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  • The Art of Nonfiction Movie Making

    by Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein, Sharon Wood ...
    The past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, March of the Penguins, and An Inconvenient Truth. And as news articles proclaim a new era in the history of documentary films, more and more new directors are making their first film a nonfiction one. But in addition to posing all of the usual challenges inherent to more standard filmmaking, documentaries ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Brilliant Jerk Conundrum: Thriving with and Governing a Dominant Visionary

    by Rob Shelton, Marc J. Epstein ...
    "For some [dominant visionaries], too much interference will stifle their ambition. For others, not interfering might allow them to go haywire and destroy the company. The Brilliant Jerk Conundrum shows how to tell the difference and what to do about it."—Srikant M. Datar, professor and senior associate dean at Harvard Business School and member of four boards"In my 50 years as an executive and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year***The Pixar Touch***is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the “fraternity of geeks” who shaped it. With the help of animating genius John Lasseter and visionary businessman Steve Jobs, Pixar has become the gold standard of animated filmmaking, beginning with a short special effects shot made at Lucasfilm in 1982 all ... Read more

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  • How To Read a Film

    Movies, Media, and Beyond

    by James Monaco ...
    Monaco's book was an instant classic when it first came out, and with new sections in its anniversary edition, is more essential than ever. A landmark in media studies, it is unique in its sophisticated understanding of both the art and technology of film. Molly Haskell, criticWhen it was first published in 1977, HOW TO READ A FILM established itself as a genuine classic in film studies and has ... Read more

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  • How Not to Make a Short Film

    Secrets from a Sundance Programmer

    by Roberta Marie Munroe ...
    Anyone can make a short film, right? Just grab some friends and your handheld and you can do it in a weekend or two before being accepted to a slew of film festivals, right?Wrong.Roberta Munroe screened short film submissions at Sundance for five years, and is an award-winning short filmmaker in her own right. So she knows a thing or two about how not to make a short film. From the first draft of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Walt Disney, A Life

    by The Editors of New Word City ...
    Walt Disney was one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century. He was an artist who created loveable characters who have become part of the planet's collective consciousness. He was a visionary leader who embraced innovation and built a vast entertainment empire that has delighted billions of people and thrives to this day. He was a philanthropist who founded one of the world's ... Read more

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  • The Book Bible

    How to Sell Your Manuscript—No Matter What Genre—Without Going Broke or Insane

    by Susan Shapiro ...
    A Brilliant, Buoyant Guide to Publishing Your BookHundreds of thousands of books come out every year worldwide. So why not yours? In The Book Bible, New York Times bestseller and wildly popular Manhattan writing professor Susan Shapiro reveals the best and fastest ways to break into a mainstream publishing house. Unlike most writing manuals that stick to only one genre, Shapiro maps out the rules ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Everything Filmmaking Book

    From Script to Premiere -a Complete Guide to Putting Your Vision on the Screen

    by Barb Karg, Jim Van Over, Rick Sutherland ...
    Series series Everything® Series
    Filmmaking is a notoriously difficult field to break into—a script’s chance of making it to production is a staggering 1 in every 140,000. But the millions of aspiring filmmakers can up their odds with The Everything Filmmaking Book. This engaging, easy-to-follow guide takes readers step-by-step through the filmmaking process, including:-Writing a marketable script-Understanding all aspects of pre ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Fact Checker's Bible

    A Guide to Getting It Right

    by Sarah Harrison Smith ...
    These days fact-checking can seem like a lost art. The Fact Checker's Bible arrives not a moment too soon: it is the first—and essential—guide to the important but increasingly neglected task of checking facts, whatever their source.We are all overwhelmed with information that claims to be factual, but even the most punctilious researcher, writer, and journalist can sometimes get it wrong, so ... Read more

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  • The Big Picture

    The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood

    by Edward Jay Epstein ...
    During the heyday of the studio system spanning the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s, virtually all the American motion picture industry’s money, power, and prestige came from a single activity: selling tickets at the box office. Today, the movie business is just a small, highly visible outpost in a media universe controlled by six corporations–Sony, Time Warner, NBC Universal, Viacom, Disney, and ... Read more

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  • Hollywood

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Decherney ...
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    In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires. He recounts how the studio system rose out of the ashes of Thomas Edison's trust to create the handful of companies that have dominated global screens and imaginations for more than 100 years. Throughout, he reveals that the elements we ... Read more

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  • The Reel Truth

    Everything You Didn't Know You Need to Know About Making an Independent Film

    by Reed Martin ...
    Did you know that most of the biggest indie filmmakers, screenwriters, and producers working today each made the same avoidable mistakes early on in their careers?The Reel Truth details the pitfalls, snares, and roadblocks that aspiring filmmakers encounter. Reed Martin interviewed more than one hundred luminaries from the independent film world to discuss the near misses that almost derailed ... Read more

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