Film Production: Technical & Background Skills

Greek Cinema and Migration provides a response to urgent calls to comprehend the cultural impact of immigration in Greece, and to determine the cap...

This collection of exciting new research on British cinema of the 1960s reconsiders and reframes the film culture that emerged from that tumultuous...

Casting fresh light on one of the most important movements in film history, Intermedial Dialogues: The French New Wave and the Other Arts is the fi...

Moroccan film production has increased rapidly since the late 2000s, and Morocco is a thriving service production hub for international film and te...

Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in globa...

An illustrated monograph on the work of legendary writer/director David Cronenberg, master of body horror and cinematic provocateur behind films su...

Written by senior compositor, technical director, and master trainer Steve Wright, this book condenses years of production experience into an easy-...

Learn to avoid the costly mistakes that commonly plague independent filmmakers with this concise and informative how-to guide. Laced with examples ...

A friendly, hands-on training manual and reference for lighting technicians in motion picture and television production, this handbook is the most ...

Accelerate your Final Cut Studio workflow and expand your creative options by incorporating the Adobe Production Premium toolset into your projects...

A practical, hands-on guide to lighting for video, this book explores how LEDs are changing the aesthetics of lighting and provides students with a...

Post-Production and the Invisible Revolution of Filmmaking studies the discourses surrounding post-production, as well as the aesthetic effects of ...

A practical, hands-on guide to lighting for video, this book explores how LEDs are changing the aesthetics of lighting and provides students with a...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of techniques, processes, and professional practices in the area of Motion Design, from fundamental build...

Digital Design for Custom Textiles: Patterns as Narration for Stage and Film is a beginner's guide for creating custom textile patterns for perform...

A friendly, hands-on training manual and reference for lighting technicians in motion picture and television production, this handbook is the most ...

As film students and younger fans experience Big Hollywood Sound in Imax presentations and digital theaters, many are also discovering action and a...

Anthony Q. Artis is a 30-year veteran of the fi lm and TV industry whose features and TV shows have screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and the I...

A guide to the craft of script supervising, the updated second edition features practical instruction through real-world examples that demonstrate ...

A guide to the craft of script supervising, the updated second edition features practical instruction through real-world examples that demonstrate ...

Real-Time Video Content for Virtual Production & Live Entertainment looks at the evolution of current software and hardware, how these tools ar...

Real-Time Video Content for Virtual Production & Live Entertainment looks at the evolution of current software and hardware, how these tools ar...

This book illustrates a distinctive lineage of critical interventions in moving image culture and in the public sphere through the trajectories of ...

As only an accomplished author, consummate collector, and savvy insider can, John Kobal tells the story of the man who invented Hollywood, Cecil Bl...

A career-spanning volume, Tyler Perry: Interviews collects sixteen interviews, ranging from the early 2000s to 2018. Once a destitute and strugglin...

Su Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent film...

Animated by a singularly subversive spirit, the fiendishly intelligent works of Stuart Gordon (19472020) are distinguished by their arrant boldness...

In Albert and David Maysles: Interviews, editor Keith Beattie has compiled a wide-ranging collection in which the brothers, together and separately...

A filmmaker whose work exhibits a wide range of styles and approaches, Louis Malle (19321995) was the only French director of his generation to enj...

Taiwanese born, Ang Lee (b. 1954) has produced diverse films in his award-winning body of work. Sometimes working in the West, sometimes in the Eas...

Here, in his own colorful, slangy words, is the true American Dream saga of a self-proclaimed film geek, with five intense years working in a video...

In a world where movie marketers are the stars of the story, Opening Weekend: An Insider's Look at Marketing Hollywood's Hits and Flops recounts Ji...

Alan Ball: Conversations features interviews that span Alan Ball's entire career and include detailed observations and insights into his Academy Aw...

Prolific British director Michael Winterbottom (b. 1961) might be hard to pin down and even harder to categorize. Over sixteen years, he has create...

Anthony Minghella: Interviews is an illuminating anthology of in-depth conversations with this important contemporary film director and producer. T...

Abraham Polonsky (19101999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspiration...

Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve film makers in expressing their id...

Cine Craft (1974) is an ideal guide to the world of amateur film making, a treasure-house of authoritative information. It covers the equipment, bo...

Merchant-Ivory: Interviews gathers together, for the first time, interviews made over a span of fifty years with director James Ivory (b. 1928), pr...

Containing more than 2,200 entries from the most current Star Wars film and TV series, discover the vital facts about iconic characters, creatures,...

Lois Weber (1879-1939) was one of early Hollywood's most successful screenwriter-directors. A one-time Church Army worker who preached from street ...