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Limelight Editions The Independent Filmmaker's Guide: Make Your Feature Film for $2 000
Award-winning independent filmmaker Glenn Berggoetz shares all he knows about making a marketable feature film for $2 000. While most books on independent filmmaking talk about how to make a film with a budget of anywhere from $50 000 to half a million dollars or more the reality of the indie film world is that most filmmakers rarely have more than a few thousand dollars at their disposal for making their film. This book is written specifically for those filmmakers and for filmmakers who would typically waste years trying to raise tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to make their film simply because they're not aware that there's another more efficient way to go about it.
£12.09
Limelight Editions Grease: Music on Film Series
£9.60
Limelight Editions Seats: New York: 180 Seating Plans to New York Metro Area Theatres, Concert Halls and Sports Stadiums
£14.09
Limelight Editions Three Plays By George Kelly
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Limelight Editions Film Noir Compendium: Key Selections from the Film Noir Reader Series
In this essential study of film noir editors Alain Silver and James Ursini select the most significant and influential articles on the movement from their highly respected Film Noir Reader series and assemble them into a single convenient heavily illustrated volume. Still included of course are many rare early articles and such seminal essays as Borde and Chaumeton's Towards a Definition of Film Noir from ÊPanorama du Film Noir AmericainÊ Paul Schrader's Notes on Film Noir and Paint It Black: the Family Tree of the Film Noir by Raymond Durgnat. With newer studies such as Lounge Time by Vivian Sobchack Manufacturing Heroines in Classic Noir Films by Sheri Chinen Biesen and Voices from the Deep: Film Noir as Psychodrama J. P. Telotte this collection of over 30 articles probes this most influential American film movement from varying angles: formalist feminist structuralist sociological and stylistic; narrative-thematic historical and even from the point of view of a pure aficionado. There is something in this volume for every student or devotee of film noir. Plus like the readers that have proven an invaluable tool for academics planning a syllabus it can serve as the most complete core text for any of the myriad of film noir courses taught throughout the world.
£22.50
Limelight Editions A Quick Guide to Film Directing
ÊA Quick Guide to Film DirectingÊ provides the reader with a concise and comprehensive overview of this creative and exciting occupation. Written in a fast-paced easy-to-understand fashion the book addresses such topics as what film direction is; the history of the profession; how to become a director; the creative and practical duties and challenges of a film director in the three stages of making a movie (preproduction production and postproduction); working with actors; working with the members of the technical crew (cinematographers editors production designers etc.); the director's support team (assistant director production manager and so on); and the business of being a film director. It also offers a brief look at some of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of the cinema.
£9.99
Limelight Editions A Quick Guide to Television Writing
ÊA Quick Guide to Television WritingÊ is the ultimate reference manual to the art craft and business of writing for the small screen. In a series of brief but comprehensive segments the book covers the entire process of creating a professional television script from conceiving the initial idea to polishing the final draft. Covered topics include: the three main types of teleplays; an overview of dramatic storytelling; adapting a dramatic story to the specific demands of television storytelling; the techniques of television storytelling; teleplay style and formatting; how to create a television series; important T.V. writing dos and don'ts: the business of television writing including an overview of the many jobs and positions available to T.V. writers; and how to bring your work to the attention of the industry. Written in smart reader-friendly prose the book is chock full of the vital information helpful tips and keen advice that will help you make your teleplay the best it can be.
