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	Making A Good Script Great		$18.99
	A Guide for Writing & Rewriting	Linda Seger
	Making a good script great is not just a matter of having a good idea. Nor is it a matter of just putting that good idea down on paper. In scriptwriting, it's not just the writing but also the rewriting that counts. Making A Good Script Great focuses on the rewriting process and offers specific methods to help you craft tighter, stronger, and more workable scripts.

	Directing Actors		$42.00
	Creating Memorable Performances For Film & TV	Judith Weston
	Directing Actors is a method for establishing creative, collaborative relationships with actors, getting the most out of rehearsals, troubleshooting poor performances, and giving briefer directions. Ms Weston discusses what constitutes a good performance, what actors want from a director, what directors do wrong, script analysis, how actors work, and the director/actor relationship.

	Filmmakers Yearbook 2008t		Was $55.00 now $44.00
		Edited by Trisha Tuttle & Briony Hansen
	Compiled by industry experts. the Filmmakers Yearbook offers well researched, in-depth contact information and practical advice from leading filmmakers. This greatly expanded edition includes many original articles and contributions from industry insiders, as well as a new foreword by Sir Richard Eyre. Packed with all the latest information, this is an indispensable resource for anyone involved in the film industry.

	Surviving Hollywood		$42.95
	Your Ticket To Success	Jerry Rannow
	Anyone pursuing a show business career will find the secrets to enduring the Hollywood life in this all-encompassing resource.

	The Conversations		$39.95
	Walter Murch & The Art Of Editing Film	Michael Ondaatje
	From one of our most celebrated novelists, the author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost, comes this remarkable book-Michael Ondaatje's conversations over the period of a year with the film and sound editor Walter Murch.

	Film Directing Shot By Shot		$43.00
	Visualizing From Concept To Screen	Steven D Katz
	A complete catalogue of visual techniques and their stylistic implications for both the filmmaker and videomaker-"a text book" which enables working filmmakers (as well as screenwriters and others) to expand their stylistic knowledge.

	Actors At Work		$27.00
		Rosemarie Tichler & Barry Jay Kaplan
	With a nod to The Paris Review's Writers At Work Model, Actors At Work looks at the ways in which some of our most respected stage and film actors approach their calling. Rosemarie Tichler and Barry Jay Kaplan explore these performers' influences, their idols and insecurities, their paths to work and success, the uses of training, and the art of acting itself.

	Film Business		$49.95
	A Handbook For Producers	Edited by tom Jeffrey
	Film Business explains all you need to know to become a successful producer. The book covers building a business plan, selecting and analysing scripts, and creating strategies for deal-making, as well as the production and marketing of projects in a range of genres and markets-from traditional cinema to digital media and multi-platforms.

	Guerilla Film Makers Handbook		$106.00
	Ultimate Guide to Independent Film Making	Chris Jones & Genevieve Jolliffe
	Brand new edition of this bestseller - the only book an amateur film maker needs! An entirely new, updated, and expanded third edition of the UK's best-selling filmmaker's bible, last updated in 2000. This new edition builds upon the most successful features of the previous books. It is larger in format, and includes hundreds more illustrations, diagrams, and box-outs. The Q&A approach with experts is attractive in content and easy to digest. Where else can you listen to over 150 of the most knowledgeable people as they discuss their particular areas of expertise? And being filmmakers (not historians or lecturers), Jones and Jolliffe know which questions to ask and which are irrelevant or a distraction. They get to the core. The first half of this book is expanded with significantly more expert interviewees, delving into new areas of filmmaking not covered in the second edition. And all of the case studies are brand new, featuring in-depth stories from recent low-budget success stories like "Shaun of the Dead", "Open Water", and "Saw". This book comes with a DVD, packed with further Interviews with filmmakers, as well as theatrical trailers and other goodies.

	Bambi vs Godzilla		$29.95
	On The Nature, Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business	David Mamet
	In Bambi vs Godzilla, David Mamet, the award-winning playwright and screenwriter, gives us an axhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from the perspective of a filmmaker who has always played the game very much his own way.

	The Writers Journey		$40.00
	Mythic Structure For Writers	Christopher Vogler
	In "The Writer's Journey, 3rd Edition" Christopher Vogler, one of Hollywood's most renowned story consultants and teachers, expands his vision to show how storytelling evolved from sacred rituals and how its inexhaustible powers can be adapted to the needs of modern storytellers. New chapters on conflict, polarization, and catharsis add dimensions to the core material of "The Writer's Journey" that is now the most widely used book in the movie, TV, publishing, and computer gaming industries.

	Crafty TV Writing		$27.00
	Thinking Inside The Box	Alex Epstein
	Everyone watches TV, and everyone has an opinion on what makes good TV. But, as Alex Epstein shows in this invaluable guide, writing for television is a highly specific craft that requires knowledge, skill, and more than a few insider's tricks.

	Hollywood Undercover		was $35.00 now $28.00
	Revealing The Sordid Secrets of Tinseltown	Ian Halperin
	In Hollywood Undercover, Ian Halperin provides a scandalous glimpse behind the scenes of the movie industry

	In The Blink Of An Eye		$19.99
	A Perspective On Film Editing 2nd Edition	Walter Murch
	In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought-provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question - Why do cuts work? - Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of cutting film. Along the way, he offers his unique insights on such subjects as continuity and discontinuity in editing, dreaming, and reality; criteria for a good cut; the blink of the eye as an emotional cue; digital editing; and much more. In this second edition, Murch reconsiders and completely revises his popular first edition's lengthy meditation on digital editing (which accounts for a third of the book's pages) in light of the technological changes that have taken place in the six years since its publication.

