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Jim Hemphill’s The Art and Craft of TV Directing reassesses the old adage that TV is a “writer’s medium," urging…
Our summertime poolside page-turners include a deep-focused guide to lenses and two anthologies on small- screen art and craft
Dive into our summertime poolside page-turners with this deep-focused guide to lenses.
Lawrence Ribeiro’s Action Realism: The Art of Action goes beyond its scope as a technical production manual to become a…
In Liberating Hollywood, Maya Montañez Smukler chronicles an era in which pant legs were wide and the gender gap even…
In Shoot From the Heart, Diane Bell presents her unconventional path as a viable option for aspiring moviemakers to get…
Nayman's The Coen Brothers presents a full-scale analysis of their 17 films, with each chapter dedicated to a different film.
In this exploration of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s filmography, Susan Napier paints a portrait of the world this renowned moviemaker…
Professor Beatriz Peña-Acuña's Understanding Steven Spielberg offers an academic dissection of the famed director’s filmography and exemplary workmanship.
Karina Longworth's Seduction is not the incurious paean to yet another over-glorified lothario one might expect from a "famous dead…
Fans of Morris—best known for his 1988 The Thin Blue Line, which earned him a MacArthur Genius Grant, helped to…
Space Odyssey: Beautiful New Book Examines Two Geniuses’ Creative Relationship Operating At Its Peak
What could have easily been a dry history of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey is instead an anecdotal…
In Like Brothers, Mark and Jay Duplass' new memoir, they explore their fraternal roots, giving an honest and earnest answer…
Jeffrey Michael Bays interviews The Bourne Identity editor Saar Klein about crafting suspense in his new book Suspense with a…
Paul Dudbridge’s digestible Shooting Better Movies: The Student Filmmakers’ Guide compiles an easy to reference guide for the neophyte filmmaker.
Anand Pandian's Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation is a book that begins with a wonderment about life itself as…
“It’s an Oliver Stone movie about Oliver Stone, but in the form of a book.” That’s how Matt Zoller Seitz…
Bethany Rooney and Mary Lou Belli’s Directors Tell the Story joins other classics as one of the handful of essential…
Mark A. Vieira’s Into The Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950 offers an unprecedented portal into Hollywood’s golden…
Preparing for Takeoff is a one-stop master class on pre-production by seasoned moviemaker Arthur Vincie—300 pages of no-nonsense practical advice…
Admirers of Taxi Driver can now revisit its pleasures (and traumas) in a Taschen book featuring on-set photographs by photojournalist…