£9.99
Limelight Editions A Quick Guide to Screenwriting
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£9.99
Limelight Editions Cabaret: Music on Film Series
£8.22
Limelight Editions Real: Scenes and Monlogues for Urban Youth
£12.72
Limelight Editions Shakespeare for American Actors and Directors
£12.09
Limelight Editions Getting Past Me: A Writer's Guide to Production Company Readers
£9.18
Limelight Editions Private Stories: Monologues for Young Actors Ages 8 to 16
£10.22
Limelight Editions An Actor Prepares to Work in New York City: How to Master the Business of The Business
£13.12
Limelight Editions Callback: How to Prepare for the Callback to Succeed in Getting the Part
£9.61
Limelight Editions Film Noir Light and Shadow
Despite a glut of black and white filters the digital revolution in videography has all but abandoned the art science beauty and power of cinematic lighting that literally illuminated the Golden Age of motion pictures. ÊFilm Noir Light and ShadowÊ explores an era before CGI ä a time when every photon mattered and the lighting of a set served a grander purpose than simply rendering its subjects visible. Edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini the duo behind numerous critically acclaimed studies of other aspects of noir this anthology presents a series of essays that examine the visual style of the filmmakers of cinema's classic period. Some focus on individual pictures or directors; others discuss elements of style or sub-groups of movies within the movement. All are sharply focused on what makes the noir phenomenon unique in American ä and global ä cinematic history. Aside from highlighting the innovative work of its editors and their late colleague Robert Porfirio ÊFilm Noir Light and ShadowÊ also shares its light with a bevy of contributors who have written and edited their own books on the subject ä a list of luminaries that includes Sheri Chinen Biesen Shannon Clute and Richard Edwards Julie Grossman Delphine Letort Robert Miklitsch R. Barton Palmer Homer Pettey Marlisa Santos Imogen Sara Smith and Tony Williams. As befits the topic this volume is lavishly illustrated with 500 images that capture the richness and breadth of the classic period's imagery making it an ideal companion for students of the genre film historians sprocket fiends and the retrospectively inclined.
£18.99
Limelight Editions The Little Blue Book for Filmmakers: A Primer for Directors, Writers, Actors and Producers
Originally conceived as a workbook for young directors ÊThe Little Blue Book for FilmmakersÊ has become a handbook for easy reference with all the information a student director/actor/producer needs to create a film from inception through production to sales distribution and exhibition.ÞThe book discusses issues faced by all beginning filmmakers with a historical perspective that explains problems and solutions that reach back to the invention of movies at the turn of the last century and stretch forward to include new digital technology and the popularization of videography as global self-expression. A valuable addition to the shelves of all film school instructors who've not had years of practical experience working in the trade it's also a syllabus in itself and can be the foundation for a course schedule. More important it's something every film student will want to own as a reference and guide.
£14.99
Limelight Editions The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Music on Film Series
£8.22
Limelight Editions Great Singers on Great Singing: A Famous Opera Star Interviews 40 Famous Opera Singers on the Technique of Singing
Jerome Hines has interviewed 40 singers a speech therapist and a throat specialist to provide this invaluable collection of advice for all singers. This collection includes the commentary of Licia Albanese Franco Corelli Placido Domingo Nicolai Gedda Marilyn Horne Sherrill Milnes Birgit Nilsson Luciano Pavarotti Rose Ponselle Beverly Sills Joan Sutherland and many others.Þ Probably the best book on the subject. ÞÊPublishers WeeklyÊ
£20.47
Limelight Editions Grace Under Pressure: Passing Dance Through Time
A critic and writer on dance for well over twenty years Barbara Newman has gone in search of teachers and coaches directors choreographers and stagers ä former dancers who had turned the focus of their own experience on others ä to explain the state of ballet today. Among leaders of the dance world the author interviewed were Suki Schorer Helgi Tomasson Mark Morris Violette Verdy and 14 other artists whose work she knew and respected most of them active outside of New York and London. Newman is not interested in dance as an aesthetic abstraction and the people who answered her questions were not speaking theoretically. On the contrary her speculation and their responses bring an elusive subject down to earth illuminating a process that reaches back in history and forward to today though its dreams are of a world no one can imagine.
£19.79
Limelight Editions My Dinner of Herbs
A star of two well-remembered television series The FBI and 77 Sunset Strip Efrem Zimbalist Jr. looks back on the many different roads he has traveled in his lifetime and recreates his most memorable experiences in the prose of a true stylist. The son of two legendary musical talents the violinist Efrem Zimbalist and the operatic soprano Alma Gluck Efrem Jr. grew up on an estate in the Connecticut countryside. Long before he was a recognized actor Zimbalist broke a show business barrier as coproducer of Gian Carlo Menotti's operatic double bill ÊThe MediumÊ and ÊThe TelephoneÊ on Broadway. Its critical and (surprising) commercial success led to Zimbalist's coproduction of Menotti's next opera ÊThe ConsulÊ also on Broadway and also with gratifying results including the Pulitzer Prize.
