Direction Production category: 829 books
Theatre
Its Art and Craft
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Successful theatre relies on a complex interaction of all theatrical elements: script, direction, acting, and design interact in shifting configurations to offer a new work of art at every performance. Examining these relationships often enriches the theatrical experience.
Theatre: Its Art...
Martin Scorsese
Interviews, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Martin Scorsese (b. 1942) has long been considered one of America’s greatest cinematic storytellers. Over the last fifty years he has created some of the most iconic moments in American film, never afraid to confront controversial issues with passion. While few of his films are directly autobiographical,...
Shoot Like Scorsese
The Visual Secrets of Shock, Elegance, and Extreme Character
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Martin Scorsese directs films that range from the subtlest studies of relationships to violent gangster movies, with characters who are driven to the extremes of their personality. This book looks at Scorsese’s key techniques, showing how he uses space, framing, and a strong sense of direction, to en-sure that your films are brimming with tension, shock, and emotion.
Fred Schepisi
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In the New Yorker, Stephen Schiff has described Fred Schepisi (b. 1939) as "probably the least-known great director working in the mainstream American cinema--a master storyteller with a serenely muscular style that can make more flamboyant moviemakers look coarse and overweening." Schepisi's...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Winner of first Prize in the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection competition, this volume examines how different generations of women work within the genericity of audio-visual storytelling not necessarily to ‘undo’ or ‘subvert’ popular formats, but also to draw on their generative force. Recent...
Sternberg and Dietrich
The Phenomenology of Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
James Phillips's Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle reappraises the cinematic collaboration between the Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) and the German-American actor Marlene Dietrich (1901-92). Considered by his contemporaries one of the most significant...
Aesthetic 3D Lighting
History, Theory, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Aesthetic 3D Lighting: History, Theory, and Application delves into the history, the theory, and the practical and aesthetic application of lighting in the fine arts and 3D animation.
In this book, animation industry veteran and lighting expert Lee Lanier examines the importance of lighting...
A Guide to Creating Your Own Internet Radio Station
You Can Do It for Free Also
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
So, you think you have what it takes to be a DJ and broadcaster? Awesome news for you! And guess what? This is very lucky news for you because in today's technology, it allows anyone who wants to do what was once a limited to a very small percentage of people. But, now you can become an online / internet...
by Elia Kazan, Martin Scorsese
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Elia Kazan was the twentieth century’s most celebrated director of both stage and screen, and this monumental, revelatory book shows us the master at work. Kazan’s list of Broadway and Hollywood successes—A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, On the Waterfront, to name a few—is a...
Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only
The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical investigation and vivid storytelling, one of our greatest film biographers takes on one of the most talented...
Drama High
The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The inspiration for the NBC TV series "Rise," starring Josh Radnor, Auli'i Cravalho, and Rosie Perez — the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town. By the author of The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino.
Why...
The Marvel Studios Phenomenon
Inside a Transmedia Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Marvel Studios has provided some of the biggest worldwide cinematic hits of the last eight years, from Iron Man (2008) to the record-breaking The Avengers (2012), and beyond. Having announced plans to extend its production of connected texts in cinema, network and online television until at least...
Cowboy Bebop
Deep Space Blues
Language: French
Release Date: August 10, 2018
A la découverte des coulisses de la création de la série culte Cowboy Bebop !
Difficile d’expliquer encore aujourd’hui, vingt ans après sa première diffusion, ce qui a fait de Cowboy Bebop un classique de l’animation japonaise. Car au-delà des superlatifs régulièrement attribués...
Zero Dark Thirty
The Shooting Script
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
The hunt for Osama bin Laden preoccupied the world and two American presidential administrations for more than a decade. But in the end, it took a small, dedicated team of CIA operatives to track him down. Every aspect of their mission was shrouded in secrecy. Though some of the details have since...