Here is a tour through the whole progress of making a film, from script writing and preproduction through its appearance as a finished work. Veteran Hollywood director Dmytryk demonstrates the necessary versatility of the film director, who must be expert in a remarkable variety of crafts. This is an entertaining and very readable behind-the-scenes introduction to the art form of the 20th century.

On Screen Directing

DMYTRYK, EDWARD

Humor & Entertainment

Focal Pr

This book is a collaboration and a lively dialogue between husband-director and wife-actress about screen acting. Informational and anecdotal in style, is will be of interest to aspiring actors as well as filmmakers, students, and film enthusiasts.

On Screen Acting

J.P.

Movies

Loaded with practical information, including an extensive discussion of adaptation, an obvious but often ignored subject in most screen writing books.

On Screen Writing

Focal Press

On Filmmaking

Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Holllywood Ten

In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee rudely interrupted the successful career and life of Edward Dmytryk, citing him with contempt of Congress. As a result, Dmytryk was fired by RKO and spent three years in England before returning to the United States to serve a six-month jail sentence and undergo a second round of hearings, during which he recanted and provided evidence against several of his former colleagues.
In this personal and perceptive book, Dmytryk sharply chronicles the history of a particularly turbulent era in American political life while examining his own life before and after the events universally called the witch hunts. He details his brief membership in the Communist Party of America, explaining his initial commitment to what he perceived as communist ideals of civil liberties, economic justice, and antifacism, followed by his eventual disillusionment with the party as itbetrayed those ideals. He goes on to provide a fair assessment of what then happened to him and the effect it had on the rest of his life.
Dmytryk describes the activities, prejudices, and personal behaviors of all the parties enmeshed in the congressional hearings on communism in Hollywood. His reactions to other members of the Hollywood Ten and his recollection of conversations with them lend his book an immediacy that is not only informative but also absorbing. Most importantly, he does not uphold an ideology but rather presents the events as he perceived them, understood them, and responded to them. Dmytryk’s account is characterized by an openness born of a mature awareness of personal trial as history.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Southern Illinois University Press

Edward Dmytryk"It's a Hell of a Life"A Hollywood Memoir1978 Copyright by Edward DmytrykISBN: 081290785x

It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living

Times Books

On Film Editing explains, in simple terms, the principles of film editing, using examples and anecdotes. Written in an informal "how-to-do-it" style, renowned director Edward Dmytyrk shares his expertise and experience in film editing in an anecdotal and philosophical way. In On Film Editing, Dmytryk contends that many technicians and professionals on the film crew-- from the cameraman and his assistants to the producer and director-- must understand film editing to produce a truly polished work. In this book he explains in layman's terms the principles of film editing, using examples and anecdotes from almost five decades in the film industry.

On Film Editing

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Routledge

Cinema: Concept & Practice: Concept & Practice (Edward Dmytryk: On Filmmaking)

In this unique study of the process of filmmaking, director Edward Dmytryk blends abstract film theory and the practical realities of feature film production to provide an artful and elegant analysis of the conceptual foundations of filmmaking and film studies. Dmytryk explores the technical principles underlying the craft of filmmaking and how their use is effective in developing the viewer’s involvement in the cinematic narrative.   Originally published in 1988, this reissue of Dmytryk’s classic book includes a new critical introduction by Joe McElhaney.

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On Screen Directing

On Screen Acting

On Screen Writing

On Filmmaking

Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Holllywood Ten

Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Holllywood Ten

It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living

On Film Editing

Cinema: Concept & Practice: Concept & Practice (Edward Dmytryk: On Filmmaking)

Cinema: Concept & Practice: Concept & Practice (Edward Dmytryk: On Filmmaking)