Film Production: Technical & Background Skills

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 ...