Filmmaker's Dictionary, 2nd Edition

by Ralph S. Singleton and James A. Conrad

Book Overview

A reference tool, with over 1500 film terms, words, vocabulary, phrases, jargon, language expressions and definitions. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580650228
• ISBN13: 9781580650229
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Lone Eagle
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Incorporates more than five thousand terms

Now in a completely updated and expanded second edition, Filmmaker's Dictionary continues to be the standard industry reference. Ralph Singleton, assisted by James Conrad, incorporates more than five thousand terms, incorporating all of the latest advances in filmmaking, including the advances of digital and technology, and significant changes within the film business over the past few years. Filmmaker's Dictionary is an essential, basic, core reference for any personal, professional, film school, or community library theatre/cinema reference book collection.

Filmmaker`s Dictionary Needs Adding Before Re-Print

One of the most handiest books ever to come out of the movie world. It is for the layman, photographers, the directors, the actors and the scriptwriters. Yet I found several words were not propperly described (like how to avoid Newton Rings, Focus, Why you use Dot, etc.) Other words were omited, like Airiflex, Composition, Contrast, Density, F-system, Key (length of background-film), Outline, Pantomime and many others. I will also suggest that under "Lamps" for instance to name them all, and under "Crew" to give a hieragy, etc. Still a very valuable book by all means.