This book combines an engaging layout with hundreds of photos to chronicle Chaplin’s brilliant career as an actor, writer, and director, as well as, his often-controversial and much-publicized personal life. more...

The perfect harmony of photography and story has been the goal of professional cinematographers since Billy Bitzer first filmed the ideas of D.W. Griffith. The art of the cinematographer has often been submerged beneath fashionable theories of director as autuer or the star system. more...

"He's a Hyphenate" That's Hollywood lingo for a person who has done more than one job on a film. Director-Writer-Cameraman-Producer-Naturalist, and Oscar nominee, Jack Couffer falls into that rare niche of multitaskers who has done it all. He has made movies of many genres all over the world, but more...

This groundbreaking book takes the reader behind the closed doors of the editing room where Sam O’Steen along with Hollywood’s greatest directors controlled the fate of many legendary films. The book shares his editing tales spiced with juicy anecdotes about exotic locations and colorful more...

Through conversations held with fifteen of the most accomplished contemporary cinematographers, the authors explore the working world of the person who controls the visual look and style of a film. This reissue includes a new foreword by cinematographer John Bailey,ASC, and a new preface by the more...

From the American Cinematographer magazine comes this definitive look at the work of one of the innovators in motion picture photography, whose films include such classics as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The King Of Marvin Gardens, Shampoo, Ghostbusters andmore...

A cinematographer's skill can make or break a film's overall look, and yet cinematographers are legendarily reticent to discuss their craft. New Cinematographers meets this challenge, featuring the the work of six major, young, contemporary cinematographers whose more...

Exploring the careers of thirty-seven prominent French cinematographers, En Lumière, features interviews with these renowned cinematographers by the directors with whom they built their careers. This luxurious 232-page volume provides a unique portrait of the more...

As one of the most highly acclaimed stop-motion animators in movie history, Ray Harryhausen was responsible for the dinosaurs, aliens, and mythological creatures from classic films, captured in both images and essays in this timeless book. more...

Ray Harryhausen is arguably the greatest stop-motion animator in the history of motion pictures, blazing new trails in special effects from the 1950s to the 1980s creating realistic dinosaurs, fantastic aliens, and imaginative mythological creatures. In the animator's own words, accompanied by more...

The great figurative (and psychological) values that unite the two artists. About the meeting with painting and Gino Covili, sign of their common feeling of light, colour, and image. more...