5 must-read nonfiction books like The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age by Steven Ascher

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The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age

By: Steven Ascher

3.87

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

A fully revised, comprehensive guide offers an exploration of today's recent technological advances…

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Cover of NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

1. NOS4A2

By: Joe Hill

4.08

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New Y… read more

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"Everyone lives in two worlds,"

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"And he paddled away in his douche canoe."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Sooner or later a black car came for everyone."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

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2. The Fireman

By: Joe Hill

3.91

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a ch… read more

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"Fuck narrative elegance."

-Joe Hill, The Fireman

" Snuffleupagus was real. "

-Joe Hill, The Fireman

"Arson is almost as good as Prozac."

-Joe Hill, The Fireman

"Out of the frying pan and into the Fireman."

-Joe Hill, The Fireman

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3. Something Like an Autobiography

By: Akira Kurosawa , Audie Bock

2.62

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"A first rate book and a joy to read...It's doubtful that a complete understanding of the director'… read more

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  • film
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4. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium, #5)

By: David Lagercrantz , George Goulding

3.63

Format: None pages,

Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force:Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women's prison for sa… read more

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5. Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics

By: Michael Rabiger

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics is a comprehensive manual that teaches the essentials of … read more

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  • art
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6. Your Screenplay Sucks!: 100 Ways to Make It Great

By: William M. Akers

2.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

A lifetime member of the Writer's Guild of America who has had three feature films produced from hi… read more

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7. The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4)

By: Stieg Larsson , David Lagercrantz , George Goulding

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

She is the girl with the dragon tattoo--a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusadin… read more

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8. Making Movies

By: Sidney Lumet

5.00

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and … read more

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9. Adventures in the Screen Trade

By: William Goldman

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-wi… read more

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10. On Directing Film

By: David Mamet

3.18

Format: 159 pages,

According to David Mamet, a film director must, above all things, think visually. Most of this inst… read more

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11. City on Fire

By: Garth Risk Hallberg

2.00

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's … read more

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12. Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

By: Robert Rodríguez

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Rebel Without a Crew, famed independent screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Si… read more

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13. Christine

By: Stephen King , None

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

"This is the story of a lover's triangle...It was bad from the start. And it got worse in a hurry."… read more

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14. Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen

By: None

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

This international best-seller is filled with visual techniques for filmmakers and screenwriters wh… read more

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15. In the Blink of an Eye

By: Francis Ford Coppola , Walter Murch

3.00

Format: 18 pages,

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16. Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

By: Robert McKee

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring no… read more

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17. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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18. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

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"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

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19. Imaginary Friend

By: Stephen Chbosky

3.55

Format: 705 pages, Hardcover

Christopher is seven years old. Christopher is the new kid in town. Christopher has an imaginary … read more

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"Good guys win the war."

-Stephen Chbosky, Imaginary Friend

"Selbst Monster waren liebenswert, wenn sie klein waren."

-Stephen Chbosky, Imaginary Friend

"Unterdrücke deine Angst oder lass dich von ihr verschlingen."

-Stephen Chbosky, Imaginary Friend

"You have to live your life before you get to live your Heaven."

-Stephen Chbosky, Imaginary Friend

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20. Cinematography

By: Kris Malkiewicz

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Since its initial publication in 1973, "Cinematography" has become the standard guidebook on filmma… read more

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21. The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age

By: Steven Ascher

3.87

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

A fully revised, comprehensive guide offers an exploration of today's recent technological advances… read more

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5 must-read film books like The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age by Steven Ascher

Transform Your Habits

Something Like an Autobiography

Akira Kurosawa , Audie Bock

2.62

Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics

Michael Rabiger

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Cinematography

Kris Malkiewicz

3.91

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Transform Your Habits

Black River Orchard

Chuck Wendig

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Ferryman

Justin Cronin

3.93

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Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

Nick Harkaway

4.03

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