AGEL, JEROME, ed. The Making of Kubrick’s 2001. New York: Signet/New American Library, 1970. An essential grabbag of articles, interviews, stills and reviews. Includes Arthur C. Clarke’s short story, "The Sentinel," that was the starting point for the development of the movie. Also reprints the important Playboy interview with SK from September 1968, and Jeremy Bernstein’s New Yorker profile from 1966. See also BIZONY, below.

APPEL, JR., ALFRED. Nabokov’s Dark Cinema. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Not much about SK but essential for Lolita completists. Appel ably demonstrates with wit Nabokov’s huge debt as a writer to the cinema. Much about the background of Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov’s original screenplay, subsequently adapted by SK and James Harris, was published as Lolita: A Screenplay (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973, 1983).

BIZONY, PIERS. 2001: Filming the Future. London: Aurum Press, 1994. A nuts-and-bolts behind-the-scenes account of the making of the film. Very well illustrated. To be read in conjunction with AGEL above. A new, expanded edition will appear shortly.

CIMENT, MICHEL. Kubrick. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1999. A new, updated edition of the volume first published in 1983. Ciment, a leading French critic, has written a detailed and perceptive account of the films. Very good choice of illustrations. Interviews with collaborators. A key work. An English translation of this new edition is forthcoming.

CLARKE, ARTHUR C. The Lost Worlds of 2001. New York: New American Library, 1972. Clarke’s own account of the writing of the film. Much of background interest.

CORLISS, RICHARD. Lolita. London: British Film Institute, 1994. A short monograph in the BFI "Film Classics" series.

COYLE, WALLACE. Stanley Kubrick: A Guide to References and Resources. Boston, Mass: G K Hall, 1980. Detailed and exhaustive up until the date of publication. Full credit and cast lists for the films and, amongst much else, an 80-page bibliography of articles, reviews, books, etc. For an updating of the bibliography see Gene Phillips’ article on SK in The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers (Detroit: St. James Press, 1999 [4th ed.]).

CRONE, RAINER & GRAF SCHAESBERG, PETRUS. Stanley Kubrick: Still Moving Pictures, Fotografien 1945-1950. Munchen: Edition Iccarus/Schnell+Steiner, 1999. Around 200 b&w photographs taken by SK when he was a staff photographer on Look magazine, together with supporting text. This may be usefully supplemented by Stanley Kubrick: Ladro di Sguardi 1945-1949 (Rome): Bompiani, 1994 which, though not reproducing the photos as well as the German volume, shows many whole pages from Look, thus giving the reader an opportunity to see the pictures in context.

FALSETTO, MARIO, ed. Perspectives on Stanley Kubrick. New York: G. K. Hall, 1996. A well-chosen collection of some 20 articles and essays on SK by various writers together with four reprinted interviews.

GEDULD, CAROLYN. Filmguide to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1973. Concise and useful.

HERR, MICHAEL. Stanley Kubrick. New York: Grove/Atlantic Press, 2000. An affectionate and personal memoir.

JENKINS, GREG. Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation: Three Novels, Three Films. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1997. The three films are Lolita, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket. Somewhat "lit-critish" but useful nonetheless on the art of adaptation.

KAGAN, NORMAN. The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick. Oxford: Roundhouse, 1997. New edition. A detailed critique of the films up to and including Full Metal Jacket. First published in 1972.

KUBRICK, STANLEY. Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. With HERR, MICHAEL & HASFORD, GUSTAV. Full Metal Jacket: The Screenplay. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. With RAPHAEL, FREDERIC. Eyes Wide Shut: A Screenplay. London: Penguin Books, 1999. Three screenplays, the first two profusely illustrated. The last has only a small selection of stills. The Penguin volume also contains a translation of Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle, the inspiration for Eyes Wide Shut, by J. M. Q. Davies.

LOBRUTTO, VINCENT. Stanley Kubrick: A Biography. New York: Donald I. Fine, 1997. An enthusiastic biography highly researched and highly detailed.

NELSON, THOMAS ALLEN. Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist’s Maze. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1982. Studies of the films up to The Shining. Particularly good on SK’s adaptive skills.

PHILLIPS, GENE D. Stanley Kubrick: A Film Odyssey. New York: Big Apple/Popular Library Film Series, 1977. Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Lehigh University Press, 1999 (rev. ed.). SK thought highly of Gene Phillips as a critic and gave him every assistance on these two books. Essential.

WALKER, ALEXANDER. Stanley Kubrick, Director. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1999. An updating of Walker’s earlier Stanley Kubrick Directs (1971). With "A Visual Analysis" by Sybil Taylor and Ulrich Ruchti. Well illustrated with frame reproductions.