Arts / Film & Video

The Film Director's Bag of Tricks: How to Get What You Want from Writers and Actors

by Mark Travis

Provides a dazzling array of useful tips to get the performances you want from your actors

My Story Can Beat Up Your Story: Ten Ways to Toughen Up Your Screenplay from Opening Hook to Knockout Punch

by Jeffrey Schechter

My Story Can Beat Up Your Story! is the same powerful, easytolearn system that industry insiders have used to generate millions of dollars in script sales and assignments.

Getting it Done: The Ultimate Production Assistnat Guide

by Joshua Friedman

Only a fool would enter a film set without having first read this production manual. There is no faster way up the ladder than being prepared and no faster way out the door than by screwing up. This manual was...

You're Funny: Turn Your Sense of Humor into a Lucrative New Career

by DB Gilles

You're Funny! is the next best thing to being in a comedy writing class. It covers the different ways to earn a living as a comedy writer, including writing sitcoms, jokes for late night talk shows, parody,...

First Time Director: How to Make Your Breakthrough Movie

by Gil Bettman

This book explains in precise, easy to understand language everything the novice director needs to know before taking on his or her first professional assignment.

The Woman in the Story: Writing Memorable Female Characters

by Helen Jacey

Inspired by female psychology and gender issues, this howto book casts a refreshingly honest and empowering womencentric light on every stage of the screenwriting process.

So, You're A Creative Genius, Now What?

by Carl King

Until now there hasn't been a comprehensive, philosophical guide to prepare you for the strange, beautiful, and downright dangerous lifestyle known as a Creative Career. So, You're A Creative Genius... Now What?...

Writing Subtext: What Lies Beneath

by Linda Seger

Partly a howto book, partly an exploration of this important topic, Writing Subtext explores all the underlying meanings that lie beneath the words, images, and actions in film, which are also applicable to...

Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir

by Piper Laurie

An intimate memoir by three-time Oscar nominee Piper Laurie, one of Hollywood's most gifted and respected actresses

At the age of seventeen, in the glory days of movie-making, Piper Laurie was living every little...

Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only

by Patrick McGilligan

Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical investigation...

The Film Director Prepares: A Complete Guide to Directing for Film and Tv

by Myrl A. Schreibman

• 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...

The Calling Card Script: A writer’s toolbox for screen, stage and radio

by Paul Ashton

The calling card script is the script that expresses your voice, gets you noticed and helps you reach commission and production. Written by Paul Ashton, Development Manager of the BBC writersroom, and born out...

America Reflected: Language, Satire, Film, and the National Mind

by Peter C. Rollins

America Reflected offers eclectic film criticism and considerations of distinctive American voices from the ante-bellum era to the present.

"Rollins examines the roles of language, satire, and film in reflecting...

Sci-Fi Movie Freak

by Robert C. Ring

Sci-Fi Movie Freak is packed with the spine-tingling excitement and thrilling moments that have made sci-fi movies a beloved genre. This book celebrates over 100 diverse movies that have helped raise the level...

Hollywood Animal

by Joe Eszterhas

Joe Eszterhas had everything Hollywood could offer. A combination of insider and rebel, he saw and participated in the fights, the deals, the backstabbing, and all the sex and drugs. But here, in his candid...

Post-9/11 Cinema: Through a Lens Darkly

by John Markert

Covering cinematic portrayals of 9/11 and the subsequent incursions into Iraq and Afghanistan, Post-9/11 Cinema: Through a Lens Darkly examines both dramas and documentaries that depict what some have termed...

Conversations with Cinematographers

by David Ellis

In Conversations with Cinematographers, David Ellis has assembled interviews with some of the most influential and highly regarded cameramen of the last half century and more. While their names may not be known...

Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare’s King Lear: A close study of the relationship between text and film

by Yvonne Griggs

This close study of film adaptations of King Lear looks atseveral different versions (mainstream, art-house and cinematic’offshoots’) and discusses: the literary text in its historicalcontext, key themes and...

Assisting Venus: The Original Screenplay

by Michele Martín & Charles Huddleston

The original shooting script for the independent feature film Assisting Venus from writer Michele Martín and writer/director Charles Huddleston. Greg Severin (Michael Steger), a shy and awkward young man stuck...

Steve McQueen: A Biography

by Marc Eliot

Steve McQueen is one of America’s legendary movie stars best known for his hugely successful film career in classics such as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, and The...