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 The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World: Or, How to Build a DinosaurBest Price: $16.91 This book begins with a good overview of our understanding dinosaur biology. There is a... |  Secrets of Oscar-winning Animation: Behind the scenes of 13 classic short animationsBest Price: $21.00 This great historical overview of different animated shorts has now been translated from the... |  Edge of Midnight: The Life of John SchlesingerBest Price: $11.33 Edge Of Midnight: The Life Of John Schlesinger is the authorized biography of the filmmaker... |  The Truman Show: The Shooting ScriptBest Price: $7.40 This film is a Masterpiece of history of the contemporary cinema,wonderful book and wonderful... |  The Digital Filmmaking Handbook (Digital Filmmaking Series)Best Price: $28.00 For the beginnner this book is probably too advanced. It already assumes an understanding of... |
 Either You're in Or You're in the Way: Two Brothers, Twelve Months, and One Filmmaking Hell-Ride to a First FeatureBest Price: $17.81 |  Wild Style: The SamplerBest Price: $14.04 Damn...! This book is the 'JOINT", the "BOMB", or whatever the choice term of... |  The Screenwriter's Legal GuideBest Price: $18.00 Great book detailing the ins and outs of entertainment scriptwriting contracts and negotiations.... |  Screenwriting Updated: New (and Conventional) Ways of Writing for the ScreenBest Price: $12.71 I've read several screenwriting books recently and I must say, this is easily the most overly... |  Robert Bresson (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs)Best Price: $16.95 My personal hero of the aforementioned European art-movie genre -- Robert Bresson -- is the... |
 Star Trek, the Next Generation Sketchbook: The Movies, Generations & First ContactBest Price: $29.35 ... of the behind-the-scenes design, artwork, and storyboarding for the first two Next... |  Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White ManBest Price: $0.01 Yeah, the title for this book could have been better. However, it does get your attention. I... |  The Score: Interviews With Film ComposersBest Price: $19.95 I'd rather watch TV, there's not much of a difference. This book is as much a commentary on... |  Film Art: An IntroductionBest Price: $29.90 After spending 3 years as a film major, I was cornered into the Intro to Film studies class that... |  Practical DV Filmmaking, Second EditionBest Price: $18.59 I paid for overnight shipping and did not recieve the product for 3-4 days. The product was in... |
 Television Sports Production, Fourth EditionBest Price: $40.42 Television sports production is difficult, and producing a remote sports event is arguably the... |  THe Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh: The Films of George A. RomeroPaul R. Gagne's book on George A. Romero, charts his career from it's beginnings as a kid with a... |  Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838-1952Best Price: $32.50 Though it may come as a surprise to both cinema lovers and industry professionals who believe... |  Sergio Leone: Something to Do With DeathBest Price: $29.82 Awesome reading for the die hard spaghetti western fan! |  Stanley Kubrick: Seven Films AnalyzedBest Price: $34.98 This book is meant to be a complete breakdown of the themes, styles and subject matter of some... |
 Nothing Happens: Chantal Akermans Hyperrealist EverydayBest Price: $22.89 First comprehensive study of this influential avant-garde Belgian filmmaker. A fine writer and... |  Documentary Filmmakers SpeakBest Price: $11.34 I purchased this book for my daughter in college and it arrived right on time for her class. She... |  Digital Video Editing with Final Cut Express: The Real-World Guide to Set Up and WorkflowBest Price: $28.10 I should have gone to a bookstore and looked at the books on Final Cut Express, but based on the... |  DVD Authoring with Adobe Encore DVD: A Professional Guide to Creative DVD Production and Adobe IntegrationBest Price: $24.00 My viewpoint on software books is predicated on my lack of schooling in computer software; with... |  Lourdes Portillo: The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films (Chicana Matters)Best Price: $3.24 "Like Portillo's films, this collection provides passionate critical responses that... |
 Documentary Storytelling for Video and FilmmakersBest Price: $95.97 In short, this book is a profoundly useful tool to help you develop your film's narrative... |  The Men Who Made the MoviesBest Price: $8.93 For more than 20 years, I relied on Schickel for guidance when determining which films to see;... |  John Ford: The Complete FilmsBest Price: $12.88 I was never too big a John Ford fan, just got this from the library out of curiosity, and I'm... |  Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira KurosawaBest Price: $14.00 Teruyo Nogami, "script girl" to Kurosawa-as of this writing is still alive-and is one... |  Napoleon Dynamite: Final Shooting ScriptBest Price: $1.90 A true twenty-first-century hero, Napoleon Dynamite is awesome at drawing ligers, hunting... |
