Film - Direction & Production
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The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger
$48.00 Read moreMichael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were true visionaries of British cinema, creating glorious Technicolor masterpieces including A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Re
- Author: Morris, Nathalie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1838719172
- Language: English
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Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa
$24.95 Read moreThe first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classics
Ishiro Honda was arguably the most internationally successful Japanese director of his generation, w
- Author: Ryfle, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500410
- Language: English
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The Making of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
$85.00 Read moreJust as Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi completed the most successful cinematic trilogy of its generation, perhaps of all time, this splendid thirtieth-anniversary tribute completes New York … [more below]
- Series: Star Wars
- Author: Rinzler, J. W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0345511468
- Language: English
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Back from the Future: A Celebration of the Greatest Time Travel Story Ever Told
$19.95 Add to cartA Fan’s Look at the Back to the Future Franchise
“Brad Gilmore’s book not only offers new perspectives and a deeper understanding of Back to the Future, it reminds us why we fell in love with it in the
- Author: Gilmore, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1642502057
- Language: English
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Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema
$26.95 Add to cartOffers user-friendly knowledge and stimulating exercises to help compose story, develop characters and create emotion through skillful creation of the sound track.
- Author: Sonnenschein, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0941188264
- Language: English
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Making Documentary Films and Videos: A Practical Guide to Planning, Filming, and Editing Documentaries
$25.99 Add to cartThe classic guide to making documentaries, now revised and expanded for today’s filmmaker
The second edition of Making Documentary Films and Videos fully updates the popular guidebook that has given r- Author: Hampe, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 10 2007
- ISBN10: 080508181X
- Language: English
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How to Become a Porn Director: Making Amateur Adult Films
$9.95 Add to cartFinally a simple how-to-guide on filming your own porn video. This easy, step-by-step guide, walks you through the basics of making and directing an amateur porn video without having a Hollywood budge… [more below]
- Author: Ryder, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: December 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0976386232
- Language: English
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Cinematography
$27.00 Add to cartThe Essential Guide to the Cameraman’s Craft
Since its initial publication in 1973, Cinematography has become the guidebook for filmmakers. Based on their combined fifty years in the film and televis… [more below]- Author: Malkiewicz, Kris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: July 05 2005
- ISBN10: 074326438X
- Language: English
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How to Pull a Movie Out of Your Ass
$19.95 Add to cartGeneral information and realistic expectations for the the first time filmmaker with no budget to speak of. First-hand experience from the author who made his first feature film at 50, after having ha
- Author: Dorchak, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: August 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1088273238
- Language: English
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Steven Spielberg: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work
$36.00 Add to cartThis comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of the most famous director who has ever lived, Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg is the medium’s defining artist–the embodiment of the- Series: Iconic Filmmakers
- Author: Nathan, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0711295239
- Language: English
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Stanley Kubrick: Interviews
$50.00 Add to cart“I might try to make something of an imperfect story with my efforts as a writer, but I would never attempt to film a story that I was not finally in love with.” From his first feature film, Fear and … [more below]
- Series: Conversations with Filmmakers (Hardcover)
- Author: Phillips, Gene D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: January 22 2010
- ISBN10: 1578062977
- Language: English
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Make Your Own Damn Movie!: Secrets of a Renegade Director
$25.00 Add to cartLloyd Kaufman, the writer/producer/director of such cult-classic films as The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke ‘Em High, and Tromeo and Juliet, offers a guide to movie-making unlike any other available an
- Author: Kaufman, Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0312288646
- Language: English
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John Badham on Directing – 2nd Edition: Notes from the Set of Saturday Night Fever, War Games, and More
$28.95 Add to cartAction and suspense films have almost always been made by ‘seat of the pants’ filmmakers. Crafting their films on gut instinct and intuition their innate talent often leads them to exciting results. B… [more below]
- Author: Badham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1615933166
- Language: English
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The Film Director’s Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques
$29.95 Add to cartAcclaimed director Judith Weston offers a deeply creative exploration on how to access and stimulate the filmmaker’s most precious assets: instincts, imagination, and intuition.
- Author: Weston, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: September 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0941188787
- Language: English
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Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film
$22.00 Add to cartIn this “dishy…superbly reported” (Entertainment Weekly) New York Times bestseller, Peter Biskind chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers who reinvented Hollywood–most notably Sundance founde… [more below]
- Author: Biskind, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 03 2005
- ISBN10: 0684862581
- Language: English
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Notes from the Road: A Filmmaker’s Journey through American Music
$32.00 Add to cartNamed to Kirkus Review’s List of “Best Indie Books of 2023”
“A documentarian revisits the funkiest musical byways in this scintillating memoir…A vibrant, entertaining panorama of music-making and the
- Author: Mugge, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: February 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1958861103
- Language: English
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Cut to the Chase: Forty-Five Years of Editing America’s Favorite Movies
$24.95 Add to cartThis groundbreaking book takes the reader behind the closed doors of the editing room where Sam O’Steen along with some of the world’s top directors controlled the fate of many legendary films. Editor… [more below]
- Author: O’Steen, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 25 2002
- ISBN10: 094118837X
- Language: English
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Moviemakers’ Master Class
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Scorsese and Lynch to Wenders and Godard, interviews with twenty of the world’s greatest directors on how they make films–and why
Each great filmmaker has a secret method to his moviemaking–but- Author: Tirard, Laurent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 10 2002
- ISBN10: 057121102X
- Language: English
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The Art of Lean Filmmaking: An unconventional guide to creating independent feature films
$19.99 Add to cartLean Filmmaking is an explosion of creativity, turning conventional wisdom upside down to vigorously shake out obsolete ideas revered by the traditional film industry.
Writing a script. Pitching to inv
- Author: Eddy, Kylie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0645200700
- Language: English
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Filmmaking for Dummies
$24.99 Add to cartEverything you ever wanted to know about making a movie but were afraid to ask…
Lights, camera, action We all have at least one movie in us, and the amazing and affordable advances in digital tech
- Author: Stoller, Bryan Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1119617855
- Language: English
