On Directing Film

English

ISBN: 0140127224

EAN: 9780140127225

Category: Performing Arts / Film & Video / Direction & Production

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 01/31/1992

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: Calling on his unique perspective as playwright, screenwriter, and director of his own critically acclaimed movies, House of Games and Things Change, David Mamet illuminates how a film comes to be. He looks at every aspect of directing--from script to cutting room--to show the many tasks directors undertake in reaching their prime objective: presenting a story that will be understood by the audience and has the power to be both surprising and inevitable at the same time. Based on a series of classes Mamet taught at Columbia Universitys film school, On Directing Film will be enjoyed not only by students but by anyone interested in an overview of the craft of filmmaking.

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Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 0.41 inches

Width: 5.14 inches

Length: 7.78 inches

Weight: 3.53 oz

Pages: 128