$18.32 sale price when purchased online
$21.99 list price
Target Online store #3991
About this item
Highlights
- What choices--creative, practical, and technical--make a movie what it is?
- About the Author: If the U.S. were to boast one great independent film director, he would be John Sayles, a cult figure among his admirers.
- 336 Pages
- Performing Arts, Film
Description
About the Book
In this illuminating book, a gifted writer and filmmaker takes readers behind the camera and provides a full description of the moviemaking process.Book Synopsis
What choices--creative, practical, and technical--make a movie what it is? Here a gifted writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provides a full description of the movie-making process.When John Sayles turned from writing fiction to making movies, he did so with little help from Hollywood: Return of the Secaucus Seven, Sayles's first movie as director and writer, was produced with 60,000 of his own money. Many films later, he still works outside the studio system and guides every phase of his productions.Now Sayles has written an illuminating book about the complex choices that lie at the heart of every movie. Using the making of his film Matewan as an example, he offers chapters on screenwriting, directing, editing, sound, and more. Photographs, sketches, and the complete shooting script illustrate this engaging account of how Sayles's curiosity about a coal miners' strike in the town of Matewan, West Virginia, became a screenplay--and then a movie.About the Author
If the U.S. were to boast one great independent film director, he would be John Sayles, a cult figure among his admirers. Nominated for both an Academy Award for scriptwriting and a National Book Award, Sayles has written screenplays, teleplays, short stories, and novels and has worked as a script doctor for a virtual who's who of Hollywood film and television talent.Dimensions (Overall): 9.01 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .91 Inches (D)
Weight: .99 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 336
Genre: Performing Arts
Sub-Genre: Film
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Theme: Direction & Production
Format: Paperback
Author: John Sayles
Language: English
Street Date: July 3, 2003
TCIN: 77015265
UPC: 9780306812668
Item Number (DPCI): 247-24-3903
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
If the item details above aren’t accurate or complete, we want to know about it.
Shipping details
Estimated ship dimensions: 0.91 inches length x 5.9 inches width x 9.01 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.99 pounds
We regret that this item cannot be shipped to PO Boxes.
This item cannot be shipped to the following locations: American Samoa (see also separate entry under AS), Guam (see also separate entry under GU), Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico (see also separate entry under PR), United States Minor Outlying Islands, Virgin Islands, U.S., APO/FPO
Return details
This item can be returned to any Target store or Target.com.
This item must be returned within 90 days of the date it was purchased in store, shipped, delivered by a Shipt shopper, or made ready for pickup.
See the return policy for complete information.