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  • Digital Filmmaking for Beginners A Practical Guide to Video Production

    Discover how to create professional-quality digital videos--faster than you can say "lights, camera, action"Digital video cameras are everywhere--even on our phones! But cameras don't make great movies; filmmakers do. Written by a seasoned pro with 40 years of teaching experience, Digital Filmmaking for Beginners is your fully illustrated introduction to all technical aspects of digital filmmaking ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Digital Filmmaking Handbook

    Seventh Edition

    Series Book 1 - The Digital Filmmaking Handbook Presents
    Who hasn’t dreamed about making a movie? We'll show you how to navigate the world of independent filmmaking, from script to screen. The Digital Filmmaking Handbook will help you make the movie you've been dreaming about.For this edition, we’ve focused on soft skills: developing a project, writing a compelling story, working with actors, the special challenges of directing. After all, these are the ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Those Guys Have All the Fun

    Inside the World of ESPN

    In the exclusive behind the scenes look, sports fans can unlock the fascinating history of the channel that changed the way people watch and interact with their favorite teams.It began, in 1979, as a mad idea of starting a cable channel to televise local sporting events throughout the state of Connecticut. Today, ESPN is arguably the most successful network in modern television history, spanning ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Always On Sunday: An Inside View of Ed Sullivan, the Beatles, Elvis, Sinatra & Ed's Other Guests

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!How The Beatles Came To AmericaFamous television Master of Ceremonies, Ed Sullivan first learns I have written a book about him and his show when I hand him a finished manuscript. Naively, I imagine he'll be flattered, but when he reads it, he's furious. I am revealing more about him, more backstage gossip and more details about the inner workings of the show than he ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Big Bang Theory

    The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series

    The definitive, behind-the-scenes look at the most popular sitcom of the last decade, The Big Bang Theory, packed with all-new, exclusive interviews with the producers and the entire cast.The Big Bang Theory is a television phenomenon. To the casual viewer, it’s a seemingly effortless comedy, with relatable characters tackling real-life issues, offering a kind of visual comfort food to its ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • My Happy Days in Hollywood

    A Memoir

    With the television hits The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy, and movies like The Flamingo Kid, Beaches, Pretty Woman, and The Princess Diaries under his belt, Garry Marshall has been among the most successful writers, directors, and producers in America for more than five decades. His work on the small and big screen has delighted audiences for the last three decades ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Film Directing: Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen

    Visualizing from Concept to Screen

    by Steven Katz ...
    A complete catalogue of motion picture techniques for filmmakers. It concentrates on the 'storytelling' school of filmmaking, utilizing the work of the great stylists who established the versatile vocabulary of technique that has dominated the movies since 1915. This graphic approach includes comparisons of style by interpreting a 'model script', created for the book, in storyboard form. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Directed by James Burrows

    Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More

    by James Burrows ...
    **“Being directed by the Jimmy Burrows, while on Friends, was like hitting the jackpot. I’m delighted that everyone can now share in his incredible insight with this book.”—JENNIFER ANISTONFrom the director of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, and Will & Grace comes an insightful and nostalgic behind-the-scenes memoir that’s “as difficult to put down as a Friends marathon is to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Steven Universe: Art & Origins

    Steven Universe: Art & Origins is the first book to take fans behind the scenes of the groundbreaking and boundlessly creative Emmy Award-winning Cartoon Network animated series Steven Universe. The eponymous Steven is a boy who—alongside his mentors, the Crystal Gems (Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl)—must learn to use his inherited powers to protect his home, Beach City, from the forces of evil. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Woke Up This Morning

    The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"I will be reading and rereading Woke Up This Morning....These rollicking gabfests... bring together nearly everyone, on screen and off, who made the series a creative and cultural landmark. The freely offered admiration expressed by so many for their missing comrade and unofficial cast captain, Gandolfini, makes these stories about playing tough guys all the more ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Lighting for Cinematography

    A Practical Guide to the Art and Craft of Lighting for the Moving Image

    by David Landau ...
    Series series The CineTech Guides to the Film Crafts
    We can't shoot good pictures without good lighting, no matter how good the newest cameras are. Shooting under available light gives exposure, but lacks depth, contrast, contour, atmosphere and often separation. The story could be the greatest in the world, but if the lighting is poor viewers will assume it's amateurish and not take it seriously. Feature films and TV shows, commercials and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Cinematography

