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  • Producing Animation, 2nd Editionby Catherine Winder; Zahra Dowlatabadi; Tracey Miller-Zarneke

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 45.95

    You have a useful library of books covering the tools, techniques and aesthetics of animation, but you've been asked to put your production and creative skills to the test to produce a theatrical feature film or to deliver 52 episodes of a television series with only 18 months in the schedule. Producing Animation is your answer. Written by Catherine... more...

  • The Documentary Moviemaking Courseby Kevin Lindenmuth

    A&C Black 2010; US$ 19.50

    More filmmakers are employed in making documentary films than any other genre. Thanks to the user-friendly equipment available today, it is no longer an area that requires a film-school background to get started. This book shows how you can begin making your first documentary movies - from researching and defining your theme, style, and the treatment... more...

  • Sell Your Own Damn Movie!by Lloyd Kaufman

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 19.95

    This is the 3 rd volume in Mr. Kaufman's hilarious, how-to series for hard-working self-starters and hard-laughing, cheeky filmmakers. "Sell Your Own Damn Movie!" covers everything you need to do to get your finished film seen by festival-goers, movie-goers, DVD-buyers and web-goers around the world. You will be lead through a primer on the history... more...

  • Directors Tell the Storyby Bethany Rooney; Mary Lou Belli

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 25.95

    Move over, movies: the freshest storytelling today is on television, where the multi-episodic format is used for rich character development and innovative story arcs.  Directors Tell the Story offers rare insight and advice straight from two A-list television directors whose credits include Monk, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Weeds, and... more...

  • Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noiby Patrick Keating

    Columbia University Press 2009; US$ 27.99

    Lighting performs essential functions in Hollywood films, enhancing the glamour, clarifying the action, and intensifying the mood. Examining every facet of this understated art form, from the glowing backlights of the silent period to the shaded alleys of film noir, Patrick Keating affirms the role of Hollywood lighting as a distinct, compositional... more...

  • Designing for Screenby Georgina Shorter

    Crowood 2012; US$ 17.49

    Design is at the essence of storytelling, but how does a production find its style and identity? This book explains how to approach design, whether for film, television, video promo or commercial making, and introduces the techniques needed to make ideas happen. Through theory and practical exercises, it looks at design in a different way and shows... more...

  • Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwritersby Michael Tierno

    Hyperion 2012; US$ 13.99

    An insightful how-to guide for writing screenplays that uses Aristotle's great work as a guide. Long considered the bible for storytellers, Aristotle's Poetics is a fixture of college courses on everything from fiction writing to dramatic theory. Now Michael Tierno shows how this great work can be an invaluable resource to screenwriters or... more...

  • The Age of the Imageby Stephen Apkon; Martin Scorsese

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013; US$ 25.99

    An urgent, erudite, and practical book that redefines literacy to embrace how we think and communicate now We live in a world that is awash in visual storytelling. The recent technological revolutions in video recording, editing, and distribution are more akin to the development of movable type than any other such revolution in the last five hundred years.... more...

  • The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effectsby Rama Venkatasawmy

    Lexington Books 2012; US$ 74.99

    While many books have addressed visual effects in Hollywood cinema, The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood?s Coming of Age , by Rama Venkatasawmy, fills an important gap in cinematic analysis and film history by providing a periodization and techno-historical account of visual effects in Hollywood cinema. more...

  • Grammar of the Editby Christopher J. Bowen

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 24.95

    Learn the basic "grammar" of editing films and videos in Grammar of the Edit ! This book shows you in no uncertain terms (independently of software) what you absolutely need to know to edit your video production. Whether you are just learning how to edit or you need a refresher, this book gives you a basic toolkit to understand the basic terms and... more...