Direction Production category: 829 books
George A. Romero
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
George A. Romero (b. 1940) has achieved a surprising longevity as director since his first film, Night of the Living Dead (1968). After recently relocating to Canada, he shows no signs of slowing up: his recent film, Survival of the Dead (2009), is discussed in a new interview conducted by Tony Williams...
Think Outside the Box Office
The Ultimate Guide to Film Distribution and Marketing for the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Think Outside the Box Office is a primer for filmmaking in the digital era covering distribution of all types of media content - feature films, shorts, webisodes, transmedia, vblogs, etc., and is the first to address the new distribution and marketing landscape facing filmmakers today. The book is...
What I Really Want to Do on Set in Hollywood
A Guide to Real Jobs in the Film Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Go Hollywood—with a complete, insightful look at the biggest jobs on the movie set. What I Really Want to Do on Set in Hollywood is one-stop shopping for anyone who wants to work in film. It's the only behind-the-scenes title that offers a detailed look at the industry explores more than 35 jobs from around the film industry. A must-have for anyone interested in Hollywood.
Short Films 101
How to Make a Short for Under $50K-and Launch Your Filmmaking Career
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
Where does a young filmmaker begin? With the right short-film concept and this book!
The right short can be a filmmaker's "business card" in Hollywood. Here's the authoritative handbook by one of Hollywood's most connected insiders that offers a step-by-step guide through the entire creative...
by Jeremy Juuso
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Filmmakers interested in financing their own films have to start with a business plan. Few know how to put one together. Getting the Money gives a relaxed, step-by-step approach on how to do so. Of particular use are the financial sections where, for the
Talk the Talk
A Dialogue Workshop for Scriptwriters
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Great dialogue attracts great actors. This books gives screenwriters and playwrights an easy to use training manual for improving dialogue writing skills
Allegories of Contamination
Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
The Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life) is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his cinematic works. In Allegories of Contamination Patrick Rumble provides an incisive critical and...
by Irene Becker
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
The Essential Guide To Film Making For Beginners
This book covers several topics including:
Chapter 1: Why Should I Go Into Film Making? Chapter 2: To Show Or Not To Show – Deciding If Your Feature Film Should Be Shared Chapter 3: The Joys Of Film School Chapter 4: Ultimate Ideas...
First Time Director
How to Make Your Breakthrough Movie
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
This book explains in precise, easy to understand language everything the novice director needs to know before taking on his or her first professional assignment.
The Body and the Screen
Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Women’s Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Winner of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Book Prize 2018
Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries; in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnès Varda in gaining...
Shoot Me
Independent Filmmaking from Creative Concept to Rousing Release
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
When the script says "shoot me" and Hollywood says no, your only alternative is to raise the money and do it yourself. Here's how screenwriters Roy Frumkes and Rocco Simonelli used digital video to do just that. Witty, original, and ruthlessly on the mark, this unvarnished look at independent film-making...
The Charley Chase Talkies
1929-1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Charley Chase began his film career in early 1913 working as a comedian, writer, and director at the Al Christie studios under his real name, Charles Parrott. Chase then joined Mack Sennett's Keystone studio in 1914, costarring in early films of Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, as...
Film Lighting
Talks with Hollywood's Cinematographers and Gaffer
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Newly revised and updated, Film Lighting is an indispensible sourcebook for the aspiring and practicing cinematographer, based on extensive interviews with leading cinematographers and gaffers in the film industry.
Film lighting is a living, dynamic art influenced by new technologies and the...
by Frank Gado
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1986
Acknowledged as one of the greatest filmmakers of this or any other time, Bergman has with few exceptions written his own screenplays—an uncommon practice in the film industry—and for this practice critics refer to him as a "literary" filmmaker: In this work, Gado examines virtually...