    Third Edition

    The Essential Guide to the Cameraman's CraftSince its initial publication in 1973, Cinematography has become the guidebook for filmmakers. Based on their combined fifty years in the film and television industry, authors Kris Malkiewicz and M. David Mullen lay clear and concise groundwork for basic film techniques, focusing squarely on the cameraman's craft. Readers will then learn step-by-step how ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Amazon Fire TV

    The Insider Secrets on Amazon Fire TV Unveiled

    by James Burton ...
    Are you looking for a hassle free way to operate your Amazon Fire TV device? This user guide is written just for you. The Amazon Fire TV User Guide contains lucid examples and illustrations to allow you to gain full mastery over operating the device. This is the most comprehensive and best user guide available on Amazon Fire TV device, which allows you to enjoy countless hours of quality movie and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show

    by Tara Bennett ...
    Collected from a truly expansive exploration of television’s most creative minds, Showrunners is an insider’s guide to creating and maintaining a hit show in today’s golden age of television. The official companion to the documentary Showrunners, this highly informative book features exclusive interviews with such acclaimed and popular showrunners as Joss Whedon, Damon Lindelof, Ronald D.Moore, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Star Trek Memories

    The star of the legendary sci-fi franchise shares the ultimate “Captain’s Log” in this classic behind-the-scenes memoir.A living pop culture legend and one of Hollywood’s most enduring stars, William Shatner will forever be associated with the role of James T. Kirk, captain of the starship Enterprise and hero of the sci-fi series Star Trek. Beginning in 1966, Star Trek offered something entirely ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Film Director's Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques

    by Judith Weston ...
    Acclaimed director Weston offers a deeply creative exploration on how to access and stimulate the filmmaker's most precious assets: instincts, imagination, and intuition. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Production Sound Mixing

    The Art and Craft of Sound Recording for the Moving Image

    Series series The CineTech Guides to the Film Crafts
    The latest hot camera is pretty irrelevant if one can't understand what's happening on screen. The key to any narrative is in the dialogue and voice over, but if this is unintelligible or difficult to hear, viewers will soon lose interest. With real world applications and a narrative to keep the reader's interest, Production Sound Mixing is the indispensable guide for film and video audio ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Steven Universe: End of an Era

    Chris McDonnell’s Steven Universe: End of an Era is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling behind-the-scenes companion book Steven Universe: Art & Origins.Foreword by Hugo Award–winning author N. K. JemisinShowcasing new concept art, storyboards, background paintings, and exclusive interviews, End of an Era will update the history of the Emmy Award–winning series to cover season four ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inside Black Mirror

    The first official companion to the Netflix cult-hit sci-fi television series that's fascinated millions of fans worldwideWhat becomes of humanity when it's fed into the jaws of a hungry new digital machine? Discover the world of Black Mirror in this immersive, illustrated, oral history.This first official book logs the entire Black Mirror journey, from its origins in creator Charlie Brooker's ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Welcome to the O.C.

    The Oral History

    “A fascinating peek behind the making of a megahit, and a delightful bit of nostalgia for those of us who remember life before streaming TV.” —Town & CountryWelcome to the O.C., b*tch: it’s the definitive oral history of beloved TV show The O.C., from the show’s creators, featuring interviews with the cast and crew, providing a behind-the-scenes look into how the show was made, the ups and downs ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Head of Drama

    The Memoir of Sydney Newman

    The memoir of the creator of Doctor Who and a legend in British and Canadian TV and filmA major influence on the BBC and independent television in Britain in the 1960s, as well as on CBC and the National Film Board in Canada, Sydney Newman acted as head of drama at a key period in the history of television. For the first time, his comprehensive memoirs — written in the years before his death in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People

    by Drew Campbell ...
    Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People introduces film students, actors, producers and other nontechnical film people to the technical aspects that everyone working on a film set should know. Author Drew Campbell is a lighting and sound designer for Universal Studios who started out in theater and who was struck by the complex technical procedures and idiosyncratic expressions that he ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Doctor Who: The Time Lord Letters

    A unique collection of more than 100 never-before-seen letters, notes, and jottings both by and to the Doctor—correspondence by turns entertaining and inspiring, funny and flippant, brilliant and incredible drawn from all fifty-two years of the show.No one could travel through history—past present and future—as much as the Doctor does without leaving an impression. Much of what we know about this ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The World of Star Trek

    by David Gerrold ...
    In The World of Star Trek, David Gerrold opens up dialogue on the people, places, and events that made Star Trek one of the most popular series ever. Gerrold discusses what was successful and what wasn't, offering personal interviews with the series' legendary stars and dissecting the trends that developed throughout the seasons.The complete inside story of what happened behind the scenes of the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD