A Few Thoughts On Paper

This booklist is by no means a must-have-library for each and every aspiring filmmaker. It's not your ticket into the world of moving pictures. Nor is it substitute to creativity, or craft. It's a list of books that working filmmakers have read and considered a helping tool. It is here to give you an idea what to look for regarding a specific question, or where to gain insight to a certain field. No book on this list is "better" than another, although some are more recommended by a lot of people because they have proven to perform well in building some stable base to work from. You can't get the wrong book. They are all different.
Feel free to drop us a message on books not covered in this list, if you think they fit in here we'll be happily adding to the page.

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Film Theory | The Craft | Low Budget | Screenwriting | Screenplays | Biographies
Film Theory

Film Art|David BroadWell & Kristin Thompson
Film As Art|Rudolf Arnheim
Film As Film|V.F. Perkins
Film, Form And Culture|Robert Kolker
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The Craft Of Filmmaking

Cinematic Motion|Steven D. Katz
Cinematography|J. Kris Malkiewicz
Film Business|Tom Jeffrey
Film Directing Fundamentals|Nicholas T. Proferes
How To Shoot A Movie Story|Robert McKee
How To Shoot A Movie Story|Auther L. Gaskill & David A. Englander
Making Movies|Sidney Lumet
Motion Picture Camera Techniques|David W. Samuelson
Movie Mistakes|Jon Sandys
Shot By Shot|Seven D. Katz
Television Production|Gerald Millerson
The Film Director - Second Edition|Richard L. Bare
The Filmmaker's Handbook|Steven Ascher & Edward Pincus
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Micro To No-Budget

Feature Filmmaking At Used-Car Prices|Rick Schmidt
Independent Feature Film Production|Gregory Goodell
Killer Camera Rigs That You Can Build|Dan Selakoyich
On Video|Hedgecoe
Producing Videos - A Complete Guide|Martha Mollison
The Guerilla Filmmaker's Handbook|Chris Jones
The Low Budget Video Bible|Cliff Roth
The Low Budget Video Bible|Kim Adelman
Video Production Handbook|David Cheshire
Video Production Handbook|Gerald Millerson
What They Don't Teach You At Film School|Camille Landau
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Screenwriting

500 Ways To Eat The Hollywood Script Reader|Jennifer Lerch
Cause Of Death|Keith D. Wilson
Creating Unforgettable Characters|Linda Seger
Description|Monica Wood
How To Write A Movie In 21 Days|Viki King
How To Write A Selling Screenplay|Christopher Keane
How To Write Mysteries|Shannon O'Cork
Scene Of The Crime|Anne Wingate
Screenplay|Syd Field
Screenwriting|Raymond G. Frensham
Screenwriting Tricks Of The Trade|William Froug
Suspense Fiction |Patricia Highsmith
The 101 Habits Of Highly Successful Screenwriters|Karl Iglesias
The Hero With A Thousand Faces
The Masks Of God Oriental Mythology|Joseph Campbell
The Screenwriter's Handbook|Constance Nash
The Television Writer|Erik Barnouw
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations|George Polti
The Way To Write Radia Drama|William Ash
Writing A Thriller|Andre Jute
Writing For Television|Gilbert Seldes
Writing Great Screenplays For Film And TV|Dona Cooper
Writing Scripts Hollywood Will Love|Katherine Herbert
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Outstanding Screenplays To Study

Casablanca|Richard J. Anobile
Psycho|Richard J. Anobile
The Maltese Falcon|Richard J. Anobile
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War Diaries

Adventures In The Secret Trade|William Goldman
By Any Means Necessary|Spike Lee
Film Makers On Film Making|Harry M. Geduld
George Lucas Companion|Howard Maxford
If Chins Could Kill - Confessions Of A B-Movie Actor|Bruce Campbell
Rebel Without A Crew|Robert Rodriguez
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Encore Directory 2005|DVLab
Film Fun
Inside Prime Time|Todd Gitlin
Into Film|Laurence Goldsten & Jay Kaufman
Shooting To Kill|Christine Vanchon
Theme And Strategy|Ronald Tobais
The Writer's Complete Crime Reference Book|Martin Roth
To Catch A Forger|Robert Wallace
Who's On First?|Richard J. Anobile