The Hollywood Guide to Film Budgeting & Script Breakdown
by Danford Chamness
Follow seven enthusiastic, ambitious would-be moviemakers through three years of straggle, misadventure, and triumph in the film business -- from pitch meetings to the Sundance Film Festival to the actual making of a feature film by one of the young directors.The seven featured players -- men and women, white and African-American, gay and straight -- are all collegiate award-winners or fellowship honorees. All hail from one of the Big Five film schools -- AFI, Columbia, NYU, UCLA, and USC -- and...
The Art of the Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
by Dermot Power
Step inside the world of the talented art departments who, led by Academy Award (R)-winning production designer Stuart Craig, were responsible for the creation of the unforgettable characters, locations and beasts in J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The Art of the Film, edited by concept artist Dermot Power, takes you on a magical journey through a design process every bit as wonderful as Newt Scamander's adventure in the wizarding world. Bursting with...
Following on from the New York Times-bestselling My Boring-Ass Life, Kevin Smith is back! In freewheeling conversations with his friend and producer Scott Mosier (as heard on their top-rated podcast, known as SModcast), we discover — to pick just four random examples of the riches therein — the genesis of Stalin’s Monkey Soldier army, the horrifying tale of Kevin vs. Steak Tartare, how to make bukkake eggs, and how Kevin was once willing to let Alanis Morissette get mugged... Defiantly lewd,...
Do you pay a visit to Bedford Falls every Christmas? Does December feel incomplete without a reminder that "no man is a failure who has friends"? If George and Mary Bailey are annual guests at your home during the holidays, you already know that It's A Wonderful Life is far more than just a festive seasonal film. It's a reflection of what we can be when we're at our best and a reminder that our lives can change everyone around us-for better or worse. Revisit the defining lessons in Frank Capra's...
An essential text on filmmaking that every student, scholar, and teacher of films should own. In it, some of the motion picture industry's most important directors including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Howard Hawks, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini, Blake Edwards, Francois Truffaut, and René Clair answer questions on the decisions that all directors must make before filming a movie, questions that help the reader understand the concept of filmmaking. They cover all aspects of filmmaking incl...
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Semiotics of Exile in Contemporary Chinese Film (Semiotics and Popular Culture)
by Hong Zeng
Directors and Directions; Cinema for the Seventies
by MR John Russell Taylor
Samuel Goldwyn was the premier dream-maker of his era, and in this lavishly-praised biography, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Lindbergh and Max Perkins: Editor of Genius offers a life story as rich with drama as anything found on the silver screen...
"Animators Unearthed" is an introduction to some of the world's top animation filmmakers, whose faces and voices remain largely unseen and unappreciated outside of the animation community. Chris Robinson discusses why it's been neglected and where you can find the work. He aims to bring this art form, and its creators, to the forefront by tracing the history of this personal and artistic animation. Throughout its history, animation has been primarily defined as cartoons that make people laugh, a...
Productivity Journal Chalkboard Design (Business Journals Notebooks Diaries)
by Distinctive Journals