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Presented below are most of the books mentioned in the bibliographies of Making Documentary Films and Videos and my other books, along with some other titles of interest to filmmakers. The books are listed alphabetically by title. (For a traditional bibliography listed by author, GO HERE.

You can learn more about any of these books by clicking on the cover, and if you wish, you can conveniently order any book from Amazon.com, usually at a substantial discount from the cover price.

Another Planet
Another Planet
by Elinor Burkett
This is simply the best book I've read in years about how schools really work and why "educators" so often get it wrong. (New York: HarperCollins, 2001.)
The Art of Film Funding
The Art of Film Funding
by Carole Lee Dean
Read it through once to get the big picture, then keep it on your bedside stand and read a few pages every night.  (Studio City, CA. Michael Wiese Productions, 2007.)
Documentary Storytelling
Documentary Storytelling
by Sheila Curran Bernard
Storytelling is the way you hold the viewer's interest while you present the facts your documnetary deals with. 
(Burlington, MA: Focal Press, 2004, 2007.)
The iFilm Digital Video Filmmaker's Handbook
The ifilm Digital Video Filmmaker’s Handbook
by Maxie D. Collier

Getting a handle on using digital video technology to make films. 
(Hollywood: Lone Eagle Publishing Company, 2001.)

Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
by
Syd Field
This is one of the two or three best books ever on writing a screenplay.  (New York: Dell Publishing, 2005.)
 

Geertz, Clifford. “Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cockfight” in The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books, 1973.

Hampe, Barry. Video Scriptwriting: How to Write for the $4 Billion Commercial Video Market. New York: Plume/Penguin, 1993.

Kelly, Walt. Pogo, vol. 2. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 1994.

Konigsberg, Ira. The Complete Film Dictionary. New York: Meridian/Penguin Books, 1987, 1989.

Levitt, Steven D., and Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. New York: William Morrow, 2005.

Lipton, Lenny. Independent Filmmaking, rev. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983.

Loewen, James. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York: Touchstone, 1996.

Lomborg, Bjorn, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Michaels, Patrick C. Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2004.

Newton, Dale and John Gaspard, Digital Filmmaking 101: An Essential Guide to Producing Low-Budget Movies. Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions, 2001

O’Connell, P.J. Robert Drew and the Development of Cinema Vérité in America. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.

Pryluck, Calvin. “Ultimately We Are All Outsiders: The Ethics of Documentary Filming,” Journal of the University Film Association 28, no. 1 (Winter 1976) repr. in Alan Rosenthal, ed., New Challenges to Documentary.

Rabinger, Michael. Directing the Documentary, 4th ed. New York: Focal Press, 2004.

Rivoli, Pietra. Travels of a T-Shirt in a Global Economy. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.

Rosenthal, Alan. New Challenges to Documentary. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

––––The New Documentary in Action: A Casebook in Film Making. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.

––––Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films. 3rd ed. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.

Seger, Linda. Creating Unforgettable Characters. New York: Owl/Henry Holt, 1990.

––––Making a Good Script Great. 2nd ed. Hollywood: Samuel French Trade, 1987, 1994.

Singleton, Ralph S. Filmmaker’s Dictionary. Hollywood: Lone Eagle Publishing, 1986, 2000.

Sowell, Thomas. Basic Economics. New York: Basic Books, 2003.

Walter, Richard. Screenwriting: The Art, Craft and Business of Film and Television Writing. New York: Plume/New American Library, 1988.

Weart, Spencer R. The Discovery of Global Warming. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Worth, Sol, and John Adair. Through Navajo Eyes; An Exploration in Film Communication and Anthropology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1972.

Zettl, Herbert, Television Production Handbook. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company. (Current edition.)

––––Video Basics. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company. (Current edition.)



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