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A Career Handbook for TV & Radio & Film & Video & Interactive Media
This unique guide answers a multitude of questions, including ... How do I choose a course that will help me? What are the jobs? How do I get useful work experience? What is it like to be a freelancer?…
A Life in Movies
This first volume of Michael Powell’s memoirs ranges from his boyhood and his first job in film, to his work with legendary film makers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Korda, and the pinnacle of his…
A Siegel film - An Autobiography
Don Siegel was one of Hollywood’s most controversial directors. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is one of the very few acknowledged science-fiction classics, and ‘Dirty Harry’ Callahan,…
Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema
“This is the first book that attempts to link his work to trends and issues that cut across national boundaries and transcend immediate historical circumstances. Extremely well written, well considered,…
Alan J. Pakula - His Films and His Life
The first biography of the legendary film maker includes interviews with Harrison Ford, Lauren Bacall, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Kevin Kline, Candice Bergen, Donald Sutherland, and over…
An Autobiography of British Cinema
This volume of first-hand reminiscences celebrating 50 years of British filmmaking, records the Golden Age of British Cinema as remembered by 180 great and best-loved names of the British cinema Those…
Billy Wilder in Hollywood
“A fascinating montage of a man whose talents and quirks, virtues and faults, are endlessly engrossing. Electrifying opinions of those with whom he has worked and the original casting choices…
Chinese Box & A Film-maker’s Diary
The film “Chinese Box”, starring Jeremy Irons and Gong Li, portrays a cross-cultural love story set against the run-up to the hand-over of Hong Kong, and filmed on the spot as it happened.…
David Lean
The life and its biographer provide a landmark work on the cinema. Emerging from a childhood of nearly Dickensian darkness, David Lean found his great success as a director of the appropriately titled…
De Toth on de Toth - Putting the Drama in front of the Camera
The Hollywood director Andre de Toth provides an account of his film work. The cast of characters includes his wife, Veronica Lake, as well as stars such as Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven,…
Don’t Tell Me - Show Me - Directors Talk About Acting
A collection of informal interviews with Australian directors of stage, film, and TV, talking about actors and acting This is not a "how to act" book, nor is it a series of profiles of the directors, but…
Emeric Pressburger - The Life and Death of a Screenwriter
A Hungarian Jew who lived and worked in half a dozen European countries before arriving in Britain in 1935, Pressburger’s reputation rests on the series of strikingly original films he made in collaboration…
Emotion Pictures
In these essays on the cinema, the author documents the obsessions leading to “Paris, Texas” and beyond. He discusses rock and roll in the movies, avant-garde film, questions of German identity…
Fassbinder - The Life and Work of a Provocative Genius
It was Rainer Werner Fassbinder who helped put New German Cinema on the international map in the 1970s. He was an artist who achieved that rare synthesis of radical subjectivity and wide audience appeal;…
Fellini on Fellini
As a four-times winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Federico Fellini bestrides the history of Italian cinema. Over the course of his career he created a body of work - "La Strada", "La Dolce Vita",…
Frank Capra - The Catastrophe of Success
Based on extensive interviews with Frank Capra himself, this is a biography of the director of films such as “It Happened One Night”, “Mr Deeds Goes to Town” and “It’s…
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis - Cinematic Views of Technology & Fear
A collection of Essays ranging from early seminal works to recent fresh interpretations of this expressionist classic - 19 b/w illustrations - 224 pages
From Script to Screen - The Collaborative Art of Filmmaking
What goes into the making of Hollywood’s greatest motion pictures? Join the authors as they examine recent screenplays such as Thelma & Lousie, Witness and A Beautiful Mind on their perilous…
Hands On - A Practical Guide to Production and Technologies in Film & TV and New Media
This book is written specifically for the Australian industry. It is an essential tool that will empower film-makers to understand the latest technology and save them time and money throughout the production…
International Film Guide 2004 - The Ultimate Annual Review of World Cinema
Designed for film lovers, students, critics, producers, directors and festival programmers, this annual review of world cinema offers reports from 75 countries bringing readers up to date on the latest…
