Direction & Production
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After Disney: Toil, Trouble, and the Transformation of America’s Favorite Media Company
$19.99 Add to cartThe untold succession struggle at Walt Disney Productions following the death of its founder, and the generational transformation which led to the birth of the modern multibillion-dollar animation ind… [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888451380
- Language: English
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Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words
$50.00 Add to cartCelebrating women directors and their incredible contributions to filmmaking, this fascinating survey includes a brief history about groundbreaking trailblazers, in-depth interviews with singular fema… [more below]
- Author: Gates, Marya E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 084784661X
- Language: English
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Lessons with Kiarostami
$33.75 Add to cartOver the past two decades, Abbas Kiarostami – the Iranian film director of Where is the Friend’s House?, Life and Nothing More, Through the Olive Trees, Close Up, A Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carr
- Author: Kiarostami, Abbas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: May 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1942782470
- Language: English
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Running the Show: Television from the Inside
$37.43 Add to cartRunning the Show takes you inside building a show from the ground up and what a showrunner’s life looks like in Hollywood.
- Author: Melvoin, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493075292
- Language: English
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The Kid Stays in the Picture
$22.99 Add to cartRobert Evans’ The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documenta
- Author: Evans, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0062228323
- Language: English
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Killer Story: The Truth Behind True Crime Television
$28.95 Add to cartFor every true crime story that makes headlines, there’s a separate drama happening behind the scenes. Follow a journalist and TV producer from 48 Hours and 60 Minutes as she carves out a career in th… [more below]
- Author: St Amant, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1637746059
- Language: English
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The Museum of Wes Anderson: His Movies and the Works That Inspired Them
$35.00 Add to cartWelcome to the Wes Anderson museum–a place packed with illustrations, ephemera, trivia, and insightful commentary, and as whimsical and visually arresting as the cult director’s films themselves.
Thi- Author: Chiaramonte, Johan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 3791393413
- Language: English
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David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials
$50.00 Add to cartAn illustrated monograph on the work of legendary writer/director David Cronenberg, master of body horror and cinematic provocateur behind films such as The Fly, Scanners, Naked Lunch, Eastern Promise… [more below]
- Author: Lucca, Violet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1419771914
- Language: English
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Rise Up!: Broadway and American Society from ‘Angels in America’ to ‘Hamilton’
$32.95 Read morePenned by one of America’s best-known daily theatre critics and organized chronologically, this lively and readable book tells the story of Broadway’s renaissance from the darkest days of the AIDS cri
- Author: Jones, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1350071935
- Language: English
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Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama
$13.95 Add to cartHow dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it.
Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces?
- Series: Exploded Views
- Author: Tannahill, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1552453138
- Language: English
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The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen
$89.99 Add to cartThe ultimate guide to the productions of Irwin Allen, legendary creator of Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and The Time Tunnel.
Take a visual journey through the mi- Author: Bond, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 612
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1835411363
- Language: English
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Rome Open City
$15.95 Read moreThis study examines Rome Open City and its place in Roberto Rossellini’s career. The film is based on events that took place in Nazi occupied Italy 1944, one year before the film was made. The author … [more below]
- Series: BFI Film Classics #55
- Author: Forgacs, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 27 2000
- ISBN10: 0851708048
- Language: English
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But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct: Lessons from a Life Behind the Camera
$19.99 Read moreFor over three decades, director Ken Kwapis has charted a career full of exceptional movies and television, from seminal shows like The Office to beloved films like He’s Just Not That Into You.
He is- Author: Kwapis, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1250260124
- Language: English
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The World of It
$45.00 Read moreAn official behind-the-scenes companion to New Line Cinema’s IT and IT CHAPTER TWO, the globally popular blockbusters based on the bestseller by Stephen King.
Collecting the best artwork produced dur- Author: Wax, Alyse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1419740474
- Language: English
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How Broadway Works: Building and Running a Show, from the People Who Make It Happen
$34.43 Add to cartHow Broadway Works celebrates the unsung, out-of-sight people on Broadway who bring a production to the stage and shows young people interested in theater that there are a myriad of vocations other th
- Author: Powers, Sharon Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493059947
- Language: English
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The Wes Anderson Collection: Isle of Dogs
$40.00 Read moreThe Wes Anderson Collection: Isle of Dogs takes readers behind the scenes of the beloved auteur’s stop-motion animated film.
Foreword by movie/TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz
Introduction by Every Frame- Series: Wes Anderson Collection
- Author: Wilford, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1419730096
- Language: English
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Grammar of the Film Language
$29.95 Read moreVisual narrative formulas for anyone involved in the film and tape industry.
- Author: Arijon, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 01 1991
- ISBN10: 187950507X
- Language: English
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Transforming Space Over Time: Set Design and Visual Storytelling with Broadway’s Legendary Directors
$42.95 Read moreA combination of wisdom and tools derived from 450 productions’ worth of personal experience and a series of investigations into the minds and methods of the designer’s key collaborator: the director.
- Author: Boritt, Beowulf
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1493064843
- Language: English
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Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation
$57.99 Read moreFrancis Glebas, a top Disney storyboard artist, teaches artists a structural approach to clearly and dramatically presenting visual stories. They will learn classic visual storytelling techniques such… [more below]
- Author: Glebas, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0240810767
- Language: English
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Theater for Beginners
$14.95 Add to cart“One of the strongest directors out there–an artist committed to making us see the world for what it is.” — New Yorker
Maxwell “belong[s] to the top tier of avant-garde auteurs in New York.” — Jaso- Author: Maxwell, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1559364866
- Language: English
