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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media
Bruce Block · 312 pages
This book explains the relationship between the structure of a story and the structure of the visuals that can be created to support the story. This relationship occurs in movies, television shows, computer games, and advertising. The book clearly describes the visual tools that any director, cinematographer, designer, storyboard artist or conceptual artist can use to enhance their work and creat
An Unsuitable Boy
Karan Johar, Poonam Saxena · 352 pages
xiii, 216 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Robert Evans · 480 pages
An autobiographical account of the life and times of Robert Evans, Hollywood producer who worked on Love Story, Rosemary's Baby, The Godfather, Marathon Man, Chinatown The Cottonwood Club and many other films.
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Robert McKee · 466 pages
For the first time in book form, Robert McKee's Story reveals the award-winning methods of the man universally regarded as the world's premier screenwriting teacher. For more than 17 years, Robert McKee's students have been taking Hollywood's top honors. His Story Structure seminar is the ultimate class for screenwriters and filmmakers, playing to packed auditoriums across the world and boasting m
Make Your Own Damn Movie!: Secrets of a Renegade Director
Lloyd Kaufman, Adam Jahnke, Trent Haaga · 329 pages
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
Stephen Rebello · 224 pages
Shares a behind the scenes look at how "Psycho" was made, despite studio opposition, and includes interviews with the cast and crew.
With Nails: The Film Diaries Of Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant · 320 pages
The Lord of the Rings: Official Movie Guide
Brian Sibley · 120 pages
The mythos, landscapes and characters that Tolkien created are nothing short of spectacular, and it has taken four decades for cinema technology to reach the necessary level of sophistication to bring them to life. Now, Peter Jackson has accomplished the extraordinary feat of making three motion pictures simultaneously to capture Tolkien's vision in its entirety. For the past several years, Peter
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
Syd Field · 246 pages
One of the seminal and much respected texts in the field of screenwriting by one of the greats. *Screenplay* has been revised and updated many times and it remains a number one bestseller on Amazon in 2016, years after it was first published. The book contains guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints elements
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Robert Rodriguez · 294 pages
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Chronicles I: Art & Design
Daniel Falconer · 198 pages
A celebration of Peter Jackson's creative vision, packed with concept artwork and development paintings from his film The hobbit: an unexpected journey. Each artist provides detailed and entertaining commentary that reveals the story behind the vision.
James Cameron's Titanic
Ed W. Marsh, Douglas Kirkland, James Cameron · 192 pages
Describes the monumental efforts that went into the creation of the major motion picture that re-created the final voyage of the "ship of dreams," otherwise known as the Titanic.
I Want It Now! a Memoir of Life on the Set of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Julie Dawn Cole · 250 pages
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
Werner Herzog · 306 pages
One of the most revered filmmakers of our time, Werner Herzog wrote this diary during the making of Fitzcarraldo, the lavish 1982 film that tells the story of a would-be rubber baron who pulls a steamship over a hill in the Amazon jungle in order to access a rich rubber territory. Later, Herzog spoke of his difficulties when making the film, including casting problems, reshoots, language barriers,
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell · 279 pages
"In 2003, an independent film called The Room--starring and written, produced, directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit of indeterminate age and origin named Tommy Wiseau--made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as "like getting stabbed in the head," the six-million-dollar film earned a grand total of $1800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Ten years
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Peter Biskind · 506 pages
"Easy Riders, Raging Bulls vividly chronicles the exuberance and excess of the times: the startling success of Easy Rider and the equally alarming circumstances under which it was made, with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry between costars Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda dominating the set; how a small production company named BBS became the guiding spirit of the youth rebellion in Hollywood and ho
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum - How We Made Movie Magic
Andy Serkis · 112 pages
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
Mark Harris · 511 pages
Traces the World War II experiences of five legendary directors including John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra and George Stevens to assess the transformative impact of the war and period beliefs on Hollywood. By the author of Pictures at a Revolution.
Hitchcock
François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott · 311 pages
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
Christopher Vogler · 315 pages