Film Production: Technical & Background Skills

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 ...

The camera's capacity to organize space within a frame produces the fundamental unit of movie making: the shot. Dramatic Effects with a Movie Cam...

Drawing from author Tim Palmer's 30 years of experience working as a cinematographer for award-winning drama series including Killing Eve, Bad Sist...

Drawing from author Tim Palmer's 30 years of experience working as a cinematographer for award-winning drama series including Killing Eve, Bad Sist...

A must-have read for anyone looking to take their independently-produced film or video into the 3rd dimension. The text features technical, practic...

Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work. A new fo...

First Cut 2: More Conversations with Film Editors presents a new collection of twelve interviews with award-winning film editors who discuss the ar...

The core goal of Directing Screen Performances is to teach aspiring directors how to prepare and work with actors. Through a practical exploration ...

The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema itself. Even the very first projected moving images were accompanied by music ...

Post Sound Design provides a practical introduction to the fascinating craft of editing and replacing dialog, creating Foley and sound effects, edi...

Denys Arcand is best known outside Canada for three films that were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film: The Decline of the...

In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, author Hannah Lewis gives readers fascinating new insights into the development, style, and reception of the...

Paul Thomas Andersons evolution from a brash, self-anointed Indiewood auteur to one of his generations most distinctive voices has been one of the ...

Paul Thomas Andersons evolution from a brash, self-anointed Indiewood auteur to one of his generations most distinctive voices has been one of the ...

Develop your creative voice while acquiring the practical skills and confidence to use it with this new and fully updated edition of Mick Hurbis-Ch...

This book, written by a leading expert in the field of visual effects (VFX), demystifies the complex subject of color science and how it should be ...

This book, written by a leading expert in the field of visual effects (VFX), demystifies the complex subject of color science and how it should be ...

This book guides you through the process of using your phone to create different kinds of video and audio for TV, theaters, YouTube, TikTok, and po...

This book guides you through the process of using your phone to create different kinds of video and audio for TV, theaters, YouTube, TikTok, and po...

Successful cult films like The Host and Snowpiercer proved to be harbingers for Bong Joon Hos enormous breakthrough success with Parasite. Joseph J...

Successful cult films like The Host and Snowpiercer proved to be harbingers for Bong Joon Hos enormous breakthrough success with Parasite. Joseph J...

Known for his highly cinematic visual style, out-of-sequence storytelling, and grandiose violence, Quentin Tarantinos films have provoked both prai...

Beyond the principles of reduce, reuse, recycle, this book looks at how every department on a production can minimize its environmental impact.Is y...

Beyond the principles of reduce, reuse, recycle, this book looks at how every department on a production can minimize its environmental impact.Is y...

Every broom has a story of its own. In the Harry Potter films, wizarding broomsticks are magical artifacts that enable their riders to soar from o...

Experience The Batman in an all-new way, with this deluxe version of the films thrilling script. Follow the Caped Crusader early in his career as h...

I have a great idea for a documentary. Now what do I do? The DocumentarianThe Way to a Successful and Creative Professional Life in the Documentary...

Design is at the essence of storytelling, but how does a production find its style and identity? This book explains how to approach design, whether...

In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, author Hannah Lewis gives readers fascinating new insights into the development, style, and reception of the...

In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, renowned author Geoffrey Block introduces scholars, students, and general readers to a remarkable musical fi...

In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, renowned author Geoffrey Block introduces scholars, students, and general readers to a remarkable musical fi...

In this three-part book-length study of the work of Gregg Toland, Philip Cowan explores approaches to co-authorship in collaborative filmmaking to ...