain, Italy and Germany, to give a clear picture of the first years of fame of the modest young Englishman, and which show, for example, that Numan's 1979 album Replicas is the missing link between the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the film Blade Runner.

Gary Numan, An Annotated Scrapbook: 1977-1981

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

The first analytical study of the pioneering English musician. The historian, Paul Sutton begins by taking the reader through a vastly entertaining potted history of rock music pioneers, tracing them all back to “a delta of Mississippi mud from where howled the first harmonica, and from where was heard the first blue plucking finger on string”, to show that popular music was strictly The Imitation Game until Gary Numan came along with his Machine Quartet, four albums that completely re-invigorated rock and roll. “Numan’s music added so many new strands of DNA to the gene pool of what hitherto had been dead Mississippi mud that the transformative effect was immediate and everlasting.” Artists major, from Frank Zappa, Neil Young and Alice Cooper, and bands then minor, including Tears for Fears and Depeche Mode, all stopped what they were doing and added lessons learned from Numan to their art. Sutton looks at the influence on Numan of David Bowie, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk and John Foxx, and deconstructs Numan’s cryptic lyrics from the first single to the fourth album in order to unlock the art and mind of the world’s first Asperger’s pop star.

Understanding Gary Numan: The Machine Quartet (1978-1981)

The first analytical study of the pioneering English musician. The historian, Paul Sutton begins by taking the reader through an entertaining potted history of rock music pioneers, tracing them all back to “a delta of Mississippi mud from where howled the first harmonica, and from where was heard the first blue plucking finger on string”, to show that popular music was strictly The Imitation Game until Gary Numan came along with his Machine Quartet, four albums that completely re-invigorated rock and roll.“Numan’s music added so many new strands of DNA to the gene pool of what hitherto had been dead Mississippi mud that the transformative effect was immediate and everlasting.”Artists major, from Frank Zappa, Neil Young and Alice Cooper, and bands then minor, including Tears for Fears and Depeche Mode, all stopped what they were doing and added lessons learned from Numan to their art.Sutton looks at the influence on Numan of David Bowie, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk and John Foxx, and deconstructs Numan’s cryptic lyrics from the first single to the fourth album in order to unlock the art and mind of the world’s first Asperger’s pop star.

A new edition of the first analytical study of the pioneering composer. The historian, Paul Sutton, starts by taking the reader through a vastly entertaining potted history of rock music pioneers, tracing them all back to "a delta of Mississippi mud from where howled the first harmonica, and from where was heard the first blue plucking finger on string," to show that popular music was strictly The Imitation Game until Gary Numan came along with his Machine Quartet, four albums that completely re-invigorated rock and roll. "Numan's music added so many new strands of DNA to the gene pool of what hitherto had been dead Mississippi mud that the transformative effect was immediate and everlasting." Artists major, from Frank Zappa, Neil Young and Robert Palmer, and bands then minor, including Tears for Fears and Depeche Mode, all stopped what they were doing and added lessons learned from Numan to their art. This edition adds a new introduction and expands on the analysis of The Pleasure Principle and Telekon. Sutton also breaks down imagery and lyrics from Numan's Replicas album to show that it was a clear and true influence on the film of Blade Runner.

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The Moving Picture Boy Gallery: From the John Holmstrom Collection

P is for pioneers: An alphabet book for LDS children

Building Culture: Druk White Lotus School: a sustainable model for education + design

Talking About Ken Russell (Deluxe Edition)

Talking about Ken Russell (Expanded Edition) (Standard Edition)

The Lemon Popsicle Book

Gary Numan, An Annotated Scrapbook: 1977-1981

Understanding Gary Numan: The Machine Quartet (1978-1981)

Understanding Gary Numan: The Machine Quartet (1978-1981)

Understanding Gary Numan: The Machine Quartet (1978-1981)