Film Production: Technical & Background Skills

John Thornton Caldwells landmark Specworld demonstrates how twenty-first-century media industries monetize and industrialize creative labor at all ...

John Thornton Caldwells landmark Specworld demonstrates how twenty-first-century media industries monetize and industrialize creative labor at all ...

A fascinating guide to themes and films in the expanding Japanese megaverse. For fans, culture watchers, and perplexed outsiders, this expanded edi...

Indie Film Producing explains the simple, basic, clear cut role of the independent film producer. Raising funds to do your dream project, producing...

The Fake Food Cookbook: Props You Cant Eat for Theatre, Film, and TV contains step by step instructions on how to create the most realistic prop fo...

Filmmaking, the definitive resource for filmmakers, blows the doors off the secretive film industry and shows you how to adapt the Hollywood system...

In Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey's theory of delayed cinema to ideas on time and the relat...

The prevalence of loss and mourning, and of charged relationships with parents or parental figures has had a surprising influence on several Americ...

In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics,...

In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics,...

Avatar. Inception. Jurassic Park. Lord of the Rings. Ratatouille. Not only are these some of the highest-grossing films of all time, they are also ...

This open access book examines how Pinewood came to be Britains dominant film studio complex, focusing on key years following the Second World War....

The first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classics.   Ishiro Honda was arguably the most intern...

Drawing on his experiences directing films in Ireland, Haiti, Brazil and South Africa, McLaughlin reflects on the potential of documentary film to ...

To anyone who wants to make a doc but doesnt have a lot of time, money, or experience, Anthony Artis says: Its time to get down and dirty!a filmmak...

An official behind-the-scenes companion to New Line Cinemas IT and IT CHAPTER TWO, the globally popular blockbusters Collecting the best artwork ...

The crack of thunder, a blood-curdling scream, creaking doors, or maybe complete silence. Sounds such as these have helped frighten and startle ...

The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom have made Wes Anderson a prestige force. Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums have become quotable cult ...

This is the first book-length study to examine the enduring popularity of block-buster films based on DC or Marvel superhero comics properties. It ...

The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early 1970s has become one of the most romanticized periods in motion picture history, celebrated for i...

Of all the artisans who work in the American film industry, directors have been given the lion's share of attention. Yet few books in this literatu...

Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until n...