	Post War Hollywood 1946-1962		was $54.95 now $43.95
		Drew Casper
	Postwar Hollywood is an accessible and comprehensive history of the American film industry, from 1946 to 1962. Drew Casper chronicles the restructuring of Hollywood cinema against the backdrop of the major political, economic, and social changes taking place after World War 2.

	Silent Movies		$69.95
	The Birth Of Film & The Triumph Of Movie Culture	Peter Kobel
	A gorgeous, lavish history of silent movies - with more than 400 amazing images - captures the birth of film and icons like Chaplin, Garbo, Clara Bow, and Valentino.Drawing on the extraordinary collection of The Library of Congress, one of the greatest repositories for silent film and memorabilia, Peter Kobel has created the definitive visual history of silent film.From its birth in the 1890s, with the earliest narrative shorts, through the brilliant full-length features of the 1920s, SILENT MOVIES captures the greatest directors and actors and their immortal films.

	The Star Machine		$70.00
		Jeanine Basinger
	From one of our leading film authorities, a rich, penetrating, amusing plum pudding of a book about the golden age of movies, full of Hollywood lore, anecdotes, and analysis. Jeanine Basinger gives us an immensely entertaining look into the “star machine,” examining how, at the height of the studio system, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the studios worked to manufacture star actors and actresses. With revelatory insights and delightful asides, she shows us how the machine worked when it worked, how it failed when it didn’t, and how irrelevant it could sometimes be.

	Five C's of Cinematography		$42.99
	Motion Picture Filming Techniques	Joseph V Mascelli
	The Five C's is one of the most widely respected books on filmmaking ever published. With the aid of hundreds of photographs and diagrams, it clearly and concisely presents the essential concepts and techniques of motion picture camerawork and the allied areas of filmmaking that they interact with and impact.

	Filming The Fantastic		$71.95
	A Guide to Visual Effects Cinematography	Mark Sawicki
	Filming the Fantastic is the new book on visual effects cinematography based on the experiences of award winning visual effects artist Mark Sawicki Mark traces the beginnings of the art of visual effects from the silent era to today highlighting the basic fundamentals that are the foundations of the craft. Throughout the heavily illustrated text Mark highlights historic milestones of effects photography and then demonstrates the principles using simple camera technique. The book is not software or digital centric but focuses on lighting and lenses that are the common denominator of all visual effects regardless of the medium.

	Tools Of Screenwriting		$20.99
	Writers Guide to the Craft & Elements of a Screenplay	David Howard & Edward Mabley
	Many fine books are available to guide you through the elements of a screenplay. This book goes quite a bit further, to remind and explain basic good storytelling from externalizing the internal to objective and subjective drama and the ubiquitous power of uncertainty. True, the authors offer sound advice for using such screenwriting tools as premise and opening, culmination and resolution, exposition and characterization, and other step-by-step essentials. Their analyses of 16 screenplays are further evidence of their craft and understanding of storytelling. Among the examples are Some Like It Hot, North by Northwest, Diner, Rashommon and Witness, each with succinct commentary to inspire, cajole and get thee to the keyboard.

	Trade Secrets		$34.95
	Australian Actors & Their Craft	Terence Crawford
	A fascinating examination of the acting processes of 14 of Australia’s finest actors. Features interviews with: Paula Arundell, Bille Brown, Helen Buday, Joel Edgerton, Judi Farr, John Gaden, Paul Goddard, Robert Grubb, Wendy Hughes, Heather Mitchell, Sean O'Shea, Pamela Rabe, Geoffrey Rush and Charles 'Bud' Tingwell. Each chapter gives an overview of the actors’ life, training, inspiration and reputation followed by an extensive interview with them about their craft and how they approach it.

	Story		$49.95
	Substance, Structure, Style, & the Principles of Screenwriting	Robert McKee
	In Story screenwriting guru Robert McKee presents his powerful and much sought-after knowledge in a comprehensive guide to the essentials of screenwriting and storytelling. Robert McKee presents his powerful and much sought-after knowledge in a comprehensive guide to the essentials of screenwriting and storytelling. Using hundreds of films as examples, McKee takes the writer through all the critical points which allows him/her to write a screenplay which both works and sells.

	Screenwriters Bible		$33.99
	A Complete guide to Writing, Formatting, And Selling Your Script	David Trottier
	The Screenwriter's Bible is six books in one. Book 1 -- A screenwriting primer that provides a concise presentation of screenwriting basics. Book 2 -- A workbook that walks the writer through the writing process, from nascent ideas through revisions. Book 3 -- A formatting guide that presents correct formats for both screenplays and TV scripts. Book 4 -- A spec writing guide that demonstrates today's spec style through sample scenes and analysis. Book 5 -- A sales and marketing guide that presents proven strategies to help you create a laser-sharp marketing plan. Book 6 -- A resource guide that provides addresses and contacts for industry organizations, schools, publications, support groups, services, contests, etc.