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Author: Martha Mollison

Producing Videos has been called the 'bible' of video making. It offers a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to all aspects of video production - from using a camera to the chapter on distribution. All the elements of ...

Author: Mark Brindle

Whether you are already a seasoned director or simply a film fan, this comprehensive guide features everything you need to know to make a digital film: from the basics of capturing footage and planning a shoot, to the mo ...

Author: Damian Sutton

Author: Josh T Clark

The Bare Bones Book of Screenwriting is one of the most authoritative, popular and useful books on screenwriting, written by a USC Cinema-Television alumni with several sold, optioned, produced and award winning screenpl ...

Author: Mark W. Travis

The film director is the guide, the inspiration, the focus that can shepherd hundreds of artists into the creation of a single work of art. The challenge is to collaborate effectively to realize a single vision. Learn ho ...

Author: Daniel Falconer

Under the supervision of multi Academy Award winner Richard Taylor Weta Workshop was responsible for the design of the creatures and technology for director Neill Blomkamp's 2009 feature film District 9. Weta Workshop' ...

Author: Juan del Cerro

these are short film scripts, some dramatic stories, other funny situations, written for the new owner of a camera, the amateur film director, those who dream of making movies. they are made easy for the student requirin ...

Author: Robin L. Murray & Joseph K. Heumann

Although some credit the environmental movement of the 1970s, with its profound impact on children's television programmes and movies, for paving the way for later eco-films, the history of environmental expression in an ...

Author: Scott Wilson

Canadian film director David Cronenberg has long been a figure of artistic acclaim and public controversy. Bursting into view with a trio of shocking horror films in the 1970s, Cronenbergs work has become increasingly co ...

Author: Rick Armstrong

The life and work of motion picture director Robert Altman (1925-2006) is interpreted from a variety of perspectives in this collection of essays. Included are insights on Mr. Altman and his five-decade career from actor ...

Author: Wheeler W. Dixon & Freddie Francis

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Author: Neil P. Hurley

Neil Hurley demonstrates Hitchcock's covert preoccupation with spiritual themes-conscience, guilt, false accusation, crises as catalysts of character development, personal romance, the salvation of nations, and the "unju ...

Author: Maureen A. Ryan

Author: Robert Stam

"Supple and sophisticated, Francois Truffaut and Friends tells an affecting story--several stories--and does so with verve."--Dudley Andrew, Professor of Comparative Literature and Film Studies, Yale University "An origi ...

Author: Gerald Peary

Not since Martin Scorsese in the mid-1970s has a young American filmmaker made such an instant impact on international cinema as Quentin Tarantino, whose PULP FICTION won the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prix Award. A ma ...

Author: Vernon W. Gras

In these twenty-one interviews, filmmaker Peter Greenaway expresses his film aesthetic and discusses his combat with the dominant Hollywood style of filmmaking. His films have run unmistakably against the main current ...

Author: Gael Chandler

This second edition of Cut by Cut: Editing Your Film or Video covers the current landscape of postproduction process, taking the reader step by step through the editor's journey from receiving dailies to delivering on ...

Author: Peter J. Pepe & Joseph W. Zarzynski

Documentary filmmaker Peter Pepe and historical archaeologist Joseph W. Zarzynski provide a concise guide to filmmaking designed to help archaeologists navigate the unfamiliar world of documentary film. They offer a step ...

Author: Andrew Moor

The film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was one of the most remarkable and visionary in cinema. They made an extraordinary range of films, from The Spy in Black and The Life and Death of Col ...

Author: Gene D. Phillips

From his first feature film, "Fear and Desire" (1953), to his final, posthumously released "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999), Stanley Kubrick excelled at probing the dark corners of human consciousness. In doing so, he adapted ...