The Filmmaking Library
A curated library of books on directing, screenwriting, cinematography, editing, and film history — browsable by category with details for every title.
Titles
- 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)
- Writing screenplays that sell — Michael Hauge (Screenwriting)
- The anatomy of story — John Truby (Screenwriting)
- Into the Woods — John Yorke (Screenwriting)
- Making a good script great — Linda Seger (Screenwriting)
- The writer's journey — Christopher Vogler (Screenwriting)
- Your Screenplay Sucks! — William M Akers (Screenwriting)
- The Idea — Erik Bork (Screenwriting)
- Alternative scriptwriting — Ken Dancyger (Screenwriting)
- Crafty screenwriting — Alex Epstein (Screenwriting)
- On directing film — David Mamet (Directing)
- Directing the documentary — Michael Rabiger (Directing)
- Making movies — Sidney Lumet (Directing)
- Sculpting in Time — Andrei Tarkovsky (Directing)
- Directing Actors — Judith Weston (Directing)
- The film director's intuition — Judith Weston (Directing)
- Rebel Without a Crew — Robert Rodriguez (Directing)
- Notes on the Cinematographer (Sun and Moon Classics) — Robert Bresson (Directing)
- A director prepares — Anne Bogart (Directing)
- Film directing shot by shot — Steven D. Katz (Directing)
- Film directing fundamentals — Nicholas T. Proferes (Directing)
- Setting up your shots — Jeremy Vineyard (Directing)
- Directing the story — Francis Glebas (Directing)
- On film-making — Alexander Mackendrick (Directing)
- Grammar of the film language — Daniel Arijon (Directing)
- The directors — Robert J. Emery (Directing)
- Cinematography : Theory and Practice — Blain Brown (Cinematography)
- Painting with light — John Alton (Cinematography)
- The five C's of cinematography — Joseph V. Mascelli (Cinematography)
- Masters of light — Dennis Schaefer (Cinematography)
- Set lighting technician's handbook — Harry C. Box (Cinematography)
- Motion Picture and Video Lighting — Blain Brown (Cinematography)
- The filmmaker's handbook — Steven Ascher (Cinematography)
- American Cinematographer Manual — Stephen H. Burum (Cinematography)
- Reflections — Benjamin Bergery (Cinematography)
- Light-- science and magic — Fil Hunter (Cinematography)
- The Visual Story — Bruce Block (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)
- Grammar of the edit — Roy Thompson (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 complete film production handbook — Eve Light Honthaner (Producing & Business)
- Producer to Producer — Maureen Ryan (Producing & Business)
- Film production management — Bastian Clevé (Producing & Business)
- The biz — Schuyler M. Moore (Producing & Business)
- Down and dirty pictures — Peter Biskind (Producing & Business)
- The Hollywood standard — Christopher Riley (Producing & Business)
- Filmmaking for dummies — Bryan Michael Stoller (Producing & Business)
- The Insider's Guide to Independent Film Distribution — Stacey Parks (Producing & Business)
- Sound Design — David Sonnenschein (Sound & Music)
- Audio-vision — Michel Chion (Sound & Music)
- Sound for film and television — Tomlinson Holman (Sound & Music)
- The sound effects bible — Ric Viers (Sound & Music)
- Practical art of motion picture sound — David Lewis Yewdall (Sound & Music)
- The location sound bible — Ric Viers (Sound & Music)
- Dialogue editing for motion pictures — John Purcell (Sound & Music)
- The filmmaker's guide to production design — Vincent LoBrutto (Production Design & Costume)
- Production design & art direction — Peter Ettedgui (Production Design & Costume)
- Costume design — Barbara Anderson (Production Design & Costume)
- Designing movies — Richard Sylbert (Production Design & Costume)
- What an art director does — Ward Preston (Production Design & Costume)
- The art direction handbook for film — Michael Rizzo (Production Design & Costume)
- The illusion of life — Frank Thomas Bullen (Animation & VFX)
- The animator's survival kit — Richard Williams (Animation & VFX)
- Timing for animation — Harold Whitaker (Animation & VFX)
- Character animation crash course! — Eric Goldberg (Animation & VFX)
