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Directing the Documentary, Fourth Edition

Directing the Documentary, Fourth Edition

by Michael Rabiger

Tens of thousands of readers have benefited from Michael Rabiger's classic text on documentary filmmaking, now updated to reflect the revolutionary switch to digital video equipment and software. You will learn how to research and focus a documentary film or video idea, develop a crew, direct the crew, maintain control during shooting, and oversee postproduction. Practical work is emphasized, with dozens of... (more)

Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors

Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors

by Laurent Tirard

From Scorsese and Lynch to Wenders and Godard, interviews with twenty of the world's greatest directors on how they make films--and why Each great filmmaker has a secret method to his moviemaking--but each of them is different. In Moviemaker Master Class , Laurent Tirard talks to twenty of today's most important filmmakers to get to the core of each director's approach to film, exploring the filmmaker's vision... (more)

Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present

Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present

by Peter E. Bondanella

Italian Cinema is the only complete and up-to-date book on the subject available anywhere, in any language. New coverage from 1989 to the present includes the Italian horror-film genre, Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful et al.), Bernardo Bertolucci (Stealing Beauty), Franco Zeffirelli (Tea with Mussolini), Michael Radford (The Postman <Il postino>), Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo), Maurizio Nichetti (The... (more)