£19.17
Limelight Editions The Complete Guide to Writing, Producing and Directing a Low-Budget Short Film
ÊThe Complete Guide to Writing Producing and Directing a Low-Budget Short FilmÊ is a comprehensive step-by-step overview of how to complete and promote a low-budget short film. It begins with how to write a short script keeping in mind the goal of shooting it in one or at most two days. It discusses how to finalize your script by getting feedback and then preparing it for production through doing a scene breakdown and possibly a storyboard. It describes how to direct the film yourself or work with a director audition the actors and cast the short plan for and participate in the shoot and work with an editor to finish your film. Finally it discusses how to get your film shown including entering it in festivals and concludes with an extensive list of resources and references including books articles script and storyboard software conferences expos festivals and more.
£16.22
Limelight Editions Blumenfeld's Dictionary of Musical Theater
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Limelight Editions Actors Talk About Shakespeare
£15.17
Limelight Editions Winning Auditions: 101 Strategies for Actors
This book isn't about methods. It's not another how-to book. It's a revelation: a shared collection of actors' trade secrets ä tricks of the trade divulged by professionals in an experimental workshop that lasted nearly a year. You'll discover what actually sells you more than talent. You'll find out how powerful body language can be and even how influential color is in the audition room. You'll learn what keeps a photo on a casting director's desk and what keeps a casting director on your side. In short you'll have 101 innovative ways to get what you've always wanted: more of the parts you deserve.
£9.89
Limelight Editions The New Tax Guide for Performers, Writers, Directors, Designers & Other Show Biz Folk
£11.34
Limelight Editions The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to True Blood
This newest edition will track the form's evolution from such 1970s reinventions as ÊCount Yorga VampireÊ and ÊBlaculaÊ ÊThe HungerÊ and ÊVampire's KissÊ in the Eighties ÊInterview with the VampireÊ ÊBram Stoker's DraculaÊ and the ÊBladeÊ series in the Nineties through Ê30 Days of NightÊ ÊI Am LegendÊ and the ÊUnderworldÊ series in the first decade of the 21st century. All these films plus celebrated international examples such as ÊThirstÊ and ÊLet the Right One InÊ and the hit television series ÊBuffy the Vampire SlayerÊ ÊNew AmsterdamÊ ÊAngelÊ ÊThe Vampire DiariesÊ and ÊTrue BloodÊ are covered in this long-awaited completely revised expanded and redesigned fourth edition that follows the vampire figures both male and female through the millennium and beyond.
£22.50
Limelight Editions Manhattan on Film: Walking Tours of Hollywood's Fabled Front Lot
This book offers 18 of the best walking tours you'd ever want to take of the greatest venues of movie scenes in New York City. In one volume Katz updates the two best-selling Limelight Editions guidebooks ÊManhattan on FilmÊ and ÊManhattan on Film 2Ê to include films released over the past six years as well as changes to New York City neighborhoods especially lower Manhattan. Each tour is illustrated with photos from each film shot along its route and includes maps and travel tips. No tour takes more than two hours. A list of the films with page references provides an easy guide for those who want to quickly look up their favorite movies.