- The art of 3-D computer animation and effects — Isaac Victor Kerlow (Animation & VFX)
- The visual effects producer — Charles L. Finance (Animation & VFX)
- Digital Compositing for Film and Video — Steve Wright (Animation & VFX)
- Special Effects — Richard Rickitt (Animation & VFX)
- Creating characters with personality — Tom Bancroft (Animation & VFX)
- Film art — David Bordwell (Film Theory & Criticism)
- 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 (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Theory of film — Siegfried Kracauer (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Film theory and criticism — Gerald Mast (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Ways of Seeing — John Berger (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Signs and meaning in the cinema — Peter Wollen (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Visual and other pleasures — Laura Mulvey (Film Theory & Criticism)
- The Cinema Book — Pam Cook (Film Theory & Criticism)
- How to read a film — James Monaco (Film Theory & Criticism)
- Narration in the fiction film — David Bordwell (Film Theory & Criticism)
- A short history of the movies — Gerald Mast (Film History)
- The story of film — Mark Cousins (Film History)
- Easy riders, raging bulls — Peter Biskind (Film History)
- The genius of the system — Thomas Schatz (Film History)
- The Parade's Gone By... — Kevin Brownlow (Film History)
- Hollywood Babylon — Kenneth Anger (Film History)
- The classical Hollywood cinema — David Bordwell (Film History)
- From Caligari to Hitler — Siegfried Kracauer (Film History)
- Pictures at a Revolution — Mark Harris (Film History)
- The studio — John Gregory Dunne (Film History)
- My Last Sigh Vintage — Luis Buñuel (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Werner Herzog - A Guide for the Perplexed — Paul Cronin (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Conquest of the useless — Werner Herzog (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Lynch on Lynch — Chris Rodley (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Scorsese on Scorsese — Martin Scorsese (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Spike Lee's gotta have it — Spike Lee (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Alfred Hitchcock — Peter Ackroyd (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Wes Craven — John Wooley (Biographies & Memoirs)
- Introduction to documentary — Bill Nichols (Documentary)
- Documentary storytelling — Sheila Curran Bernard (Documentary)
- Representing reality — Bill Nichols (Documentary)
- Cinema verite in America: studies in uncontrolled documentary — Stephen Mamber (Documentary)
- Documentary filmmakers speak — Liz Stubbs (Documentary)
- The shut up and shoot documentary guide — Anthony Q. Artis (Documentary)
- Direct Cinema — Dave Saunders (Documentary)
- An Actor Prepares — Konstantin Stanislavsky (Acting & Performance)
- Respect for acting — Uta Hagen (Acting & Performance)
- Audition — Michael Shurtleff (Acting & Performance)
- True and False — David Mamet (Acting & Performance)
- The actor and the target — Declan Donnellan (Acting & Performance)
- Impro — Keith Johnstone (Acting & Performance)
- Acting for the camera — Tony Barr (Acting & Performance)
- A challenge for the actor — Uta Hagen (Acting & Performance)
- The empty space — Peter Brook (Acting & Performance)
- Building a Character — Konstantin Stanislavsky (Acting & Performance)
- On acting — Laurence Olivier (Acting & Performance)
- Chinatown — Robert Towne (Screenplays & Scripts)
- Taxi driver — Paul Schrader (Screenplays & Scripts)
- Pulp fiction — Quentin Tarantino (Screenplays & Scripts)
- Reservoir dogs — Quentin Tarantino (Screenplays & Scripts)
- Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind — Charlie Kaufman (Screenplays & Scripts)
- Being John Malkovich — Charlie Kaufman (Screenplays & Scripts)
- The big Lebowski — Ethan Coen (Screenplays & Scripts)
- Manhattan — Woody Allen (Screenplays & Scripts)
- The Citizen Kane book. -- — Herman J. Mankiewicz (Screenplays & Scripts)
- Do the right thing — Spike Lee (Screenplays & Scripts)
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