 The Art of Superman ReturnsBest Price: $7.99 One of the best cross-promotional items I've seen based on the new Superman Returns film is... |  Picture Yourself Directing a Movie: Step-by-Step Instruction for Short Films, Documentaries, and More (Picture Yourself)Best Price: $18.99 If you've always wanted to make a movie but are not sure how to begin, "Picture Yourself... |  The Art of Voice Acting: The Craft and Business of Performing for Voice-Over, Second EditionBest Price: $20.00 James Alburger wrote this book some years ago. In fact, he's on his 3rd edition! And this book... |  Extreme DV at Used-Car Prices: How to Write, Direct, Shoot, Edit, and Produce a Digital Video Feature for LessThan $3,000Best Price: $2.55 I was excited about this book but then when I got it and read the first few pages, I was... |  Jonathan Demme: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)Best Price: $14.96 The films of Jonathan Demme (b. 1944) reflect his ebullient personality and are often infused... |
 The Dream Team: The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks: Lessons from the New HollywoodBest Price: $1.99 Almost 13 years ago, three of the most talented and most powerful people in Hollywood who also... |  Raindance Producers' Lab Lo-To-No Budget FilmmakingBest Price: $33.13 Excellent step-by-step breakdown. Also, really cool recipe for fake blood and theatrical wounds.... |  Beat Takeshi Vs. Takeshi KitanoBest Price: $11.99 Casio Abe, Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano (Kaya, 2003) Either Japanese film criticism is an... |  Movie Sets 101: The Definitive Survivor's GuideBest Price: $14.36 Movie Sets 101: The Definitive Survivor's Guide by professional special effects and makeup... |  Digital Signage Broadcasting: Content Management and Distribution Techniques (Focal Press Media Technology Professional Series) (Focal Press Media Technology Professional Series)Best Price: $51.68 Very advisable book to easy understand the modern digital content management and distribution... |
 Federico Fellini: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)Best Price: $13.92 The films of Federico Fellini (1920-1993) deal equally with truth-tellers and pretenders,... |  Tim Burton: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)Best Price: $13.40 While the interviews are really interesting and personal, I was surpriced that this director's... |  Youssef Chahine:Best Price: $22.95 A film maker of truly international renown and the recipient of the Cannes Film Festival's... |  Total Directing: Integrating Camera and Performance in Film and TelevisionBest Price: $19.77 Total Directing is a very thorough book on directing narrative (for both film and television)... |  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Portrait of Ang Lee's Epic FilmBest Price: $2.74 This is a GREAT book... It includes the screenplay of the film, which, is nice to read once in... |
 Frank Capra: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)Best Price: $20.71 Few Hollywood directors had a higher profile in the 1930s than Frank Capra (1897Ð1991). He... |  Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad TasteBest Price: $6.99 This book was without a doubt the funniest book I've ever read. Naturally, readers familiar with... |  There's No Business Like Soul Business: A Spiritual Path to Enlightened Screenwriting, Filmmaking, and the Performing ArtsBest Price: $12.00 Derek Rydall talks about the ideas in his book on my spiritual entertainment talk show in a way... |  Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front PicturesBest Price: $14.97 This is perhaps the most original book written about Val Lewton's famous horror movies in... |  Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Trilogy (Cambridge Film Handbooks)Best Price: $6.00 I find it striking that there are so many dumb people in the world. Like the person who wrote... |
 Bluescreen Compositing (DV Expert Series) (DV Expert Series) (Dv Expert Series)Best Price: $27.97 Jackman takes us thru the steps in doing professional bluescreen usage for movies. Easy... |  Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan: But Were Afraid to Ask HitchcockBest Price: $17.81 When I was a born-feminist bookworm of 16, I was delighted by the Marquise de Merteuil. I knew... |  Woody Allen: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)Best Price: $13.67 Woody Allen (b. 1935) is one of America?s most idiosyncratic filmmakers, with an unparalleled... |  George Lucas: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)Best Price: $15.50 Wouldn't it be great for Lucas to turn his genius to an epic for our time, one that has... |  So You Wanna Be A Producer?Best Price: $18.66 Ecclestine handles his content well. He makes it very easy to digest and is very interesting. |
 Making Video Dance: A Practical IntroductionBest Price: $30.78 Since the advent of digital video technology, dance on camera has become an increasingly... |  A Critical Cinema 2: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers (Critical Cinema)Best Price: $19.50 This sequel to A Critical Cinema offers a new collection of interviews with independent... |  Film Production: The Complete Uncensored Guide to FilmmakingBest Price: $13.90 For me, this book was too general to be of any help. The best I've read so far is FROM REEL TO... | ||
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