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The Seagull
An Insiders’ Account of the Groundbreaking Moscow Production
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This book is an insiders’ account of the groundbreaking Moscow production of Chekhov's The Seagull directed by Anatoly Efros in 1966, which heralded a paradigm shift in the interpretation and staging of Chekhov’s plays. It is a unique glimpse behind the curtain of the laboratory of new Russian...
Directing Tennessee Williams
Joe Hill-Gibbins on The Glass Menagerie
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Follow acclaimed theatre director Joe Hill-Gibbins throughout preparation and rehearsals for his production of The Glass Menagerie at the Young Vic, London, described by the Telegraph as ‘a deeply felt, beautifully judged production of a masterpiece’. First published as part of Getting Directions:...
Directing Shakespeare in America
Current Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
In this first substantive study of directing Shakespeare in the USA, Charles Ney compares and contrasts directors working at major companies across the country. Because of the complexities of directing Shakespeare for audiences today, a director's methods, values and biases are more readily perceptible...
by Richard Harrington
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Master the graphic design and production skills required of today's video editors and motion graphic professionals with this comprehensive guide to the video tools in Adobe Photoshop CS3. Every page is filled with techniques to help the video professional make graphics for use in television, video,...
Telling the Truth
How to Make Verbatim Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
A practical guide to creating and producing verbatim theatre, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner.
Verbatim theatre is fashioned from words actually spoken by real people in real situations, and reproduced by actors in performance. An increasingly influential form of theatre, it...
by Mark de Valk, Sarah Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The Film Handbook examines the current state of filmmaking and how film language, technique and aesthetics are being utilised for today’s ‘digital film’ productions. It reflects on how critical analysis’ of film underpins practice and story, and how developing an autonomous ‘vision’ will...
Film England
Culturally English Filmmaking Since the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
In a film business increasingly transnational in its production arrangements and global in its scope, what space is there for culturally English filmmaking? In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Higson demonstrates how a variety of Englishnesses have appeared on screen since 1990, and surveys the genres...
Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon
Art, History, and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Considered by critics to be Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Barry Lyndon has suffered from scholarly and popular neglect. Maria Pramaggiore argues that one key reason that this film remains unappreciated, even by Kubrick aficionados, is that its transnational and intermedial contexts have not been...
Final Cut Pro Workflows
The Independent Studio Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Today's digital production tools empower the small team to produce multimedia projects that formerly required large teams. Orchestrating a production requires more than proficiency with the postproduction tools. Final Cut Pro Workflows: The Independent Studio Handbook offers a cookbook of postproduction...
by James J. McCluskey Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
The TV news business is all about authority, credibility, and professionalism: you must deliver the news with authority, strive to make it credible, and do everything in a professional manner. Everyone should always look and act in a professional manner, both on and off the camera, because you never...
Producing 24p Video
Covers the Canon XL2 and the Panasonic DVX-100a DV Expert Series
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Producing 24pP Video demystifies the emerging standards of film and video production and discusses the 24p video film format to help novice and experienced filmmakers alike learn how to better use the newly available DV cameras. Since the 24p frame rate closely approximates the look and feel of film,...
The International Film Business
A Market Guide Beyond Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
The International Film Business examines the independent film sector as a business, and addresses the specific skills and knowledge it demands. It describes both the present state of the industry, the significant digital and social media developments that are continuing to take place, and what changes...
Another Steven Soderbergh Experience
Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
How do we determine authorship in film, and what happens when we look in-depth at the creative activity of living filmmakers rather than approach their work through the abstract prism of auteur theory? Mark Gallagher uses Steven Soderbergh’s career as a lens through which to re-view screen authorship...
The Wedding Video Handbook
How to Succeed in the Wedding Video Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
For readers who want to become part of the thriving wedding video industry, Wedding Video Handbook explains everything a wedding videographer needs to know. Each chapter explores a different part of either the business or the production ends, and covers topics including secrets for getting clients,...