Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television

Internationally-renowned directing coach Weston demonstrates what constitutes a good performance, what actors want from a director, what directors do wrong, script analysis and preparation, how actors…

If you like book Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing

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 c…
Buy this book on Amazon
Making Movies

“Invaluable.... I am sometimes asked if there is one book a filmgoer could read to learn more about how movies are made and what to look for while watching them. This is the book.” —Roger Ebert, The N…
Buy this book on Amazon
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones…
Buy this book on Amazon
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

Here’s what started the phenomenon: the best seller, for over 15 years, that’s been used by screenwriters around the world! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny and candid look inside the movie …
Buy this book on Amazon
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Paperback – November 29, 2005

A generation of screenwriters has used Syd Field’s bestselling books to ignite successful careers in film. Now the celebrated producer, lecturer, teacher, and bestselling author has updated his classi…
Buy this book on Amazon
On Directing Film

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…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

Buy this book on Amazon
Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)

Shot by Shot is the world’s go-to directing book, now newly updated for a special 25th Anniversary edition! The first edition sold over 250,000 copies, making it one of the bestselling books on film d…
Buy this book on Amazon
Hitchcock/Truffaut

Any book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's interlocutor is François Truffaut, the conversation is remarkable indeed. Here is a rare opportunity to …
Buy this book on Amazon
How Not to Make a Short Film

Buy this book on Amazon
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a r…
Buy this book on Amazon
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

Where do ideas come from?

In Catching the Big Fish, internationally acclaimed filmmaker David Lynch provides a rare window into his methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense cre…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood's most successful films, including Sleepless in …
Buy this book on Amazon
Producer to Producer: A Step-By-Step Guide to Low-Budgets Independent Film Producing

Buy this book on Amazon
Cinema Speculation

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and…
Buy this book on Amazon
Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road

A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max: Fury Road—with more than 130 new interviews with key members of the cast and crew, including Charliz…
Buy this book on Amazon
An Actor Prepares

Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well.
Buy this book on Amazon
The Hero With a Thousand Faces

The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world mythology, the book creates a roadmap for navigating the frustrating pa…
Buy this book on Amazon
Sanford Meisner on Acting

This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and eight women for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecti…
Buy this book on Amazon
Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, About Last Night, and Glory, creator of the show thirtysomething, and executive producer…
Buy this book on Amazon