Research Guides: Film Studies: Books

Books/eBooks

The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age by Steven Ascher; Edward Pincus
Call Number: TR850 .P54 2012
Location: Second Floor Stacks
Authoritative guide to producing, directing, shooting, editing, and distributing your video or film.
Film Studies: An Introduction by Ed Sikov
Offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema. Designed for courses on film history, film theory, and popular culture.
Grasping Shadows: The Dark Side of Literature, Painting, Photography, and Film by William Chapman Sharpe
Call Number: NX650.S55 S53 2017
Location :Second Floor Stacks
This full-length study of art shadows proposes a general theory of how all shadows function in text and visual media, ultimately offering four main categories.
Story-Boarding Essentials: How to Translate Your Story to the Screen for Film, TV, and Other Media by Benjamin Reid Phillips; David Harland Rousseau
Call Number: PN1995.9.P7 R655 2013
Location :Second Floor Stacks
Guide to visual storytelling that covers everything students and working professionals need to master the art of writing and formatting scripts, creating frames, and following visual logic to create a cohesive narrative.
Technology and Film Scholarship by Santiago Hidalgo (Editor); André Gaudreault (Editor)
This volume brings together a wide range of explorations of the ways in which technological innovations have established new and changing conditions for the experience and study of film.

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