Breaking Through, Selling Out, Dropping Dead and Other Notes on Filmmaking

by William Bayer

Book Overview

(Limelight). "A hip compendium of cinema savvy ... perhaps the most practical battle manual available to the young filmmaker." Newsweek This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879101237
• ISBN13: 9780879101237
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Limelight Editions
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Great Book. A Classic.

Read this book before you even CONSIDER working in the film business. Everything Bayer says is as true today as when he first wrote it. This book belongs in every filmmaker's library.

Breaking Through, Selling Out, Dropping Dead GREAT BOOK

When I read this book in the mid-1970s, it was almost unbelievable to me that the film business, or any business, could operate this way. I still find it hard to believe, but there it is. If you read this book, you'll lose much of the dangerous belief that film is intrinsically art, which most persons have. It will only slow you down, and keep you mystified. Movies are mass-produced entertainment, and this book will tell you how to get a toehold in what must be the most cut-throat business anywhere. If you want in, read this book. If you still want in, you're well on your way.