Making Movies

Written by Sidney Lumet

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2010
Price: $11.99

From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on 40 years of experience on movies ranging from Long Day's Journey Into Night to The Verdict, Lumet explains the... Read more >

The Tragedy of Mister Morn

Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Translated by Thomas Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $26.00

For the first time in English, Vladimir Nabokov’s earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-four: his only full-length play, introduced by Thomas Karshan and beautifully translated by Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy.

The Tragedy of Mister Morn was written in the winter of 1923­­–1924, when Nabokov was completely unknown. The...

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I Do and I Don't
A History of Marriage in the Movies
Written by Jeanine Basinger

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00

From one of our leading film historians and interpreters: a brilliantly researched, irresistibly witty, delightfully illustrated examination of “the marriage movie”; what it is (or isn’t) and what it has to tell us about the movies—and ourselves.

As long as there have been feature movies there have been marriage movies, and yet...

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Both of Us
My Life with Farrah
Written by Ryan O'Neal, Jodee Blanco and Kent Carroll

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $13.99

Ryan O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett. He was the handsome Academy Award–nominated star of Paper Moon and the classic romance Love Story. She was the beautiful, all-American Charlie’s Angel, whose poster adorned the bedroom walls of teenage boys everywhere. One of the most storied love affairs in Hollywood history, their romance has... Read more >

The Intent to Live
Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor
Written by Larry Moss

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 28, 2004
Price: $13.99

“I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don’t seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.”
–Larry Moss, from the Introduction

When Oscar-winning actors Helen Hunt and Hilary Swank accepted their Academy Awards, each credited Larry Moss’s guidance as key to their career-making performances. There is a... Read more >

How to Get the Part... Without Falling Apart!
Featuring the Haber Phrase Technique for Actors
Written by Margie Haber and Barbara Babchick
Foreword by Heather Loclear

Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1999
Price: $18.95

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The Great Movies

Written by Roger Ebert

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $15.99

America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made. 

For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offers... Read more >

How Not to Write a Screenplay
101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make
Written by Denny Martin Flinn

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1999
Price: $16.95

All good screenplays are unique, but all bad screenplays are the same. Flinn's book will teach the reader how to avoid the pitfalls of bad screenwriting and arrive at one's own destination intact. Read more >

True and False
Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
Written by David Mamet

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $14.00

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. With these words, one of our most brilliantly iconoclastic playwrights takes on the art of profession of acting, in a book that is as shocking as it is practical, as witty as it is instructive, and as irreverent as... Read more >

American Rebel
The Life of Clint Eastwood
Written by Marc Eliot

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $16.99

As an actor, he seduces us with his tough-guy charm. As a director and producer, he amazes us with his artistry and technical savvy. As a Hollywood icon, Clint Eastwood, one of film's greatest living legends, represents some of the finest cinematic achievements in the history of American cinema.

In American... Read more >