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On directing film
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ISBN: 0140127224 067083033X 9780140127225 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York London Penguin

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"Calling on his unique perspective as playwright, screenwriter, and director of his own critically acclaimed movies like House of Games, State and Main, and Things Change, David Mamet illuminates how a film comes to be. He looks at every aspect of directing-from script to cutting room-to show the many tasks directors undertake in reaching their prime objective: presenting a story that will be understood by the audience and has the power to be both surprising and inevitable at the same time. Based on a series of classes Mamet taught at Columbia University's film school, On Directing Film will be indispensible not only to students but to anyone interested in an overview of the craft of filmmaking."

Directing single camera drama
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ISBN: 0240514785 Year: 2002 Publisher: London Focal Press


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The Director and Directing : Craft, Process and Aesthetic in Contemporary Theatre
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ISBN: 1137407670 1137407662 Year: 2019 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book critically assesses the artistry of contemporary directors. Its discussion includes the work of Declan Donnellan, Thomas Ostermeier, Deborah Warner, Simon Stone and Krzysztof Warlikowski. Alongside the work of wider theorists (Patrice Pavis and Erika Fischer-Lichte), it uses neuroaesthetic theory (Semir Zeki) and cognitive and creative process models to offer an original means to discuss the performance event, emotion, brain structures and concepts, and the actor’s body in performance. It offers first-hand observation of rehearsals led by Katie Mitchell, Ivo van Hove, Carrie Cracknell and the Steppenwolf Theatre. It also explores devising in relation to the work of Simon McBurney and contemporary groups, and scenography in relation to the work of Dmitry Krymov, Robert Wilson and Robert Lepage. The Director and Directing argues that the director creates a type of knowledge, ‘reward’ and ‘resonant experience’ (G. Gabrielle Starr) through instinctive and expert choices.


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Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret : The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies
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ISBN: 9780231182409 9780231182416 9780231544153 0231544154 0231182406 0231182414 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press,

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In an era when many businesses have come under scrutiny for their environmental impact, the film industry has for the most part escaped criticism and regulation. Its practices are more diffuse; its final product, less tangible; and Hollywood has adopted public-relations strategies that portray it as environmentally conscious. In Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret, Hunter Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective, arguing that how we make and consume films has serious ecological consequences.Bringing together environmental humanities, science communication, and social ethics, Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret is a pathbreaking consideration of the film industry's environmental impact that examines how our cultural prioritization of spectacle has distracted us from its material consequences and natural-resource use. Vaughan examines the environmental effects of filmmaking from Hollywood classics to the digital era, considering how popular screen media shapes and reflects our understanding of the natural world. He recounts the production histories of major blockbusters-Gone with the Wind, Singin' in the Rain, Twister, and Avatar-situating them in the contexts of the development of the film industry, popular environmentalism, and the proliferation of digital technologies. Emphasizing the materiality of media, Vaughan interweaves details of the hidden environmental consequences of specific filmmaking practices, from water use to server farms, within a larger critical portrait of social perceptions and valuations of the natural world.


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Producing British Television Drama : Local Production in a Global Era
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ISBN: 1137578750 1137578742 Year: 2019 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book presents a compelling case for a paradigmatic shift in the analysis of television drama production that recentres questions of power, control and sustainability. Television drama production has become an increasingly lucrative global export business as drama as a form enjoys increased prestige. However, this book argues that the growing emphasis on international markets and global players such as Netflix and Amazon Prime neglects the realities of commissioning and making television drama in specific national and regional contexts. Drawing on extensive empirical research, Producing British Television Drama demonstrates the centrality of public service broadcasters in serving audiences and sustaining the commercial independent sector in a digital age. It attends closely to three elements—the role of place in the production of content; the experiences of those working in the sector; and the interventions from cultural intermediaries in articulating and ascribing value to television drama. With chapters examining the evolution of British TV drama, as well as what might be in store in its future, this book offers invaluable insights into the UK as a major supplier of and market for television drama.


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The sense of film narration
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ISBN: 9780748640720 074864072X 9780748678396 0748678395 9780748678419 0748678417 9781299804142 1299804144 Year: 2013 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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This book investigates the sensuous qualities of narration in the feature-length fiction film. Sensuous narration takes place when details of visual (or aural) texture are foregrounded for storytelling purposes. For example, the image becomes 'soft' in order to signal the representation of a character's memory; a 'scratchy' version of a song plays on the soundtrack in order to shape the viewer's understanding of the images it accompanies. In these cases, image and sound are associated with tactile properties (softness and scratchiness).The book provides a comprehensive account of existing work

The art of technique : an aesthetic approach to film and video production
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ISBN: 0205142486 9780205142484 Year: 1996 Publisher: Boston Allyn & Bacon

Film voices : interviews from Post Script
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ISBN: 0791484750 1423739981 9781423739982 0791461556 9780791461556 0791461564 9780791461563 9780791484753 9780791484753 Year: 2004 Publisher: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press,

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Interviews with prominent filmmakers, actors, and others on the art, craft, and business of moviemaking.


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Business plans for filmmakers
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ISBN: 1280697121 9786613674081 080938583X 9780809385836 9781280697128 9780809329946 0809329948 6613674087 Year: 2010 Publisher: Carbondale [Ill.] : Southern Illinois University Press,


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Film and risk
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ISBN: 0814336116 9780814336113 9780814334638 0814334636 Year: 2012 Publisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press,

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