Direction Production category: 829 books
Cinematography for Directors: A Guide for Creative Collaboration
A Guide for Creative Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Frost presents the essential handbook for directors and aspiring filmmakers who want to get the best visuals for their films while establishing a collaborative relationship with their cinematographer
Moviemakers' Master Class
Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2002
From 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 each of them is different. In Moviemaker Master Class, Laurent Tirard talks to twenty of today's...
by Jacqueline Frost
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Frost presents the essential handbook for directors and aspiring filmmakers who want to get the best visuals for their films while establishing a collaborative relationship with their cinematographer
You're Lucky You're Funny
How Life Becomes a Sitcom
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
The creator and executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond, on how to make a sitcom classic and keep laughing
This laugh-out-loud memoir takes readers backstage and inside the writers’ room of one of America’s best-loved shows. With more than 17 million viewers and more than seventy...
Daring to Play
A Brecht Companion
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Translated into English for the first time, Daring To Play: A Brecht Companion is the study of Bertolt Brecht’s theatre by Manfred Wekwerth, Brecht’s co-director and former director of the Berliner Ensemble.
Wekwerth aims to challenge prevailing myths and misconceptions of Brecht’s theatre,...
Sailor Moon Reflections
The inside story of the original recordings of the English version of Sailor Moon
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
The work of a voice artist isn't necessarily what it may seem to the viewer or listener. It is a craft that is learned through intense study and practice. The cast of Sailor Moon were paragons of this art form and reveal their techniques in accomplishing their roles in this book. This is the inside story...
Shoot Like Tarantino
The Visual Secrets of Dangerous Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Want your film to sizzle with danger? Then learn from the master of tension and action. Using Tar-antino’s secret tricks for creating conflict, keeping dialogue taut, and letting all hell break loose, you will enhance your own shooting style. Whatever your budget, get the action pumping with the...
MAP
The Hollywood/L.A. Career Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The guiding light of books. Fun reading A since of clarity for a newcomer to Los Angeles and the Entertainment Industry of Hollywood. Key points of the steps you want to take, Night Life hot spots, and raising funds for your projects makes "MAP" The Hollywood/L.A. Career Guide a must have book.
by Ben McCann
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2017
This book is the first ever English-language study of Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), once considered one of the world's great filmmakers. It provides new contextual and analytical readings of his films that identify his key themes and techniques, trace patterns of continuity and change, and explore...
Todd Haynes
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
A pioneer of the New Queer Cinema, Todd Haynes (b. 1961) is a leading American independent filmmaker. Whether working with talking dolls in a homemade short (Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story) or with Oscar-winning performers in an HBO miniseries (Mildred Pierce), Haynes has garnered numerous awards...
Film Directing Fundamentals
See Your Film Before Shooting
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Film Directing Fundamentals gives the novice director an organic methodology for realizing on-screen the full dramatic possibility of a screenplay. Unique among directing books, Nicholas Proferes provides clear-cut ways to translate a script to the screen. Using the script as a blueprint, the reader...
Master Shots Vol 2
Shooting Great Dialogue Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This is the ChineseSimplified version. Dialogue scenes are the most important moments in your film, but most directors get them wrong. If you block your scenes well, you do more than capture the basic scene; you echo the meaning, emotion, and drama of every moment. That is never more important than...
Directing for Film and Television
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2005
Legendary stories portray directors as eccentric, moody savants who possess a genius for the film medium that mere mortals could never grasp. Throughout cinematic history, gushing accounts have cast the likes of DeMille, Hitchcock, Fellini, and Spielberg as sorcerers, rather than tradesmen. Now confounding...
by White Christine A
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Directors & Designers offers the reader insights into the working relationships of people in these significant and creative roles. It charts an understanding of the way in which these roles have developed over the last century with specific chapters on both the personalities and on the works created...