Direction category: 829 books
Cecil B. DeMille
The Art of the Hollywood Epic
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Colossal. Stupendous. Epic. These adjectives, used by movie companies to hawk their wares, became clichés long ago. When used to describe the films of one director, they are accurate. More than any filmmaker in the history of the medium, Cecil B. DeMille mastered the art of the spectacle. In the...
In Two Minds: a Biography of Jonathan Miller
A Biography of Jonathan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In Two Minds... is the story of Jonathan Miller, one of post war Britain's most intriguing polymaths. Descended from immigrants who fled Tsarist anti-Semitism to become shopkeepers in Ireland and London's East End, Miller was born into an intellectual milieu, between Bloomsbury and Harley Street -...
Sergei Eisenstein
A Life in Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
“Will reward the attention of anyone interested in either film or Soviet history” (Publishers Weekly).
Based on new material released from archives after the fall of the Soviet Union, as well as on Eisenstein’s personal letters, diaries, and sketches, Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict...
by Mr Edward Braun
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Meyerhold on Theatre brings together in one volume Vsevolod Meyerhold's most significant writings and utterances, and covers his entire career as a director from 1902 to 1939. It contains a comprehensive selection from all published material, unabridged and translated from the original Russian, updated...
Howard Hawks
The Grey Fox of Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The first major biography of one of Old Hollywood’s greatest directors.
Sometime partner of the eccentric Howard Hughes, drinking buddy of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, an inveterate gambler and a notorious liar, Howard Hawks was the most modern of the great masters and one of the first...
Nicholas Ray
The Glorious Failure of an American Director
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Award-winningfilm historian Patrick McGilligan follows hisacclaimed biographies of Alfred Hitchcock and Oscar Micheauxwith a revelatory look at the life of Nicholas Ray, the troubled director of Ina Lonely Place, We Can’t GoHome Again, and Rebel Without a Cause. McGilligancharts the cerebral struggles,...
6 Degrees of Film
The Future of Film in the Global Village
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This book is intended for film buffs of all ages, and in fact anyone interested in learning more about the history of fi lm. 6 Degrees of Film will take you on a short trip through the history of the movies where you will learn about the surprising connections between the fi lms of the past and the...
Sundancing
Hanging Out And Listening In At America's Most Important Film Festival
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Every winter, 8,000 feet above sea level in the Utah snow, the hopes and dreams of young moviemakers are put on display at the Sundance Film Festival--the haven for independent films where you can show up a kid and go home a star. In barely twenty years of existence, the festival--now overseen by...
Adventures in Movies
An Intimate Chronicle of 25 Years Working in the Film Industry from Roger Rabbit to Harry Potter
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
A wry, witty and revealing review of the last 25 years working 'behind the scenes' in the film industry; from 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' to 'Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince', taking in, 'Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade' and 'Sherlock Holmes' along the way. Loaded with many anecdotes about...
by Rick Friedberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
How to Make It in Hollywood: The Inside Story is an often funny, always enlightening insider's view on how to break into the world of show business and navigate its shark-infested waters.
Filled with anecdotal "war stories" of working with Academy-award winning talent, each short...
Whatever It Takes
Life Lessons from Degrassi and Elsewhere in the World of Music and Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
This book will change the way you think about success.
Producer of television’s iconic Degrassi franchise Stephen Stohn tells stories from behind the scenes and of making it in the music and television world in this star-studded, rock ’n’ roll trip through a Canadian show business explosion....
When The Shooting Stops ... The Cutting Begins
A Film Editor's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
The story of one of the most important and least-understood jobs in moviemaking-film editing-is here told by one of the wizards, Ralph Rosenblum, whose credentials include six Woody Allen films, as well as The Pawnbroker, The Producers, and Goodbye, Columbus. Rosenblum and journalist Robert Karen...
Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers
The Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A companion volume to George Stevens, Jr.’s, much admired book of American Film Institute seminars with the great pioneering moviemakers (“Invaluable”—Martin Scorsese).
Those represented here—directors, producers, writers, actors, cameramen, composers, editors—are men and women working...
Documentary Superstars
How Today's Filmmakers Are Reinventing the Form
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
The first book to trace the rise of documentaries as mainstream entertainment. When did documentaries get glamorous? Documentary Superstars looks at the history of documentaries and traces their transition from hands-off to in your face. Exclusive interviews with Michael Moore, Morgan Spurlock, Errol...