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Break the Frame

Break the Frame is a collection of 24 career-spanning interviews with America's celebrated, reigning, and rising women filmmakers. Each conversation considers the director's complete filmography as a map of their evolving artistry and evidence of their unassailable contributions to a historically misogynist industry.

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A Chronology of Film: A cultural timeline from the magic lantern to the digital screen

A Chronology of Film presents a fresh perspective on the medium by tracing the complex links between technical innovations, social changes, and artistic interventions in the order that they occurred.

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American Noir Film

A deep dive into classic noir films and how filmmakers today are refreshing and updating the genre for new generations. Whether new to noir films, students of the genre, or long-time fans, readers will be sure to learn what makes this genre so special, discover why filmmakers keep coming back to it, and find a new favorite movie to add to their shelves.

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Clearance and Copyright

This is a guide to almost every conceivable rights issue that filmmakers, videomakers, television producers, and Internet content creators might encounter.

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Documentary Editing

Documentary Editing offers clear and detailed strategies for tackling every stage of the documentary editing process, from organizing raw footage and building select reels to fine cutting and final export. 

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Adobe After Effects: A complete course and compendium of features

This is your guide to editing and enhancing videos in Adobe After Effects. Whether you're animating text or objects, changing a scene's setting, or creating a 3D scene, After Effects is the tool for you--and this book will teach you what you need to know.

Library Database: Computer Science

Spotlight on JSTOR. JSTOR is a key research database for film studies sources.  Use it to search and find full text books and journal articles.

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Check out select streaming videos below from the library's databases. View additional videos from Films on Demand and Academic Video Online

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Vincent Laforet's Directing Motion

Commercial Director and Pulitzer-Prize winning Photographer Vincent Laforet teaches filmmakers of all levels the precise cinematic language of motion, and how to move not only the camera itself, but also the components in your scene in order to bring a richer viewing experience while enhancing the story. This course will give you a solid foundation in camera movement, blocking, lensing, and sequencing, and show you how to direct any crew precisely and effectively to execute your vision.

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Philip Bloom's Cinematic Masterclass

Travel with filmmaker Philip Bloom as he guides you through the art and science of filmmaking, and shares his most important advice for capturing the style of cinematic images that have made him one of the world's most beloved independent filmmakers.

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Art of Film

The Art of Film explores the many layers of the world of filmmaking, exploring styles, themes, eras, genres, studios, partnerships & the many sensibilities that have & continue to shape cinema since it’s beginnings to today. 

The Directors

This series looks at the 20th century’s iconic film directors; the real innovators whose breakthrough direction made film into the movies. Their early lives, often escaping war or poverty found expression in theatre, then film, forming the fundamental art that is cinema.

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Cinema Sound

In this detailed course, seasoned audio guru Mark Edward Lewis guides you through every aspect of sound that you'll ever need to know as a filmmaker. Recording, dialogue, sound effects, foley, ADR, mixing, fixing - it's all here for you to master in the most comprehensive audio-for-film series ever created.

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The Definitive Guide to DaVinci Resolve

The Definitive Guide to DaVinci Resolve is Blackmagic Designʼs official training course for people wanting to get a basic overview of the editing, motion graphics, color correction and audio tools in DaVinci Resolve.

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Other People's Footage: Copyright & Fair Use

Other People’s Footage: Copyright & Fair Use uses on-camera interviews with 19 noted documentarians along with several legal experts to examine the three questions crucial to determining fair use exemptions for documentary filmmakers. The documentary presents illustrative examples from nonfiction films that use pre-existing footage, music and sound from other individuals' creations—without permission or paying fees.

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Becoming Iconic

This documentary examines the process of filmmaking from the ground up through the eyes of top directors as they tell their stories and share their wisdom.