£14.51
Limelight Editions Play by Play: Theater Essays & Reviews 1993-2002
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Limelight Editions The Actor as Storyteller: An Introduction to Acting
ÊThe Actor as StorytellerÊ is intended for serious beginning actors. It opens with an overview explaining the differences between theater and its hybrid mediums the part an actor plays in each of those mediums. It moves on to the acting craft itself with a special emphasis on analysis and choice-making introducing the concept of the actor as storyteller then presents the specific tools an actor works with. Next it details the process an actor can use to prepare for scene work and rehearsals complete with a working plan for using the tools discussed. The book concludes with a discussion of mental preparation suggestions for auditioning a process for rehearsing a play and an overview of the realities of show business.ÞIncluded in this updated edition are:ÞÛ A detailed examination of script analysis of the overall play and of individual scenesÞÛ A sample of an actor's script filled with useful script notationsÞÛ Two new short plays one written especially for this textÞÛ Updated references lists of plays and recommended further reading
£18.99
Limelight Editions Actor's Alchemy: Finding the Gold in the Script
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Limelight Editions Purple Rain: Music on Film Series
In the summer of 1984 a small low-budget film came out of nowhere and unexpectedly debuted at the number one slot at the box office unseating reigning champion ÊGhostbustersÊ and making its star Prince a household name. By the end of the year the film was a multiple-award winner a trend setter in terms of fashion and recognized on many prominent critical top ten lists. ÊPurple Rain: Music on FilmÊ explores in detail the behind-the-scenes struggles and triumphs of the film's making from the trouble casting a female lead to star opposite Prince to concerns that the movie's urban vibe and sound wouldn't play in Peoria. Featuring extensive new interviews with the film's director producer and assistant editor ÊPurple RainÊ reveals a 1980s cult-classic as you've never seen heard or experienced it before. Let's go crazy...
£9.35
Limelight Editions Acting Solo: Roadmap to Success
£13.88
Limelight Editions Monologue Mastery: How to Find and Perform the Perfect Monologue
ÊMonologue MasteryÊ is a manual and workbook for the beginning actor as well as the seasoned professional. It addresses in specific detail every phase of monologue preparation from selection to performance. It covers in great detail the three most important phases of monologue selection and performance: how to find great little-known monologues how to find monologues that fit you perfectly and how to act the monologue brilliantly and capture the auditors' attention. ÊMonologue MasteryÊ is easy reading full of entertaining anecdotes and intensely practical providing a step-by-step approach to doing monologues in a very concise manner. ÊMonologue MasteryÊ is a handbook that actors will rely on for years to come.ÞHIGHLIGHTS:ÞA workbook that gives specific exercises to help the actor discover his/her type and to learn how to rehearse and prepare his/her monologue.
£12.30
Limelight Editions The Amazing Story of The Fantasticks: America's Longest-Running Play
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Limelight Editions The Perfect Monologue: How to Find and Perform the Monologue That Will Get You the Part
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Limelight Editions Ready for My Close-Up!: Great Movie Speeches
If I want to send a message I'll call Western Union. This famous line has been attributed to various movie moguls yet while these moguls ruled the Hollywood studio system movies were in the midst of a golden age of dialogue. Films included more messages ideas themes and pontifications than they ever have since. Although producers trembled at commands from the front office writers (the low men and women on the totem pole) went quietly to their typewriters and as the subversive revolutionaries that most writers are turned out prose that did send messages. How could they resist? They had the biggest and best platform in the world: Hollywood movies. The 200 speeches collected in ÊReady for My Close-Up!Ê are from some of the best ä and a few of the worst ä films ever made. From Groucho Marx's I shot an elephant in my pajamas to Julia Roberts's What it takes to be a movie star here is the wit and wisdom of the great Hollywood screenwriters.
£14.99
Limelight Editions Writing the 10-Minute Play
Paperback Original
£15.24
Limelight Editions Finding Funds for Your Film or TV Project
£12.21
Limelight Editions How to Rehearse When There Is No Rehearsal: Acting and the Media
£16.11
Limelight Editions Actors Talk: Profiles and Stories from the Acting Trade
£19.03
Limelight Editions The Monologue Audition: A Practical Guide for Actors
£17.99
Limelight Editions In and Out of Character
Basil Rathbone's book about himself...is better written than most books by or about actors and is more intellectually vigorous...Sherlock Holmes fans will be much interested in his remarks on the character with whom he has been so closely identified. äLibrary Journal Quite naturally full of memories full of names full of glimpses of stars of stage and screen of yesterday and today. äNew York Times Book Review
£14.99