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On Directing Film

Author Mamet, David
Publisher Penguin Books
Category Performing Arts
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Author(s) Mamet, David
Publisher Penguin Books
ISBN / ASIN 0140127224
ISBN-13 9780140127225
Availability In Stock.
Sales Rank #27,751
Category Performing Arts
Marketplace United States 🇺🇸
Description
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 University. He encourages his students to tell their stories not with words, but through the juxtaposition of uninflected images. The best films, Mamet argues, are composed of simple shots. The great filmmaker understands that the burden of cinematic storytelling lies less in the individual shot than in the collective meaning that shots convey when they are edited together. Mamet borrows many of his ideas about directing, writing, and acting from Russian masters such as Konstantin Stanislavsky, Sergei M. Eisenstein, and Vsevelod Pudovkin, but he presents his material in so delightful and lively a fashion that he revitalizes it for the contemporary reader.
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