Film category: 7532 books
by Robert Edgar, John Marland, Steven Rawle
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
An effective filmmaker needs to have a good understanding of how film language works, and more importantly, how to actively influence an audience's thoughts and feelings and guide their gaze around the screen.
Packed with examples from classic and contemporary cinema, The Language of Film reveals...
by rodney cannon
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
After almost two decades the first guide dedicated solely to the making of a found-footage film has arrived.
In this book, you will be offered clear advice on how to write, direct and produce a quality found footage film. Advice coming from over half a dozen young filmmakers who are in post-production...
Filming Forster
The Challenges of Adapting E.M. Forster's Novels for the Screen
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Filming Forster focuses upon the challenges of producing film adaptations of five of E. M. Forster’s novels. Rather than follow the older comparative approach, which typically damned the film for not being “faithful” to the novel, this project explores the interactive relationship between film...
Movie Trivia
Test your film knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Think you know everything about movies and call yourself a movie buff? Maybe a friend, colleague or relative thinks they are?
This book is full of interesting movie trivia from early films up to today. It is full cover to cover with questions and answers, divided into separate quizzes,...
Guerrilla Film Scoring
Practical Advice from Hollywood Composers
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
As the movie and music industries have changed, film scoring has become an overwhelmingly independent process. Film composers have more responsibilities than ever before, and they must fulfill them with smaller budgets and shorter schedules. As a result, composers are increasingly becoming armies...
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 Stacey Parks
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Innovation in technology means that almost anyone can make an independent film these days. Although this may be good news for aspiring filmmakers, it also means that the oversupply of independent films on the market has caused acquisition prices to dramatically decrease. As a result, producers and...
Film School Confidential
The Insider's Guide To Film Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Now completely revised-all there is to know on getting into the right schools and making the experience count.
This completely revised edition of Film School Confidential continues to offer the inside scoop on every major film school program in the country. A must-have guide for students who...
Shaping the Future of African American Film
Color-Coded Economics and the Story Behind the Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
In Hollywood, we hear, it’s all about the money. It’s a ready explanation for why so few black films get made—no crossover appeal, no promise of a big payoff. But what if the money itself is color-coded? What if the economics that governs film production is so skewed that no film by, about,...
by Jamie Sexton
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A low-budget breakout film that wowed critics and audiences on its initial release, Stranger Than Paradise would prove to be a seminal film in the new American independent cinema movement and establish its director, Jim Jarmusch, as a hip, cult auteur. Taking inspiration from 1960s underground filmmaking,...
by Jonathan Burt
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
From Salvador Dalí to Walt Disney, animals have been a constant yet little-considered presence in film. Indeed, it may come as a surprise to learn that animals were a central inspiration to the development of moving pictures themselves.
In Animals in Film, Jonathan Burt points out that the...
The Epic in Film
From Myth to Blockbuster
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Constantine Santas encourages us to wonder why film critics have so routinely dismissed the epic film. In The Epic in Film, he argues that 'blockbuster' and 'artistic' are not mutually exclusive terms, and, perhaps more importantly, epic film is an inherently profound genre in its ability to tap into...
Film Noir
Hard-boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The term "film noir" still conjures images of a uniquely American malaise: hard-boiled detectives, fatal women, and the shadowy hells of urban life. But from its beginnings, film noir has been an international phenomenon, and its stylistic icons have migrated across the complex geo-political...
Comic Venus
Women and Comedy in American Silent Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
For many people the term “silent comedy” conjures up images of Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp, Buster Keaton’s Stoneface, or Harold Lloyd hanging precariously from the side of a skyscraper. Even people who have never seen a silent film can recognize these comedians at a glance. But what about...