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Victoria Alonso takes readers on her journey from Argentina to America to Hollywood and illuminates the ways everyone ca......more
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The Documentarian: The Way to a Successful and Creative Professional Life in the Documentary Business is the ultimate go......more
Renowned for his masterful storytelling, Alan J. Pakula (1928-1998) left an indelible mark on cinema history. Alan J. Pa......more
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This book explores the role that talent intermediaries, including talent agents, talent managers and producers, play in ......more
Introduction to Cinematography offers a practical, stage by stage guide to learning, combining, and using the creative a......more
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In the 1970s, British filmmaker Ken Russell (1927-2011) quickly gained a reputation as the enfant terrible of British ci......more
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Towards Embodied Performance invites directors and other generative performance makers to experiment with making their o......more
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This book examines Chinese films made and shown abroad roughly between the 1920s and the 2020s, from the beginning of th......more
With contributions by over 30 industry professionals, The Intimacy Coordinator’s Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Sc......more
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