Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System
10 best books like Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System (Sharon Waxman): Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World, This Is Orson Welles, Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade, Scorsese on Scorsese, Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors, Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists, The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film, Making Movies, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World
| Author | David Koenig |
| ISBN | 0964060523 |
The first in-depth, unauthorized look at the creation and operation of the world's most popular vacation destination. The author of the best-selling Mouse Tales: A Behind-the-Ears Look at Disneyland reveals how Walt Disney's City of Tomorrow evolved into a sprawling resort where?despite extraordinary...
Innovative film and theater director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915–1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such great radio works as "War of the Worlds" to his cinematic masterpieces Citizen Kane, The Magnificent...
| Author | William Goldman |
| ISBN | 0747553173 |
Something odd, if predictable, became of screenwriter William Goldman after he wrote the touchstone tell-all book on filmmaking, Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983), he became a Hollywood leper. Goldman opens his long-awaited sequel by writing about his years of exile before he found himself--again--as...
| Author | David Thompson |
| ISBN | 0571178278 |
This book is filled with insights on Marty's filmmaking process. When I started reading this book, I decided to watch his films along the way. It was a slow but very fulfilling experience! While one may not like all of his films, one would still gain certain appreciation for these films having read his...
| Author | Peter Bogdanovich |
| ISBN | 0345404572 |
Peter Bogdanovich, director, screenwriter, actor and critic, interviews sixteen legendary directors of the first hundred years of film - from Allan Dwan and Raoul Walsh to Leo McCarey, Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Lumet. The conversations brought together in this book give us a history of the movies....
| Author | Steven Bach |
| ISBN | 1557043744 |
Heaven's Gate is probably the most discussed, least seen film in modern movie history. Its notoriety is so great that its title has become a generic term for disaster, for ego run rampant, for epic mismanagement, for wanton extravagance. It was also the film that brought down one of Hollywood’s major...
| Author | Michael Ondaatje |
| ISBN | 0375709827 |
The Conversations is a treasure, essential for any lover or student of film, and a rare, intimate glimpse into the worlds of two accomplished artists who share a great passion for film and storytelling, and whose knowledge and love of the crafts of writing and film shine through.
It was on the...
| Author | Sidney Lumet |
| ISBN | 0679756604 |
lumet's an interesting guy to think about if one decides to make a film -- the guy's made some of the best films of our time. but for me, lumet provides a cautionary tale of what not to become.
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Before the Devil Knows...
| Author | Peter Biskind |
| ISBN | 0684857081 |
However much is true, however much really happened that way, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How The Sex 'N' Drugs 'N' Rock 'N' Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind remains one of my favorite non-fiction reads. For those who hear "film history" and think Titanic, in 1967, the major American film studios...
| Author | Robert Rodríguez |
| ISBN | 0452271878 |
In Rebel Without a Crew, famed independent screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Sin City 2, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids) discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used to make his remarkable debut film, El Mariachi, on a shoestring budget. This is both...
| Author | Julia Phillips |
| ISBN | 0571216234 |
Julia Phillips became a Hollywood player in the freewheeling 1970s, the first woman to win the Best Picture Oscar as co-producer of The Sting. She went on to work with two of the hottest young directorial talents of the era: Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver) and Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the...
| Author | David Mamet |
| ISBN | 0140127224 |
According to David Mamet, a film director must, above all things, think visually. Most of this instructive and funny book is written in dialogue form and based on film classes Mamet taught at Columbia University. He encourages his students to tell their stories not with words, but through the juxtaposition...
| Author | Walter Murch |
| ISBN | 1879505622 |
In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought-provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question - Why do cuts work? - Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of...
| Author | Julie Salamon |
| ISBN | 0306811235 |
"A definitive portrait of the madness of big-time moviemaking."--Newsweek
When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe's best-selling book The Bonfire of the Vanities, both director and journalist must have felt like they were...
| Author | David Lynch |
| ISBN | 0571220185 |
David Lynch erupted onto the cinema landscape in 1977 with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original and imaginative directors at work in contemporary cinema. Over the course of his career, he has remained true to a vision of the innocent lost in darkness and confusion, balancing...
