Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills

Films like Zama and The Headless Woman have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic's best lists.

Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.

Create vibrant visual effects with Adobe After Effects.

The Collaborative Director: A Department-by-Department Guide to Filmmaking explores the directorial process in a way that allows the director to gather the best ideas from the departments that make up a film crew, while making sure that it is the director's vision being shown on screen.

The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces by Interiors is a graphic exploration of architectural spaces in cinema that provides a new perspective on the relationship between architecture and film.

This is a comprehensive journey through the long career of auteur Hollywood filmmaker Walter Hill, director of The Driver, The Warriors, Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs.

The newly-revised and updated fourth edition of Grammar of the Shot teaches readers the principles behind successful visual communication in motion media through shot composition, screen direction, depth cues, lighting, camera movement, and shooting for editing.

Editing and Montage in International Film and Video presents a theoretical and practical approach to the art of editing.

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real time.

The core goal of Directing Screen Performances is to teach aspiring directors how to prepare and work with actors.

Today's independent and digital filmmaking demands a clear guide to the business and legal aspects of the art.

Film on Video: A Practical Guide to Making Video Look like Film is an accessible guide to making video captured on a camcorder, DSLR camera, smartphone, action camera or cinema camera look like it was shot on motion-picture celluloid film.

Hollywood's conversion from silent to synchronized sound film production not only instigated the convergence of the film and music industries but also gave rise to an extraordinary period of songs in American cinema.

Film is dead!

Music has been an integral part of film exhibition from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century.

Storytelling for Virtual Reality serves as a bridge between students of new media and professionals working between the emerging world of VR technology and the art form of classical storytelling.

Music plays an integral role in the experience of film, television, video games, and other media-yet for many directors, producers, and media creators, working with music can be a baffling and intimidating process.

In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema delineates a new performative genre based on replay and self-awareness.

By developing the concept of the "e;digital effects emblem,"e; Kristen Whissel contributes a new analytic rubric to cinema studies.

Whether it's a crew of two hundred shooting a cast of thousands on horseback, or a crew of twelve filming one person in a room, each and every successful movie production requires a strong First Assistant Director (AD) at its helm.

What is the significance of gendered identification in relation to artists' moving image?

Its unique ability to sway the masses has led many observers to consider cinema the artform with the greatest political force.

In Lessons from The Maestro: Crafting a Successful Fight/Stunt Career in Theatre and Film, famed Hollywood and theatre stuntman, trainer, and fight director David L.

Art of the Cut provides an unprecedented look at the art and technique of contemporary film and television editing.

Making the Cut at Pixar is an interactive book written by industry insiders Bill Kinder and Bobbie O'Steen about the central role the Pixar editor plays in some of the most critically acclaimed and successful movies of all time.

This book is an accessible guide, directed towards filmmakers with restricted resources and shortened schedules, who want to ensure their creation of riveting, fresh, and exciting projects.

This revised edition of Understanding the Business of Media Entertainment is an indispensable guide to the business aspects of the entertainment industry, providing the information you need to break in and to succeed.

Today's technologies and economic models won't settle for a conventional approach to filmmaking.

This book examines the challenges often experienced  by film practitioners who find themselves researching within the academy, either as students or academics.

Basics Film-Making: Directing Fiction introduces the essential aspects of the directorial process, focusing on the requirements of short films while also drawing on classic examples from the world of feature films.

This book argues that certain films have more to offer by way of conceptualising education than textual scholarship.

Steven Spielberg's extraordinary career redefined Hollywood, but his achievement goes far beyond shattered box office records.

Innovating the Design Process: A Theatre Design Journey explores the process of designing for theatre and details how each part of a designer's own process, no matter what their design specialization, can be innovated and adapted for a more confident journey and for better outcomes.

In the eighth, revised edition of this book, Ronald J.

Tapping experts in an industry experiencing major disruptions, The Movie Business Book is the authoritative, comprehensive sourcebook, covering online micro-budget movies to theatrical tentpoles.

In this edited volume, contributors explore an essential element of the influential television series Twin Peaks: the role of music and sound.

In the expanded second edition of Fine Cuts, Roger Crittenden reveals the experiences of the greatest European film editors through his warm and perceptive interviews.

In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon argues that 21st-century mainstream filmmaking is increasingly and troublingly dominated by "e;synthetic cinema.

The Art and Craft of TV Directing offers a broad and in-depth view of the craft of TV Directing in the form of detailed interviews with dozens of the industry's most accomplished episodic television directors.

This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur!

The cinematographer must translate the ideas and emotions contained in a script into something that can be physically seen and felt onscreen, helping the director to fulfil the vision of the film.

As a part of an extensive exploration, Reimagining Communication: Action investigates the practical implications of communication as a cultural industry, media ecology, and a complex social activity integral to all domains of life.

Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve film makers in expressing their ideas.

Explore the amazing Star Wars galaxy in stunning full-colour artworks.

Secrets of Screen Directing: The Tricks of the Trade is a practical guide which bridges the gap between classroom learning and the realities of being on a set.

A refreshing new practical approach to documentary filmmaking, Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking equips new and veteran filmmakers with the knowhow to make artistically rewarding documentaries for less money, less hassle, and less time.

Lighting for Televised Live Events unlocks the science, art, philosophies, and language of creating lighting for live entertainment and presentations that work for the television camera as well as for the live audience.