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...

Edited with consummate care by George Turner, one of Hollywood's foremost historians, this book offers 25 in-depth historical articles, some expanded from the pages of American Cinematographer. more...

NEWLY revised and expanded, Film Lighting by Kris Malkewiewicz is an indispensable guide for anyone who uses lightning, whether for fim, video, or still photography.

Lighting is a living, dynamic art influenced by new technologies and the changing styles of leading cinematographers. more...

Raymond Chandler in Hollywood is an entertaining and comprehensive assessment of Chandler’s turbulent association with Hollywood, both as a screenwriter whose credits included Double Indemnity, The Blue 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...

If you love animation then you're in for a treat!

Olivier Cotte has gone behind-the-scenes of 13 of the greatest short animations ever made, interviewing the directors and close collaborators who made each one, to offer us a unique guide to classic techniques from the masters of their crafts. 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...

This historical and somewhat autobiographical book starts in 1947 with a brief discussion of Kodak’s on-going research programs for the production of color motion pictures in 3-color photography. Continuing with the progress made within the program for specially designed color print film(to be used 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...

Spanning the rich history of movie magic, this completely up-to-date guide to visual trickery is unparalleled in scope, presenting a clearly written, lushly illustrated chronicle of special effects development over ten decades of filmmaking. more...

Two essential works: the documentary film Cinematographer Style interviews 110 cinematographers to get to the heart of what cinematography is, and Reflections, using diagrams, interviews and film frames, deconstructs how classic film scenes were shot. more...

90TH Anniversary Special: Get two studies on the craft of cinematography with Reflections and Painting With Light. Each book features in-depth interviews with prominent contemporary cinematographers. more...

History and the Evolution of Photography
Introduction: Contemporary thoughts on the History of Photography
The Technical Evolution of Photography in the 19th Century
Introduction of Photographic Equipment, Processes and Definitions of the 19th Century
Photographic Equipment, Processes more...