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Media Production Agreements : A User's Guide for Film and Programme Makers (Blueprint)  A reader from Los Angeles writes: A valuable, must have book for all those in the film biz. This book has saved me thousands in legal fees. The book explains most contracts that are used in the film and tv business and can really help. I think that this book should be a standard issue to producers out trying to make movies.

Actors Turned Directors : On Eliciting the Best Performance from an Actor and Other Secrets of Successful Directing

Jon Stevens / Paperback / 1997
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AFMA Member Profile - Aquisition, Production & Development Practices

William A. Anderson / Paperback / 1999
$95.00

 

 

The Art of Alfred Hitchcock : Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures

Donald Spoto / Paperback / 1992
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The Art of Technique : An Aesthetic Approach to Film and Video Production

John S. Douglass, Glenn P. Harnden (Contributor) / Paperback / 1996
$43.25

 

 

The Art of the Storyboard: Storyboarding for Film, TV, and Animation

John Hart / Paperback / 1999
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Basic Studio Directing (Media Manuals Series)

Rod Fairweather / Paperback / 1998
$29.95

 

 

The Beginning Filmaker's Guide to a Successful First Film

Renee Harmon, et al / Paperback / 1997
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The Beginning Filmmaker's Guide to Directing

Renee Harmon / Hardcover / 1992
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Best Seat in the House : A Basketball Memoir

Spike Lee, Ralph Wiley (Contributor) / Hardcover / 1997
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Breaking Through, Selling Out, Dropping Dead

William Bayer / Paperback / 1989
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A Bug's Life : The Art and Making of an Epic of Miniature Proportions

Jeff Kurtti / Hardcover / 1998
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Byron Haskin : Interview by Joe Adamson (Directors Guild of America Series, 1)

Byron Haskin, Joe Adamson (Photographer) / Hardcover / 1984
$29.00

 

 

The Casablanca Man : The Cinema of Michael Curtiz

James C. Robertson / Hardcover / 1993
$65.00

 

 

Child of Paradise : Marcel Carne and the Golden Age of French Cinema

Edward Baron Turk / Hardcover / 1989
$55.50

 

 

Christmas in July : The Life and Art of Preston Sturges

Diane Jacobs / Hardcover / 1992
$45.00

 

 

Cinema History of Burt Lancaster

David Fury / Hardcover / 1989
$39.95

 

 

Cinema, Censorship, and the State : The Writings of Nagisa Oshima, 1956-1978 (October Book)

Nagisa Oshima, et al / Hardcover / 1992
$42.50

 

 

The Complete Film Production Handbook

Eve Light Honthaner / Paperback / 1996
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Correspondence, 1945-1984

Francois Truffaut, et al / Hardcover / 1990
$50.00

 

 

David Lean and His Films

Alain Silver, James Ursini (Contributor) / Paperback / 1992
$15.95

 

 

David Lynch (Twayne's Filmmakers)

Kenneth C. Kaleta / Hardcover / 1992
$33.00

 

 

Directing 101

Ernest Pintoff / Paperback / 1999
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Directing : Film Techniques and Aesthetics

Michael P. Rabiger / Paperback / 1996
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Directing Actors : Creating Memorable Performances for Film and Television

Judith Weston / Paperback / 1996
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Directing Single Camera Drama

Mike Crisp / Paperback / 1998
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Directing Television and Film (Wadsworth Series in Television and Film)

Alan A. Armer / Hardcover / 1991
$51.95

 

 

Directing the Film : Film Directors on Their Art

Eric Sherman / Paperback / 1988
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Directing Your Directing Career : A Support Book and Agent Guide for Directors

K Callan / Paperback / 1994
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The Director's Journey : The Creative Collaboration Between Directors, Writers and Actors

Mark W. Travis / Paperback / 1997
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Director's Method for Film and Television

Ron Richards / Paperback / 1992
$39.95

 

 

The Early Film Criticism of Francois Truffaut

Francois Truffaut, et al / Hardcover / 1993
$35.00

 

 

Eisenstein, Cinema, and History

James Goodwin / Hardcover / 1993
$55.50

 

 

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)

Slavoj Zizek(Editor) / Hardcover / 1996
$60.00

 

 

Exiles in Hollywood : Major European Film Directors in America

Gene D. Phillips / Hardcover / 1998
$42.50

 

 

Eye on the World : Conversations With International Filmmakers

Judy Stone / Paperback / 1997
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Film Budgeting : Or, How Much It Will Cost to Shoot Your Movie?

Ralph S. Singleton, et al / Paperback / 1996
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Film Directing : Killer Style & Cutting Edge Technique

Renee Hormon, Renee Harmon / Paperback / 1997
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Film Directing Shot by Shot : Visualizing from Concept to Screen

Steven D. Katz / Paperback / 1991
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Film Directing, Cinematic Motion : A Workshop for Staging Scenes

Steven D. Katz / Paperback / 1998
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Film Directors : A Complete Guide (Film Directors : A Complete Guide, 14th Ed)

Michael Singer(Editor) / Paperback / 1999
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Film Fatales : Independent Women Directors

Judith M. Redding, Victoria Brownworth (Contributor) / Paperback / 1997
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Film Producing : Low Budget Films That Sell

Renee Harmon / Paperback / 1989
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Film Production

Steven Bernstein / Paperback / 1994
$42.95

 

 

Film Production : The Complete Uncensored Guide to Filmmaking

Greg Merritt / Paperback / 1998
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Film Production Management

Bastian Cleve / Paperback / 1994
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Film Production Management

Bastian Cleve / Paperback / 1999
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The Filmmaker's Handbook : A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age

Steven Ascher, et al / Paperback / 1999
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Filmmaking on the Fringe : The Good, the Bad and the Deviant Directors

Maitland McDonagh / Paperback / 1995
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The Films of Carol Reed

Robert F. Moss / Hardcover / 1987
$45.50

 

 

From Script to Screen : The Collaborative Art of Filmmaking

Linda Seger, Edward Jay Whetmore (Contributor) / Paperback / 1994
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