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On Directing Film

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by David Mamet
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Availability:In StockContributor:David MametAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1992-01-01Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140127225ISBN-10:140127224UPC:9780140127225Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Film, ReferenceBook Topic:Direction & Production, ScreenwritingSize:7.92 x 5.02 x 0.36 inchesWeight:0.2293Product ID:SCJ5Y45CV1
A masterclass on the art of directing from the Pulitzer Prize-winning (and Oscar and Tony-nominated) writer of Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed the Plow, The Verdict, and Wag the Dog

Calling on his unique perspective as playwright, screenwriter, and director of his own critically acclaimed movies like House of Games, State and Main, 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. Based on a series of classes Mamet taught at Columbia University's film school, On Directing Film will be indispensible not only to students but to anyone interested in an overview of the craft of filmmaking.

"Passion, clarity, commitment, intelligence--just what one would expect from Mamet." --Sidney Lumet, Academy Award-nominated director of 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, and The Verdict
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140127225ISBN-10:140127224UPC:9780140127225Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Film, ReferenceBook Topic:Direction & Production, ScreenwritingSize:7.92 x 5.02 x 0.36 inchesWeight:0.2293Product ID:SCJ5Y45CV1
DAVID MAMET is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright as well as a director, novelist, poet, and essayist. He has written the screenplays for more than twenty films, including The Verdict, The Untouchables and Wag the Dog, and has twice been nominated for an Academy Award. His HBO film Phil Spector, starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren, aired in 2013 and earned him two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Directing. He has written more than twenty plays, including Oleanna, The Cryptogram, Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and the Pulitzer Prizewinning Glengarry Glen Ross. Born in Chicago in 1947, Mamet has taught at the Yale School of Drama, New York University, and Goddard College, and he lectures at the Atlantic Theater Company, of which he is a founding member.
Publisher: Penguin Books

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