What an Art Director Does

What an Art Director Does
Author: Ward Preston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1994
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781879505186

A wealth of information from Preston's experiences in the film industry.

Film Directors and Emotion

Film Directors and Emotion
Author: Darragh Greene
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2020-04-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476668892

Cinema is an affective medium. Films move us to feel wonder, joy, and love as well as fear, anger, and hatred. Today, we are living through a new age of sensibility when emotion is given priority over reason. Yet, there is a counter-cultural current in contemporary American cinema that offers a more nuanced treatment of emotion. Both aesthetically and eidetically, this new cinema of affect allows viewers to make up their own minds about what they feel and think. This book focuses on key films by important auteur-directors--David Fincher, Bryan Singer, Christopher Nolan, Kathryn Bigelow, Richard Linklater, Barry Jenkins, Greta Gerwig, and Pete Docter--who are to the forefront of this new cinema. It explores how they anatomize affect and how it functions in the creation or degradation of character and society.

Directing the Film

Directing the Film
Author: Eric Sherman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1988
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Film-making wisdom and a fascinating mine of film lore make this a priceless resource for students, aspiring film professionals, and film fans.

The Movie Directors Story

The Movie Directors Story
Author: Joel Waldo Finler
Publisher: Crescent
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1985
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780517480793

An account of 140 careers, ranging from studio work-horse to genius, illustrated with photographs of the directors themselves as well as scenes from their most characteristic movies.

Robert Wise

Robert Wise
Author: Joe Jordan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-04-05
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 9780692854471

Joe Jordan's book offers commentary on every film directed by Robert Wise (The Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, and many more). Includes over twenty interviews and also features production stills.

Who the Devil Made It

Who the Devil Made It
Author: Peter Bogdanovich
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 1127
Release: 2012-05-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0307817458

“A must have for any film nut.”—Details Peter Bogdanovich, award-winning director, screenwriter, actor and critic, interviews 16 legendary directors over a 15-year period. Their richly illuminating conversations combine to make this a riveting chronicle of Hollywood and picture making. Join him in conversations with: Robert Aldrich • George Cukor • Allan Dwan • Howard Hanks • Alfred Hitchcock • Chuck Jones • Fritz Lang • Joseph H. Lewis • Sidney Lumet • Leo McCarey • Otto Preminger • Don Siegel • Josef von Sternberg • Frank Tashlin • Edgar G. Ulmer • Raoul Walsh NOTE: This edition does not include photographs. Praise for Who the Devil Made It “Illuminating . . . These were (and sometimes are: a few yet breathe) men rooted in history as much as in Hollywood. Their collected memories make the past look fearfully rich beside a present that is poverty-stricken in everything except money.”—The New Yorker “Bogdanovich is one of America’s finest writers on the cinema. . . . Thank goodness [his] Who the Devil Made It has come along to remind us that films and writing about film were, at one time, focused on the work and not strictly on the bottom line.”—The Boston Globe “A treasure trove on the craft of directing.”—Newsday “Monumental . . . The directors’ reminiscences about technique, working methods, sources of ideas, and relationships with actors and studios are thoroughly entertaining.”—Publishers Weekly “A fine achievement that helps illuminate the art and craft of some remarkable directors . . . There are plenty of revealing anecdotes.”—Kirkus Reviews

A Light in the Dark

A Light in the Dark
Author: David Thomson
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0593318153

From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film--an essential work on the preeminent, indispensable movie directors and the ways in which their work has forged, and continues to forge, the landscape of modern film. Directors operate behind the scenes, managing actors, establishing a cohesive creative vision, at times literally guiding our eyes with the eye of the camera. But we are often so dazzled by the visions on-screen that it is easy to forget the individual who is off-screen orchestrating the entire production--to say nothing of their having marshaled a script, a studio, and other people's money. David Thomson, in his usual brilliantly insightful way, shines a light on the visionary directors who have shaped modern cinema and, through their work, studies the very nature of film direction. With his customary candor about his own delights and disappointments, Thomson analyzes both landmark works and forgotten films from classic directors such as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir, and Jean-Luc Godard, as well as contemporary powerhouses such as Jane Campion, Spike Lee, and Quentin Tarantino. He shrewdly interrogates their professional legacies and influence in the industry, while simultaneously assessing the critical impact of an artist's personal life on his or her work. He explores the male directors' dominance of the past, and describes how diversity can change the landscape. Judicious, vivid, and witty, A Light in the Dark is yet another required Thomson text for every movie lover's shelf.

Star Trek

Star Trek
Author: Gene Roddenberry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2000-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0743412087

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Trek: The Motion Picture with this classic movie novelization written by legendary Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry! The original five-year mission of the Starship Enterprise to explore strange new worlds and to seek out new life and new civilizations has ended. Now James T. Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy, and the rest of the crew of the Enterprise have separated to follow their own career paths and different lives. But now, an overwhelming alien threat—one that is ignoring all attempts at communication and annihilating all opposition in its path—is on a collision course with Earth, the very heart of the United Federation of Planets. And the only vessel that Starfleet can send in time to intercept this menace is a refitted Enterprise, with her old crew heeding the call to once again boldly go where no one has gone before….

Motion Picture Directing: The Facts and Theories of the Newest Art

Motion Picture Directing: The Facts and Theories of the Newest Art
Author: Peter Milne
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2021-05-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A motion picture is an incredibly effective medium for delivering drama, specifically in the evocation of emotion. This art is highly complicated, requiring contributions from nearly all the other arts and countless technical skills. Appearing at the end of the 19th century, this new art form became one of the most famous and influential media of the 20th century and after. 'Motion Picture Directing' is a helpful piece by American screenwriter Peter Milne to reduce the complexity of this art by making several things easy to understand. The author writes wonderfully about the developments, the abilities, characteristics, and essential qualities after spending nearly ten years in the motion picture industry as a critic and writer. He gives valuable insights into the various methods and techniques that were used during that time in the field. It proves helpful to budding directors and the skilled ones as an introduction to the history of directing.

Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater
Author: David T. Johnson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2012-03-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0252036921

This title provides an incisive analysis of popular American filmmaker, Richard Linklater.