The Filmmaking Library
A curated library of books on acting, directing, screenwriting and film history, browsable by category with details for every title.
Titles
- An Actor Prepares, Konstantin Stanislavsky (Acting & Performance)
- Respect for acting, Uta Hagen (Acting & Performance)
- A challenge for the actor, Uta Hagen (Acting & Performance)
- Sanford Meisner on acting, Sanford Meisner (Acting & Performance)
- Audition, Michael Shurtleff (Acting & Performance)
- True and False, David Mamet (Acting & Performance)
- The power of the actor, Ivana Chubbuck (Acting & Performance)
- Acting for the camera, Tony Barr (Acting & Performance)
- Impro, Keith Johnstone (Acting & Performance)
- The actor's life, Jenna Fischer (Acting & Performance)
- Year of the King, Antony Sher (Acting & Performance)
- On acting, Laurence Olivier (Acting & Performance)
- Acting in film, Michael Caine (Acting & Performance)
- Building a Character, Konstantin Stanislavsky (Acting & Performance)
- The actor's art and craft, William Esper (Acting & Performance)
- Me. Stories of My Life, Katharine Hepburn (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Born standing up, Steve Martin (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Bossypants, Tina Fey (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Yes Please, Amy Poehler (Biographies & Memoirs)
- The Kid Stays in the Picture, Robert Evans (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Spike Lee, Kaleem Aftab (Biographies & Memoirs)
- My Last Sigh Vintage, Luis Buñuel (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Laterna magica, Ingmar Bergman (Biographies & Memoirs)
- My autobiography, Charlie Chaplin (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Life itself, Roger Ebert (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Apropos of Nothing, Woody Allen (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Sonny Boy, Al Pacino (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Down the rabbit hole, Holly Madison (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Room to Dream, David Lynch, Kristine McKenna (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Catch Me If You Can, Frank Abagnale (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Blue nights, Joan Didion (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Story, Robert McKee (Screenwriting)
- Save the cat!, Blake Snyder (Screenwriting)
- Screenplay, Syd Field (Screenwriting)
- The screenwriter's bible, David Trottier (Screenwriting)
- Adventures in the screen trade, William Goldman (Screenwriting)
- Which lie did I tell?, William Goldman (Screenwriting)
- The anatomy of story, John Truby (Screenwriting)
- Writing screenplays that sell, Michael Hauge (Screenwriting)
- Making a good script great, Linda Seger (Screenwriting)
- The writer's journey, Christopher Vogler (Screenwriting)
- The Idea, Erik Bork (Screenwriting)
- Your Screenplay Sucks!, William M Akers (Screenwriting)
- Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay, Andrew Horton (Screenwriting)
- The tools of screenwriting, Howard, David (Screenwriting)
- Alternative scriptwriting, Ken Dancyger, Jeff Rush (Screenwriting)
- Crafty screenwriting, Alex Epstein (Screenwriting)
- How not to write a screenplay, Denny Martin Flinn (Screenwriting)
- Writing Movies for Fun and Profit, Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant (Screenwriting)
- On Writing, Stephen King (Screenwriting)
- The Screenwriter's Workbook, Syd Field (Screenwriting)
- Poetics, Aristotle (Screenwriting)
- Dialogue, Robert McKee (Screenwriting)
- Character, Robert Mckee (Screenwriting)
- On directing film, David Mamet (Directing)
- Directing, Michael Rabiger (Directing)
- Making movies, Sidney Lumet (Directing)
- Sculpting in Time, Andrey Tarkovsky (Directing)
- Notes on the Cinematographer (Sun and Moon Classics), Robert Bresson (Directing)
- Directing Actors, Judith Weston (Directing)
- The film director's intuition, Judith Weston (Directing)
- Rebel Without a Crew, Robert Rodriguez (Directing)
- Film directing shot by shot, Steven D. Katz (Directing)
- Film Directing, Cinematic Motion, Steven D. Katz (Directing)
- The filmmaker's handbook, Steven Ascher, Edward Pincus (Directing)
- Hitchcock, François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock (Directing)
- Gama no abura, Akira Kurosawa (Directing)
- Herzog on Herzog, Herzog, Werner (Directing)
- Lynch on Lynch, Chris Rodley (Directing)
