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On Directing Film Paperback - 1992
by David Mamet
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.
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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 directingfrom script to cutting roomto 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 University's 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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Calling on this 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.
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- Title On Directing Film
- Author David Mamet
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1992-01-01
- ISBN 9780140127225 / 0140127224
- Weight 0.23 lbs (0.10 kg)
- Dimensions 7.92 x 5.02 x 0.36 in (20.12 x 12.75 x 0.91 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures - Production and direction
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.430
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