Direction category: 829 books
Studios Before the System
Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and industrial mission in mind, which in turn influenced the form, content, and business of the...
by Michel Chion
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in Audio-Vision and Film, a Sound Art, Words on Screen is Chion's survey of everything the seventh art gives...
by George Stevens, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
The first book to bring together these interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute’s renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers offers an unmatched history of American cinema in the words of its greatest practitioners.
Here are the incomparable directors...
by Nadine Holdsworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
This book uses original archival material to consider the theatrical and cultural innovations of Joan Littlewood and her company, 'Theatre Workshop'. Littlewood had a huge impact on the way theatre was generated, rehearsed and presented during the twentieth century.
Now reissued, Joan Littlewood...
The Man Who Knew Hitchcock
A Hollywood Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
As a script supervisor, second unit director, producer, and director, Herbert Coleman's film career spanned seven decades. Active in Hollywood from 1926 through 1988, he enjoyed a lengthy and illustrious career, highlighted by an impressive string of commercial and critical successes with one of the...
by Andrew J. Rausch
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
In 1973, early in their careers, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro collaborated for the first time. Over the next few decades, they worked together on seven more movies, many of which brought them both acclaim and awards. And while successful director and actor pairings have occurred throughout the...
by Alan Bell
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Roy Clarke’s Last of the Summer Wine was the longest running TV comedy series in the world, largely due to the passion, dedication and creativity of its producer/director – ALAN J W BELL. It has been broadcast in the United States on PBS for years and has become one of PBS' most successful British...
The Film Director Prepares
A Complete Guide to Directing for Film and Tv
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
• Insider author gives no-nonsense advice
• Required reading for film students, educators, anyone interested in film
From script analysis to post production, here is the all-inclusive guide to directing for film and television. Written by noted director-producer Myrl Schreibman,...
MasterShots Vol 1: 100 Advanced Camera Techniques to Get an Expensive Look on Your LowBudget Movie
100 Advanced Camera Techniques to Get an Expensive Look on Your Low-Budget Movie
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Master Shots gives filmmakers the techniques they need to execute complex, original shots on any budget. By using powerful master shots and well-executed moves, directors can develop a strong style and stand out from the crowd. Most low-budget movies look low-budget because the director is forced to...
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,...