Direction Production category: 829 books
The Back Stage Guide to Stage Management, 3rd Edition
Traditional and New Methods for Running a Show from First Rehearsal to Last Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
The Most Widely Used Manual For Aspiring And Veteran Stage Managers - Now Revised and Expanded
The next best thing to shadowing a Broadway stage manager, this detailed, behind-the-scenes book as been brought completely up to date. First published in 1991, it is widely used and has been lauded...
Studios Before the System
Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and industrial mission in mind, which in turn influenced the form, content, and business of the...
by Nadine Holdsworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
This book uses original archival material to consider the theatrical and cultural innovations of Joan Littlewood and her company, 'Theatre Workshop'. Littlewood had a huge impact on the way theatre was generated, rehearsed and presented during the twentieth century.
Now reissued, Joan Littlewood...
The Film Director Prepares
A Complete Guide to Directing for Film and Tv
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
• Insider author gives no-nonsense advice
• Required reading for film students, educators, anyone interested in film
From script analysis to post production, here is the all-inclusive guide to directing for film and television. Written by noted director-producer Myrl Schreibman,...
Extreme DV at Used-Car Prices
How to Write, Direct, Shoot, Edit, and Produce a Digital Video Feature for LessT han $3,000
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
For years, award-winning independent filmmaker Rick Schmidt has been teaching aspiring directors how to make “no-budget” films, both in workshops and in his classic guide Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices. Now Schmidt shows them how it is easier—and cheaper—than ever to make an innovative,...
Directing Theater 101
10 Steps to Successful Productions for New Directors and Regional Theater Companies
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
What are the practical and creative elements for becoming a director?
How do you get started?
What is the best way for actors, designers, and crew to work with directors?
This guide provides regional theater companies and new directors with the knowledge and tools they need...
Film School
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
An “entertaining” memoir of a very non-typical film student making his way through USC’s famously competitive program (Los Angeles Times).
When Midwestern journalist Steve Boman applied to the University of Southern California’s vaunted School of Cinematic Arts, the world’s oldest...
Cassavetes Directs
John Cassavetes and the Making of Love Streams
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In 1983 visionary director John Cassavetes asked journalist Michael Ventura to write a unique film study—an on-set diary of the making of his film Love Streams. Cassavetes laid out his expectations. He wanted "a daring book, a tough book". In Ventura’s words, "All I had to do for...
How Not to Make a Short Film
Secrets from a Sundance Programmer
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Anyone can make a short film, right? Just grab some friends and your handheld and you can do it in a weekend or two before being accepted to a slew of film festivals, right?
Wrong.
Roberta Munroe screened short film submissions at Sundance for five years, and is an award-winning short...
Cinema Alchemist
Designing Star Wars and Alien
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
For the first time, Oscar-winning production designer and director Roger Christian reveals his life story, from his earliest work in the British film industry to his breakthrough contributions on such iconic science fiction masterpieces as Star Wars, Alien and his own rediscovered Black Angel.
This...
The Big Picture
Filmmaking Lessons from a Life on the Set
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Film production veteran Tom Reilly has worked on the sets of critically praised films and commercial blockbusters for more than three decades?including seventeen years alongside director Woody Allen. In The Big Picture, he explores the art and the craft of filmmaking from the vantage point of someone...
Hitchcock's Stars
Alfred Hitchcock and the Hollywood Studio System
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Although he was a visual stylist who once referred to actors as cattle, Alfred Hitchcock also had a remarkable talent for innovative and creative casting choices. The director launched the careers of several actors and completely changed the trajectory of others, many of whom created some of the most...
All about Almodóvar
A Passion for Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
One of world cinema’s most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodóvar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, and—above all—entertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst on the international film scene in the early 1980s. All about Almodóvar offers new perspectives on...
Understanding Machinima
Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
In this groundbreaking collection, Dr. Jenna Ng brings together academics and award-winning artists and machinima makers to explore the fascinating combination of cinema, animation and games in machinima (the use of computer game engines to produce animated films in cost- and time-efficient ways)....