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  • Art History for Filmmakers

    The Art of Visual Storytelling

    Series series Required Reading Range
    Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to describe visual things. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its relationship with the visual arts – mainly painting, the oldest of the art forms.Art History for Filmmakers is an inspiring guide to how images from ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Interstellar

    The Complete Screenplay With Selected Storyboards

    In Interstellar a group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.The screenplay of Interstellar is written by Christopher Nolan and his frequent collaborator, Jonathan Nolan.In addition to the screenplay, this screenplay book also contains over 200 pages of storyboards and ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • The Oliver Stone Experience (Text-Only Edition)

    Stone himself serves as guide to this no-holds-barred retrospective—an extremely candid and comprehensive monograph of the renowned and controversial writer, director, and cinematic historian in interview form.Over the course of five years, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone (Midnight Express, Scarface, Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Snowden) and New York Times be... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fritz Lang

    The Nature of the Beast

    The name of Fritz Lang—the visionary director of Metropolis, M, Fury, The Big Heat, and thirty other unforgettable films—is hallowed the world over. But what lurks behind his greatest legends and his genius as a filmmaker? Patrick McGilligan, placed among “the front rank of film biographers” by the Washington Post, spent four years in Europe and America interviewing Lang’s dying contemporaries, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • On Low Budget Film Making,Digital Film Making Interviews

    by rodney cannon ...
    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 way to lear is from those who are putting in the time and sweat equity.This is a digital film making ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Story of Looking

    by Mark Cousins ...
    The acclaimed author and filmmaker's investigation into the human gaze through history, art and science, paints an illuminating portrait of our culture.Looking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the blurry, edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the landscape of screens we grow into, looking can define us.In The Story of Looking, filmmaker and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Video Art

    A History of Video Art is a revised and expanded edition of the 2006 original, which extends the scope of the first edition, incorporating a wider range of artists and works from across the globe and explores and examines developments in the genre of artists' video from the mid 1990s up to the present day. In addition, the new edition expands and updates the discussion of theoretical concepts and ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Scenes of Projection

    Recasting the Enlightenment Subject

    by Jill H. Casid ...
    Theorizing vision and power at the intersections of the histories of psychoanalysis, media, scientific method, and colonization, Scenes of Projection poaches the prized instruments at the heart of the so-called scientific revolution: the projecting telescope, camera obscura, magic lantern, solar microscope, and prism. From the beginnings of what is retrospectively enshrined as the origins of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Situated Listening

    The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema

    Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen. While music has played a central role in film narrative since the conception of moving pictures, the representation of music listening has remained a special occurrence. In Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema, author Giorgio Biancorosso argues ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Producing

    Series series Behind the Silver Screen Series
    Of all the job titles listed in the opening and closing screen credits, producer is certainly the most amorphous. There are businessmen (and women)-producers, writer-director- and movie-star-producers; producers who work for the studio; executive producers whose reputation and industry clout alone gets a project financed (though their day-to-day participation in the project may be negligible). The ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Art of the Cut

    Conversations with Film and TV Editors

    Art of the Cut provides an unprecedented look at the art and technique of contemporary film and television editing. It is a fascinating "virtual roundtable discussion" with more than 50 of the top editors from around the globe. Included in the discussion are the winners of more than a dozen Oscars for Best Editing and the nominees of more than forty, plus numerous Emmy winners and nominees. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Shoot, Edit, Share

    Video Production for Mass Media, Marketing, Advertising, and Public Relations

    Shoot, Edit, Share is an interactive, accessible introduction to video production techniques, concepts, and terminology. With the increasing availability of affordable video equipment, many students and professionals need to learn the basics of video production without being overwhelmed by technical details and equipment lists. Covering preproduction, production, editing in post, and distribution, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD