What to Read After On Directing Film
Readers who loved On Directing Film by David Mamet keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where On Directing Film is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after On Directing Film
Making Movies
Directing Actors
In the Blink of an Eye
Rebel Without a Crew
Notes on the Cinematographer (Sun and Moon Classics)
The Conversations
The Five C's of Cinematography
The Film Director's Intuition
Moviemakers' Master Class
Cinematic Motion
Kazan on Directing
Thinking Like a Director
Three Uses of the Knife
Story
True and False
Bambi vs. Godzilla
Adventures in the Screen Trade
Speed the Plow (L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection)
Screenplay
Writing in Restaurants
Scorsese on Scorsese
Which Lie Did I Tell?
Directing
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