Direction Production category: 829 books
by Robert Knopf
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The Director as Collaborator teaches essential directing skills while emphasizing how directors and theater productions benefit from collaboration. Good collaboration occurs when the director shares responsibility for the artistic creation with the entire production team, including actors, designers,...
by Gary A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
READ THE BOOK! SEE THE MOVIE!
During the Golden Age of Hollywood, 20th Century-Fox was the studio where screenwriters were most often given the opportunity to excel. Fox studio mogul Darryl F. Zanuck had been a writer himself so he knew the importance of a good script. When the talented writers...
Creativity, Inc.
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
**From a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios—the Academy Award–winning studio behind *Coco, Inside Out, *and Toy Story—comes an incisive book about creativity in business and leadership for readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED...
The Mailroom
Hollywood History from the Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It’s like a plot from a Hollywood potboiler: start out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. But for many, it happens to be true. Some of the biggest names in entertainment—including David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Michael Ovitz— started their dazzling careers in the lowly mailroom. Based on more...
The Ride of a Lifetime
Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2019
A grand vision defined: The CEO of Disney, one of Time’s most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life.
Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company...
Der Sonnensucher. Konrad Wolf
Biographie
Language: German
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Ein großer Regisseur zwischen Subversion und Anpassung. Konrad Wolf, der Sohn des Schriftstellers und Arztes Friedrich Wolf, wurde mit Filmen wie „Der geteilte Himmel“ (1964), „Ich war neunzehn“ (1968) und „Solo Sunny“ (1980) international bekannt. Seine ungewöhnliche Biographie, die...
When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead
Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. No matter where nature has placed him--the club rooms of Brooklyn, the Mafia dives of New York's Lower East Side, the wilds of...
The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman
My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman, and Other Movie Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
"No CGI can match what Vic can accomplish" - **Steven Spielberg **
"Vic is The Man" - Pierce Brosnan
"Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend" - Martin Scorsese
"This is the best and most original behind-the-scenes book I have read in years,...
by Richard Schickel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Now with a new afterword: the history and process of moviemaking in general, and of Martin Scorsese's brilliant and varied films in particular, through the words and wit of the master director.
With Richard Schickel as the canny and intelligent guide, these conversations take us deep into Scorsese's...
Jack Be Nimble
The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
A warm, witty tell-all and history of American regional theater, from one of our best-loved directors
For Jack O'Brien, there's nothing like a first encounter with a great performer, nothing like the sound of an audience bursting into applause. In short, there's nothing like the theater.
Following...
Frank Capra
The Catastrophe of Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Moviegoers often assume Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films (such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life). A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the right thing, triumphs! But as Joseph McBride reveals in this meticulously researched, definitive biography,...
Steven Spielberg
A Biography, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Until the first edition of Steven Spielberg: A Biography was published in 1997, much about Spielberg's personality and the forces that shaped it had remained enigmatic, in large part because of his tendency to obscure and mythologize his own past. But in this first full-scale, in-depth biography of...
Joss Whedon
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
From the cult favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which netted four million viewers per episode, to the summer blockbuster The Avengers, which amassed a box office of $1.5 billion, Joss Whedon has made a name for himself in Hollywood for his penchant for telling meaningful, personal tales about love,...
Luck and Circumstance
A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
From acclaimed director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (The Normal Heart, The Beatles’ Let It Be, Brideshead Revisited, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, etc.), son of glamorous Warner’s movie star Geraldine Fitzgerald: a magical dreamscape memoir of his boyhood, coming-of-age, and making his way...