Film Production: Technical & Background Skills

If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and...

Revolutionary thinking around gender and race merged with new film technologies to usher in a wave of women's documentaries in the 1970s. Driven by...

This book presents a comprehensive history and analysis of Secret Cinema the leading producer of large-scale immersive experiences in the UK. It e...

This comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of the most famous director who has ever lived, Steven Spielberg. Spielberg is...

This edited volume offers a wide-ranging picture of Argentine women filmmakers contribution to the film industry from the 1980s to the present by b...

This is Halloween . . . and its all in one place! Count down to the most festive of holidays in Halloween Town with the gloriously ghastly gifts in...

The Disney Villains have come to haunt your holiday with mini books, mementos, decorations, and other tricks and treats! Why celebrate Halloween on...

This fully revised and updated fourth edition of Motion Picture and Video Lighting explores the technical, aesthetic, and practical aspects of ligh...

This exhilarating pop-up book invites you to relive the movie adventures of Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, and the Boy Who LivedHarry Potteras you ...

A guide to making movies at home with whatever equipment you have, learning the basics of cinematographic and storytelling techniques. Filmmaking,...

Sound in cinema is a fascinating area that is just beginning to get the attention it deserves. This innovative book highlights the workers who coll...

Experience a cinematic origin story of the infamous DC villain as never before with this unique edition of the Academy Award-nominated Joker screen...

Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (19282019) wrote and directed some of the most accl...

Of all the job titles in the screen credits, 'producer' is the most amorphous, partly because these people are uniquely involved in several aspects...

Noted film noir historians Alain Silver and James Ursini acting as editors concentrate in this work on the thirty key directors of the classic no...

With On Screen Directing, renowned filmmaker Edward Dmytryk distills a lifetime of experience as a director into a dozen short essays on the craft ...

By examining three case studies of award-winning soundtracks from cult filmsBarton Fink (1991), Bram Stokers Dracula (1992), and The English Patien...

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...

In the Harry Potter films, each wand is as unique as the witch or wizard who wields it. Whether talon-shaped like Bellatrix Lestranges or simple an...

Renowned for his masterful storytelling, Alan J. Pakula (19281998) left an indelible mark on cinema history. Alan J. Pakula: Interviews offers a co...

Covering everything from Hollywood films to Soviet cinema, Londons queer spaces to spaceships, horror architecture and action scenes, Screen Interi...

Born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1941, acclaimed filmmaker Severo Perez moved to Los Angeles in 1972 to pursue a career in the motion picture industr...

Critical wisdom has it that we said a long goodbye to film noir in the 1950s. Robert Miklitsch begs to differ. Pursuing leads down the back streets...

What purpose does place serve in films? When it is not just a background to actions, or indistinguishable from the landscape, or a simple space to ...

The nimble, creative spirit of Quebecois screenwriter and filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve, is reflected in his varied body of work. Villeneuve explores...

Originally conceived as a workbook for young directors ÊThe Little Blue Book for FilmmakersÊ has become a handbook for easy reference with all th...

ÊThe Complete Guide to Writing Producing and Directing a Low-Budget Short FilmÊ is a comprehensive step-by-step overview of how to complete and p...

Award-winning independent filmmaker Glenn Berggoetz shares all he knows about making a marketable feature film for $2 000. While most books on inde...

The seemingly effortless integration of sound, movement, and editing in films of the late 1930s stands in vivid contrast to the awkwardness of the ...

Freak Scenes explores the increased licensing of indie music and representation of indie music cultures within American independent cinema since th...

A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on films unique ability to move usCinema is commonly hailed as the univer...