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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

15 Groundbreaking Women Directors

In Hollywood, women don't have to be in front of the cameras to shine.



Each of the 15 women profiled in Film Makers share a common trait: she is, as Shonda Rhimes says, "First. Only. Different."



These phenomenal women have redefined the film and television industry, winning awards historically given to a male counterpart, being the only woman in a writers' room, or portraying stories no one else could tell.



While their resumes are impressive, it is how they live their lives that has made a greater impact in the communities they serve.

Film Makers

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Mark Shulman

Hazlitt Krog

California

This hilariously helpful guide explores every stage of video production, from brainstorming, to organizing a shoot, to finally piecing it all together.

Attack of the Killer Video Book; Tips and Tricks for Young Directors

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Julia Phillips

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Ohio

A leading female film producer provides an insider's view of Hollywood, detailing the glittering public functions, the bedroom and boardroom games, drugs, stars, agents, directors, gangsters, and politicians

You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again

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This first edition hardcover book is the fruit of research into the missing moments and unreported conttibutions of women in the theatre. Containing exquisite achromatic photographs, all but four of the fifty haing been previosuly published at the time, the reader will be guided through historical women who made an impact (no longer a forgotten one) on the arts.

New York

Women in American Theatre

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North Carolina

Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System

The 1990s saw a shock wave of dynamic new directing talent that took the Hollywood studio system by storm. At the forefront of that movement were six innovative and daring directors whose films pushed the boundaries of moviemaking and announced to the world that something exciting was happening in Hollywood. Sharon Waxman of the New York Times spent the decade covering these young filmmakers, and in Rebels on the Backlot she weaves together the lives and careers of Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction; Steven Soderbergh, Traffic; David Fincher, Fight Club; Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights; David O. Russell, Three Kings; and Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich.

Rebels on the Backlot

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Virginia

Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film

In this "dishy...superbly reported" (Entertainment Weekly) New York Times bestseller, Peter Biskind chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers who reinvented Hollywood--most notably Sundance founder Robert Redford and Harvey Weinstein, who with his brother, Bob, made Miramax Films an indie powerhouse.

As he did in his acclaimed Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind "takes on the movie industry of the 1990s and again gets the story" (The New York Times). Biskind charts in fascinating detail the meteoric rise of the controversial Harvey Weinstein, often described as the last mogul, who created an Oscar factory that became the envy of the studios, while leaving a trail of carnage in his wake. He follows Sundance as it grew from a regional film festival to the premier showcase of independent film, succeeding almost despite the mercurial Redford, whose visionary plans were nearly thwarted by his own quixotic personality.

Likewise, the directors who emerged from the independent movement, such as Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, and David O. Russell, are now among the best-known directors in Hollywood. Not to mention the actors who emerged with them, like Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Ethan Hawke, and Uma Thurman.

Candid, controversial, and "sensationally entertaining" (Los Angeles Times) Down and Dirty Pictures is a must-read for anyone interested in the film world.

Down and Dirty Pictures

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Some Observations on the Art of Directing

A Sense of Direction

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Compiled quotes and advice from our most beloved and admired filmmakers

The Filmmaker Says

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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Washington

The Movie Makers

Nicholas Jarecki

Roger Ebert

How 20 Film Directors Got Their Start

A naked-truth collection of interviews with today’s hottest film directors detailing how they made their first films and "broke into" the movie industry. When Nicholas Jarecki graduated from New York University’s film school at the age of nineteen, he knew that he wanted to make movies, but the fortress-like wall around the film industry proved hard to crack. So he set out to talk to some of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers about how they got started, thinking that if he learned their stories, he might well find his own road to success. The end result is Breaking In, a sizzling look at the movie industry that delivers candid advice from twenty of today’s most provocative directors--from the blockbuster kings to the arthouse visionaries. Filled with insights they don’t teach you in film school, Breaking In offers readers access to some of Hollywood’s greatest minds, revealing what sparked their passion for film and what they did to get their first break. From the creation of the script to the first day’s shoot to the roller-coaster of marketing and promotion, the directors share unique insights into the myriad ways of getting films off the ground, and offer a wealth of practical tips for aspiring filmmakers. Their interviews also present an insider’s glimpse of their sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous, but always exhilarating rides to the top.

Breaking In

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Masters of Cinema Series

Tim Burton(USA, b. 1958) is the youngest of Hollywood's most successful directors. He has the knack of making films with a very broad appeal, taking the silliness out of the representation of children, while remaining in touch with the child within himself and his audiences. Burton emerged as a director and storyteller after working as an animator for Disney. His meeting with Johnny Deppenabled him to give physical form to the heroes of his imaginary worlds, where fear is mixed with laughter, strange is normal and those who are not normal, such as Edward Scissorhands(1990), must be preserved. After Beetlejuice (1988) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(2005), the resolutely boyish Burton, now in his fifties, presents his version of Alice in Wonderland(2010).

Tim Burton

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Third Expanded Edition & Updated with new Epilogue

In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a film set in the Edo period to be called The Ocean Was Watching.

Kurosawa remains unchallenged as one of the century's greatest film directors. Through his long and distinguished career he managed, like very few others in the teeth of a huge and relentless industry, to elevate each of his films to a distinctive level of art. His Rashomon-one of the best-remembered and most talked-of films in any language-was a revelation when it appeared in 1950 and did much to bring Japanese cinema to the world's attention. Kurosawa's films display an extraordinary breadth and an astonishing strength, from the philosophic and sexual complexity of Rashomon to the moral dedication of Ikiru, from the naked violence of Seven Samurai to the savage comedy of Yojimbo, from the terror-filled feudalism of Throne of Blood to the piercing wit of Sanjuro.

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Film Makers

Mark Shulman; Hazlitt Krog; Illustrated by Martha Newbigging

Attack of the Killer Video Book; Tips and Tricks for Young Directors

Julia Phillips

You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again

Helen Krich Chinoy, Linda Walsh Jenkins

Women in American Theatre

Sharon Waxman

Rebels on the Backlot

Peter Biskind

Down and Dirty Pictures

William Ball

A Sense of Direction

Jamie Thompson Stern

The Filmmaker Says

Various Authors

The Movie Makers

Nicholas Jarecki; Roger Ebert

Breaking In

Aurélien Ferenzci

Tim Burton

Donald Richie

The Films of Akira Kurosawa

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John bertalots immediately practical tips for choral directors