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The Craft of Screenwriting
2014 || Paperback || Addy Weijers || Boom
Isn't it ironic? Screenwriting is not something you learn from a book, or a talent that just falls into your lap. Nevertheless, without talent you will never become a great scriptwriter. Above all scriptwriting is a craft that you learn to master by writing, reflecting, and rewriting time after time. A book can help you with that. This book will hopefully encourage you to study scripts or reflect on movies and TV-drama. It will sharpen your view on the basics of storytelling and dramatic char...
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The Path to Paradise
A Francis Ford Coppola Story
2024 || Paperback || Sam Wasson || Faber & Faber
The definitive account of the legendary Francis Ford Coppola's decades-long dream to reinvent American film-making, if not the entire world. 'Supremely entertaining.' New York Times'Mouth-watering .
Anime
A Critical Introduction
2015 || Paperback || Rayna Denison || Bloomsbury Publishing
Anime: A Critical Introduction maps the genres that have thrived within Japanese animation culture, and shows how a wide range of commentators have made sense of anime through discussions of its generic landscape. From the battling robots that define the mecha genre through to Studio Ghibli’s dominant genre-brand of plucky shojo (young girl) characters, this book charts the rise of anime as a globally significant category of animation. It further thinks through the differences between anime...
Docufictions
Essays on the Intersection of Documentary and Fictional Filmmaking
2005 || Paperback || Gary D. Rhodes e.a. || McFarland & Co
These 18 essays examine the relationships between narrative fiction films and documentary filmmaking, focusing on how each influenced the other and how the two were merged in diverse films and shows. Topics include the docudrama in early cinema, the industrial film as faux documentary, the fear evoked in 1950s science fiction films, the selling of ""reality"" in mockumentaries, and reality TV and documentary forms.
Essays on the Essay Film
2017 || Paperback || Nora M. Alter e.a. || Columbia University Press
The essay-with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements-has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically discussed forms of filmmaking around the world, with practitioners such as Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl, Errol Morris, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Rithy Panh.
Characteristics of the essay film include the blending of fact and ficti...
Inside Track for Independent Filmmakers
Get Your Movie Made, Get Your Movie Seen
2015 || Paperback || Adam Leipzig || Macmillan
Leipzig, past president of National Geographic Films and a former senior executive at Disney, reveals insider secrets, step-by-step instructions, and timesaving shortcutsNeverything one needs to approach financiers, actors, agents, and distributors like a savvy professional.
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Conflict and development in iranian film / druk 1
2013 || Paperback || Kamran Talattof e.a. || Leiden University Press
Dit deel in de serie Iranian Studies onderzoekt de filosofische onderbouwing en filmische technieken die kenmerkend zijn voor Iraanse film. Het laat zien hoe thema's als martelaarschap en oorlog, gender en sociaal beleid in Iraanse cinema worden benaderd, en hoe de regisseurs ze met behulp van een verscheidenheid aan technieken behandelen. Er wordt een overzicht gegeven van de poëtische en mystieke dimensies van Abbas Kiarostami's films. Daarnaast wordt beschreven wat de effecten van de Isla...
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Icons of Cinema: Baz Luhrmann
2024 || Hardcover || Emily Maskell || Bonnier Books Ltd
Discover what makes a Luhrmann film - how he earned auteur status, the ingredients that comprise his signature style, the influences that led him to create each project and the themes he revisits most often in his work.
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The Magic of MinaLima
Celebrating the Graphic Design Studio Behind the Harry Potter & Fantastic Beasts Films
2022 || Hardcover || MinaLima e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A full-colour illustrated compendium chronicling the magical twenty-year journey of acclaimed art and design studio, MinaLima, the creative genius behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film series.
Timothee Chalamet Is Life
A Superfan’s Guide to All Things We Love about Timothee Chalamet
2025 || Hardcover || Kathleen Perricone || Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Timothée Chalamet Is Life is a beautifully illustrated guide that explores and celebrates the actor and his films.