Direction Production category: 829 books
The Strategic Producer
On the Art and Craft of Making Your First Feature
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Today’s technologies and economic models won’t settle for a conventional approach to filmmaking. The Strategic Producer: On the Art and Craft of Making Your First Feature combines history, technology, aesthetics, data, decision-making strategies, and time-tested methods into a powerful new approach...
The Business of Film
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
The updated second edition of this text introduces readers to the business of film at every stage of the filmmaking lifecycle, from planning and production to distribution. Authors Paula Landry and Stephen R. Greenwald offer a practical, hands-on guide to the business aspects of this evolving industry,...
by Richard Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
What is the role of a Director? Tyrannical dictator or creative persuader? Why does the audience matter when interpreting a play? How do you get the best out of actors and what do they expect from you? Directing for the Stage addresses the key questions surrounding this venerable and yet often invisible...
Regarding Frank Capra
Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930–1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
In this innovative historical examination of the American movie audience, Eric Smoodin focuses on reactions to the films of Frank Capra. Best known for his Hollywood features—including It Happened One Night, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington—Capra also directed educational...
Eyes Wide Shut
Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some 50 years before he finally put it into production. Using the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University...
Making a Winning Short
How to Write, Direct, Edit, and Produce a Short Film
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Making a Winning Short is the first book to give hands-on instruction on how to write, direct, edit, and produce a fictional short in film or video. Edmond Levy guides the beginning filmmaker step-by-step through the stages of making a short: writing the script (from developing the idea to fine-tuning...
Time, Technology and Narrative Form in Contemporary US Television Drama
Pause, Rewind, Record
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
This book examines how television has been transformed over the past twenty years by the introduction of new viewing technologies including DVDs, DVRs and streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. It shows that these platforms have profoundly altered the ways we access and watch television,...
Reality Television Contracts
How to Negotiate the Best Deal
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Reality television is the growth area of television today. Individuals around the country want to be involved, whether in front of the camera or behind, and those who want to produce reality television seek to attract talent-maybe from the local beauty salon or perhaps the rodeo, extermination company,...
Instant Digital Audio
VASST Instant Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
The rapid drop in costs of digital audio recording and production tools has led to widespread adoption by "non-audio" people. Multimedia producers, including videographers and graphic designers producing for the Web and other media, need to learn the many details of producing digital audio....
Hollywood by Hollywood
The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day. What gives backstudios their coherence as a distinctive genre, Steven Cohan argues in Hollywood by Hollywood, is their fascination with...
by Charles Grippo
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Expert, Practical Advice for Everyone in Show Business
Now updated and expanded, this second edition of The Stage Producer’s Business and Legal Guide is the ultimate survival kit for anyone presenting live entertainment. The information contained in this handbook is essential for those working...
Kevin Kearney
Audio Artist, Sound Designer, Analogue Location Sound Recordist
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Kevin Kearney-Audio Artist, Sound Designer, Location Sound Recordist follows the growth of television, television commercial production and filmmaking in Australia.
The extremely small population of Australia up to the seventies allowed a major crossover in the arts between poets, musicians,...
The Directors: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The filmmakers who defy convention and validate the legitimacy of the auteur theory are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From foreign masters of direction and style Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini to champions of independent film...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Steven Spielberg has fashioned an enviable career as a writer, producer, and director of American motion pictures, winning Academy Awards for Best Direction (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List), and for Best Film (Schindler's List). With David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg he founded Dreamworks...