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Image and Mind
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 35.00This book develops a theory of the nature of the cinematic medium, of the psychology of film viewing, and of film narrative. more...
Video Production Handbook
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95Techniques matter! Great ideas don't automatically translate into great programs. It's not enough simply to show what is going on. The way you present your subject will influence how your audience responds. You need to choose your picture and sound carefully, to convey your ideas in an interesting, persuasive way. This book will show you how. ... more...
The Visual Story
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 34.95If you can't make it to one of Bruce Block's legendary visual storytelling seminars, then you need his book! Now in full color for the first time, this best-seller offers a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film, video, animated piece, or video game. You'll learn how to structure your visuals... more...
The Screenwriter's Workbook (Revised Edition)
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.00At last! The classic screenwriting workbook?now completely revised and updated?from the celebrated lecturer, teacher, and bestselling author, Syd Field: ?the most sought-after screenwriting teacher in the world?* No one knows more about screenwriting than Syd Field?and now the ultimate Hollywood insider shares his secrets and expertise, completely... more...
Groucho And Me
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 18.00"With impeccable timing, outrageous humor, irreverent wit, and a superb sense of the ridiculous, Groucho tells the saga of the Marx Brothers: the poverty of their childhood in New York's Upper East Si" more...
Romantic Comedy
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 17.99Romantic Comedy offers an introduction to the analysis of a popular but overlooked film genre. The book provides an overview of Hollywood's romantic comedy conventions, examining iconography, narrative patterns, and ideology. Chapters discuss important subgroupings within the genre: screwball sex comedy and the radical romantic comedy of the 1970s.... more...
Lee Marvin
Schaffner Press, Inc. 2013; US$ 14.99The first full-length, authoritative, and detailed story of the iconic actor's life to go beyond the Hollywood scandal-sheet reporting of earlier books, this account offers an appreciation for the man and his acting career and the classic films he starred in, painting a portrait of an individual who took great risks in his acting and career. Although... more...
The Cinema Makers
Intellect 2013; US$ 20.00The Cinema Makers investigates how cinema spectators in south-eastern and central European cities became cinema makers through such practices as squatting in existing cinema spaces, organizing cinema events, writing about film and making films themselves. Drawing on a corpus of interviews with cinema activists in Germany, Austria and the... more...
So You Want to Be a Producer
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 14.95Few jobs in Hollywood are as shrouded in mystery as the role of the producer. What does it take to be a producer, how does one get started, and what on earth does one actually do? In So You Want to Be a Producer Lawrence Turman, the producer of more than forty films, including The Graduate , The River Wild , Short Circuit , and American History... more...









