Film Production: Technical & Background Skills

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

Film on Video: A Practical Guide to Making Video Look like Film is an accessible guide to making video captured on a camcorder, DSLR camera, smartp...

Unlike other books on architecture and film, Architecture Filmmaking investigates how the now-expanded field of architecture utilizes the practice ...

Quotations are a standard way that the humanities make meaning; the pull-quote, epigraph, and quotation are standard for citing evidence and invoki...

During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and st...

Examines George A. Romero's regional production company Laurel Entertainment and its contribution to American cinema Reframes key academic analysi...

You’ve got an idea for the next great screenplay. Maybe you’re just getting started or perhaps you’ve spent time with other screenwriting books, an...

How to Make a Movie on a Tight BudgetToday’s indie film market is growing by leaps and bounds and filmmaker Rickey Bird and screenwriter and noveli...

Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accounts of the filmmaker. This ...

We can’t shoot good pictures without good lighting, no matter how good the newest cameras are. Shooting under available light gives exposure, but l...

BLAKE EDWARDS Blake Edwards: Film Director as Multitalented Auteur is the first critical analysis to focus on the dramatic works of Blake Edwards. ...

Only a few years after the 2013 Sundance Film Festival premiere of Blackfish - an independent documentary film that critiqued the treatment of orca...

In Totally Truffaut, author Anne Gillain answers two complex riddles: How is experience imprinted into films? What draws audiences to theaters? Fra...

Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The oppor...

An effective filmmaker needs to have a good understanding of how film language works, and more importantly, how to actively influence an audience’s...

The Art of the Filmmaker: The Practical Aesthetics of the Screen explores the filmmaker's intention and method, their creation and capture of the f...

This important and first-of-its-kind collection addresses the emerging challenges in the field of media art preservation and exhibition, providing ...

In recent decades, special effects have become a major new area of research in cinema studies. For the most part, they have been examined as specta...

This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, ...

With an abundance of information on how to create motion graphics already available, Design in Motion focuses on the why of moving image and less a...

Film editing is part of the long process of formulating, acquiring and presenting the images and sounds that make a film. The film editor makes dec...

After nearly fifty years of disrupting media, gleefully Rabelaisian uberindie filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman (b. 1945) has been maligned, mocked, and—wors...