From a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright comes invaluable insights and practical instructions on the art of film directing. Mamet looks at every aspect of directing--from script to cutting room--and draws from a wide variety of sources to make his points.

埃里克·舍曼,出生于洛杉矶，成长在好莱坞的制片厂里，现任教于加利福尼亚艺术学院，曾在几家主要的好莱坞电影公司担任制片主管，与一些好莱坞顶尖级的编剧、制片和导演一起工作，成功地保证了许多电影在预算的资金和时间之内出品。从1976年开始，除了与一些工作室合作之外，埃里克还拥有和经营着一个电影公司Film Transform，全面涵盖了电影和视频制作的业务。他的著作包括四本广泛使用的教科书：《导演电影》（Directing the Film）、The Director's Event、Frame By Frame和Selling Your Film。

迈克尔·拉毕格（Michael Rabiger），曾任芝加哥哥伦比亚学院影视系主任，并建立了该学院的纪录片中心，在欧洲为国际影视院校联合会（CILECT）主持跨国纪录片讲习班，曾导演、剪辑了超过35部电影作品。他是纽约大学艺术学院的客座教授，讲授故事创意、导演和高级制片课程。其他著作有《开发故事创意》（Developing Story Ideas）《纪录片创作完全手册》（Directing the Documentary），这些教材为世界各地电影院校、电影专业人士、电影爱好者所喜爱，并不断更新、再版，长销不衰。 唐培林，湖南永州人，副教授、硕士生导师。自1988 年起，先后求学于湖南师范大学，学习英语语言文学专业（学士）；北京广播学院（现中国传媒大学），学习广播电视艺术学专业电视艺术与技术方向（硕士）；中国传媒大学，学习广播电视艺术学专业电视剧历史与...(展开全部)

The book uses extensive illustrations to explain how to create extended sequence shots, elaborate moving camera choreography, and tracking shots with multiple story points.

Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics is a comprehensive manual that has inspired tens of thousands of readers worldwide to realize their artistic vision and produce well-constructed films. Filled with practical advice on every stage of production, this is the book you will return to throughout your career. Directing covers the methods, technologies, thought processes, an...(展开全部)

Demonstrates what constitutes a good performance, what actors want from a director, what directors do wrong and more.

A priceless examination of the filmmaker's craft, from the renowned director of Sweet Smell of Success After more than twenty years in the film industry as a screenwriter, storyboard editor, and director of memorable films such as The Ladykillers, Alexander Mackendrick turned his back on Hollywood and began a new career as the Dean of one of the country's most demanding and inf...(展开全部)

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 moviessince 1915. This graphic approach includes comparisons of style by interpreting a 'model script', created for the book, in storybo...(展开全部)

The study of cinematic style has in many ways shaped attitudes towards films. Style assigns films to a tradition, distinguishes a classic and signals the arrival of an innovation. This book aims to show how film scholars have attempted to explain stylistic continuity and change across the history of cinema. The author explores the theories of style launched by Andre Bazin, Noel...(展开全部)

The study of cinematic style has in many ways shaped attitudes towards films. Style assigns films to a tradition, distinguishes a classic and signals the arrival of an innovation. This book aims to show how film scholars have attempted to explain stylistic continuity and change across the history of cinema. The author explores the theories of style launched by Andre Bazin, Noel...(展开全部)