Production category: 2784 books
Fixing Toyota
Quality Is Hard--Lean Is Much Harder
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
A closer look at Toyota’s quality and lean manufacturing problems–and the powerful lessons and warnings they represent. In the general and business press, Toyota’s quality issues are just that: quality issues. The industrial community wonders if there might be more to it: whether Toyota’s...
Computers in Broadcast and Cable Newsrooms
Using Technology in Television News Production
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Computers in Broadcast and Cable Newsrooms: Using Technology in Television News Production takes readers through the use of computers and software in the broadcast/cable newsroom environment. Author Phillip O. Keirstead began writing about television news technology decades ago in an effort to help...
Stage Money
The Business of the Professional Theater
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Stage Money is a groundbreaking guide to understanding professional theater finances today through the use of the tools and metaphors of the business world at large. This approach results in a comprehensive picture of the economic realities of theater production that is radically different from the...
The Comic Book Film Adaptation
Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
"There is no better, smarter examination of the relationship between comics and film."
--Mark Waid, Eisner Award-winning writer of Kingdom Come and Daredevil
In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production...
by Chris Astoyan
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
In this educational book, I’m going to talk about what you should do and what you should avoid, when you consider making a movie on a very low budget. I will thoroughly explain to you how I made my feature film with just a few hundred dollars, and how I avoided the huge headache of production costs....
by Peter Lee-Wright
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
'The Documentary Handbook is mandatory reading for those who want a critical understanding of the place of factual formats in today’s exploding television and media industry, as well as expert guidance in complex craft skills in order to fully participate. The practical advice and wisdom here is...
British Film Design
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
British Film Design' is about the things that you see when you close your eyes and think of British cinema. It is about Dr No's hideaway, the ballet of The Red Shoes, the buffet of Brief Encounter, Vera Drake's parlour, Hogwarts School … and a thousand other visions of British films. Moreover, 'British...
VIE Festival 14 - 22 october 2017
Modena Bologna Carpi Vignola
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
VIE Festival inaugurated in 2005 as an attempt to experience contemporary times, discover new identities and individuals in the world of live performance. It is an annual event held in the month of October in some cities of Emilia Romagna Region. Organizer and founder is ERT Fondazione Teatro Nazionale...
by Arthur Laurents
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
From Arthur Laurents, playwright, screenwriter, director—a mesmerizing book about theater, the art, the artist, the insider, the outsider—and the making of two of the greatest musicals of the American stage, West Side Story and Gypsy. It is a book profoundly enriched by the author’s two loves,...
Marco Bellocchio
The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores the boundaries between the public and the private, the political and the personal, and the collective and the individual as they appear in Bellocchio's...
Peter Brook
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Peter Brook is one of the world's legendary theater directors. His productions are a byword for imagination, energy, and innovation. From his ground-breaking production of Marat/Sade, to his "white box" A Midsummer Night's Dream, to his monumental staging of The Mahabharata and beyond, Brook...
by rodney cannon
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
On Low Budget Film Making is a book that contains interviews with many young and upcoming digital film makers. Most of these interviews were conducted while they were in the middle of production. This book was written to aid those who wish to become film makers by someone who believed that the best...
The 'Doctor Who' Handbook Vol 2
The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Production of 'Doctor Who'
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Everything you ever wanted to know about the cult BBC Television series Doctor Who (1963-1996).
On their first publication, the Doctor Who Handbooks were hailed as the best look behind the scenes of the BBC’s cult science fiction show Doctor Who. Now collected in two revised and updated...
Interstellar
Beyond Time and Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
In his sci-fi epic Interstellar, Christopher Nolan takes on the infinite canvas of space to deliver a cutting-edge, emotionally charged adventure that will amaze audiences of all ages. Interstellar: Beyond Time and Space documents the making of Nolan's latest masterpiece in fascinating detail and...