- Scorsese on Scorsese, Martin Scorsese, David Thompson (Directing)
- Sidney Lumet, Joanna E. Rapf (Directing)
- Directing the documentary, Michael Rabiger (Directing)
- Setting up your shots, Jeremy Vineyard (Directing)
- The Visual Story, Bruce Block (Directing)
- Grammar of the shot, Christopher J. Bowen (Directing)
- Master shots, volume 2, Christopher Kenworthy (Directing)
- Painting with light, Alton, John. (Cinematography)
- Cinematography : Theory and Practice, Blain Brown (Cinematography)
- Masters of light, Dennis Schaefer, Larry Salvato (Cinematography)
- The five C's of cinematography, Joseph V. Mascelli (Cinematography)
- Motion Picture and Video Lighting, Blain Brown (Cinematography)
- Set lighting technician's handbook, Harry C. Box (Cinematography)
- The filmmaker's eye, Gustavo Mercado (Cinematography)
- Every frame a Rembrandt, Andrew Laszlo (Cinematography)
- Cinematography, J. Kris Malkiewicz, Kris Malkiewicz (Cinematography)
- Film lighting, Kris Malkiewicz (Cinematography)
- Light-- science and magic, Fil Hunter, Steven Biver (Cinematography)
- The camera assistant's manual, David E. Elkins (Cinematography)
- Matters of Light & Depth, Ross Lowell (Cinematography)
- Vittorio Storaro: Writing with Light: Volume 1, Vittorio Storaro (Cinematography)
- The art and technique of digital color correction, Steve Hullfish (Cinematography)
- Color correction handbook, Alexis Van Hurkman (Cinematography)
- In the blink of an eye, Walter Murch (Editing)
- The Conversations, Michael Ondaatje (Editing)
- On film editing, Edward Dmytryk (Editing)
- The technique of film and video editing, Ken Dancyger (Editing)
- First Cut, Gabriella Oldham (Editing)
- Cut to the chase, Sam O'Steen (Editing)
- Make the cut, Lori Jane Coleman (Editing)
- The healthy edit, John Rosenberg (Editing)
- The Eye is Quicker: Film Editing, Richard D. Pepperman (Editing)
- Behind the seen, Charles Koppelman (Editing)
- The film editing room handbook, Norman Hollyn (Editing)
- The complete film production handbook, Eve Light Honthaner (Producing & Business)
- Down and dirty pictures, Peter Biskind (Producing & Business)
- The Hollywood standard, Riley, Christopher (Producing & Business)
- Film production management 101, Deborah S. Patz (Producing & Business)
- Producer to producer, Maureen A. Ryan (Producing & Business)
- The independent film producer's survival guide, J. Gunnar Erickson (Producing & Business)
- Shooting to kill, Christine Vachon, David Edelstein (Producing & Business)
- The biz, Schuyler M. Moore (Producing & Business)
- Filmmaking for dummies, Bryan Michael Stoller (Producing & Business)
- What they don't teach you at film school, Camille Landau (Producing & Business)
- Film finance handbook, Adam P. Davies, Nic Wistreich (Producing & Business)
- Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul, The Film Collaborative, Jon Reiss (Producing & Business)
- Think Outside The Box Office The Ultimate Guide To Film Distribution In The Digital Era, Jon Reiss (Producing & Business)
- Hollywood Economics, Arthur S. De Vany (Producing & Business)
- The big picture, Edward Jay Epstein (Producing & Business)
- Powerhouse, James A. Miller (Producing & Business)
- Sound Design, David Sonnenschein (Sound & Music)
- The sound effects bible, Ric Viers (Sound & Music)
- Sound for film and television, Tomlinson Holman (Sound & Music)
- Practical art of motion picture sound, David Lewis Yewdall (Sound & Music)
- The location sound bible, Ric Viers (Sound & Music)
- On the Track, Fred Karlin (Sound & Music)
- Complete guide to film scoring, Davis, Richard (Sound & Music)
- Hearing Film, Anahid Kassabian (Sound & Music)
- The foley grail, Vanessa Theme Ament (Sound & Music)
- Dialogue editing for motion pictures, John Purcell (Sound & Music)
- The filmmaker's guide to production design, Vincent LoBrutto (Production Design & Costume)
- What an art director does, Ward Preston (Production Design & Costume)
- Costume design 101, Richard La Motte (Production Design & Costume)
- Film style and technology, Barry Salt (Production Design & Costume)
- By design, Vincent LoBrutto (Production Design & Costume)
- The art direction handbook for film, Michael Rizzo (Production Design & Costume)
- Production design & art direction, Peter Ettedgui (Production Design & Costume)
- Cinema by Design, Lucy Fischer (Production Design & Costume)
- The animator's survival kit, Richard Williams (Animation & VFX)
- The illusion of life, Frank Thomas Bullen, Ollie Johnston (Animation & VFX)
- Timing for animation, Harold Whitaker, John Halas (Animation & VFX)
- Character animation crash course!, Goldberg, Eric. (Animation & VFX)
- The art of 3-D computer animation and effects, Isaac Victor Kerlow (Animation & VFX)
- The VES handbook of visual effects, Jeffrey A. Okun, Susan Zwerman (Animation & VFX)
- Digital Compositing for Film and Video, Wright, Steve (Animation & VFX)
- Creating motion graphics with After Effects, Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer (Animation & VFX)
- Filmmaker's Guide to Visual Effects, Eran Dinur (Animation & VFX)
- Stop Motion, Susannah Shaw (Animation & VFX)
- Cartoon modern, Amid Amidi (Animation & VFX)
- Creativity, Inc., Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace (Animation & VFX)
- What Is Cinema? (Vol 1) (What is Cinema?), Andre Bazin (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Film form, Sergei Eisenstein (Film Theory & Criticism)
- The film sense, Sergei Eisenstein, Jay Leyda (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Theory of film, Siegfried Kracauer (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Ways of Seeing, John Berger (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Visual and other pleasures, Laura Mulvey (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Film Theory, Thomas Elsaesser (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Movies and meaning, Prince, Stephen, Stephen R. Prince (Film Theory & Criticism)
- How to read a film, Monaco, James., James Monaco (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Signs and meaning in the cinema, Peter Wollen (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Cinema 1 The Movement Image, Gilles Deleuze (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Cinema 2 The Time Image, Gilles Deleuze (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Narration in the fiction film, David Bordwell (Film Theory & Criticism)
- The Way Hollywood Tells It, David Bordwell (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Transcendental style in film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer, Paul Schrader (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Film theory and criticism, Gerald Mast, Marshall Cohen (Film Theory & Criticism)
- The Cinema Book, Pam Cook (Film Theory & Criticism)
- The story of film, Mark Cousins (Film History)
- A short history of film, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (Film History)
- Easy riders, raging bulls, Peter Biskind (Film History)
- The genius of the system, Thomas Schatz (Film History)
- Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger (Film History)
- The Parade's Gone By..., Kevin Brownlow (Film History)
- Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris (Film History)
- Five Came Back, Mark Harris (Film History)
- City of Nets, Otto Friedrich (Film History)
- An Empire of Their Own, Neal Gabler (Film History)
- The studio, John Gregory Dunne (Film History)
- Movie wars, Jonathan Rosenbaum (Film History)
- Black Film, British Cinema (ICA Documents), Kobena Mercer (Film History)
- Reel to real, Bell Hooks (Film History)
- Making movies Black, Thomas Cripps (Film History)
- Japanese cinema, Donald Richie (Film History)
- A Hundred Years of Japanese Film, Donald Richie (Film History)
- Directing the documentary, Michael Rabiger (Documentary)
- Documentary storytelling, Sheila Curran Bernard (Documentary)
- Introduction to documentary, Bill Nichols (Documentary)
- Representing reality, Bill Nichols (Documentary)
- The documentary film makers handbook, Genevieve Jolliffe, Andrew Zinnes (Documentary)
- Cinema verite in America: studies in uncontrolled documentary, Stephen Mamber (Documentary)
- Making documentary films and videos, Barry Hampe (Documentary)
- Producing with passion, Dorothy Fadiman (Documentary)
- Archival storytelling, Sheila Curran Bernard (Documentary)
- Pulp fiction, Quentin Tarantino (Screenplays & Scripts)
- Parasite, Bong Joon Ho (Screenplays & Scripts)
- The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson (Screenplays & Scripts)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script, Charlie Kaufman (Screenplays & Scripts)
- Little Miss Sunshine, Michael D. Arndt (Screenplays & Scripts)
- Juno, Diablo Cody (Screenplays & Scripts)
- Manchester by the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan (Screenplays & Scripts)
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