TABLE OF CONTENTS: 

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

RESOURCES:
YOUTUBE CHANNELS:
BOOKS:
ACTING:
BIOGRAPHIES / AUTOBIOGRAPHIES:
SOUND & FILM MUSIC:
ESSAYS & OTHER THEORETICAL WORKS:
PHOTOGRAPHY & SHOOTING:
HISTORY OF FILM:
HISTORY OF ART:
COLOR:
FILM CRITICISM:
FILM EDITING:
OTHER TECHNICALITIES:
DIRECTING & BASIC FILM KNOWLEDGE:
DRAWING & PAINTING:
SCREENWRITING:
DICTIONARIES / LEXICONS / ENCYCLOPEDIAS:
LIGHTING:
THEMATIC WORKS & OTHER MONOGRAPHS:
THEORY OF FILM:
INTERVIEWS:
WEBSITES:
OTHER RESOURCES:
PODCASTS:
YT PLAYLISTS & SPECIFIC VIDEOS:
ESSAYS / ARTICLES / STUDIES:
CONTRIBUTORS:

RESOURCES: 
 
YOUTUBE CHANNELS: 

1. Amor Sciendi
2. Be Kind Rewind
3. Behind the Curtain
4. Cinema Tyler
5. Essential Films
6. Every Frame a Painting
 7. Eyes On Cinema
8. Fandor
9. Film-Drunk Love
10. Filmmaker IQ
11. KQED Art School
12. Karsten Runquist
13. Lessons from the Screenplay
14. Like Stories of Old
15. Little Art Talks
16. MUST SEE FILMS
17. Nerdwriter1
18. Now You See It
19. PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN
20. RocketJump Film School
21. Screened
22. Skazany na film​ ​(PL)
23. Storytellers
24. The Art Assignment
25. The Cinema Cartography
26. The Closer Look
27. The Film Look
28. The Royal Ocean Film Society
29. The Solomon Society
30. The Take
31. This Guy Edits
32. Vugar Efendi
33. wolfcrow

BOOKS: 

ACTING: 

1. Acting for the Camera​ by Tony Barr

2. A Practical Handbook for the Actor​ by Melissa Bruder
3. Michael Caine - Acting in Film​ ​by Michael Cain
4. Respect for Acting​ by Uta Hagen
5. Sanford Meisner on Acting​ by Sanford Meisner

BIOGRAPHIES / AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: 

1. A Life in Movies​ ​by Michael Powell

2. Double Vision: My Life in Film​ ​by Andrzej Wajda
3. Fellini​ ​by Maria Kornatowska​ ​(PL)
4. Godard - Pasaże​ by Paweł Mościcki (PL)
5. Hitchcock: A Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock​ ​by Francois Truffaut
6. My Last Breath​ by Luis Bunuel
 7. Notes On The Cinematograph​ ​by Bresson Robert
8. Sculpting In Time​ ​by Andrei Tarkovsky
9. Something Like an Autobiography​ ​by Akira Kurosawa
10. The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography​ ​by Ingmar Bergman

SOUND & FILM MUSIC: 

1. 100 Modern Soundtracks​ by Philip Brophy

2. Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen​ by Michel Chion
3. Film, a Sound Art​ ​by Michel Chion

ESSAYS & OTHER THEORETICAL WORKS: 

1. Against Interpretation: And Other Essays​ ​by Susan Sontag

2. Antropologia postaci w dziele filmowym​ ​by Seweryn Kuśmierczyk​ ​(PL)
3. Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film​ ​by Giuliana Bruno
4. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography​ ​by Roland Barthes
5. Eros i film​ ​by Maria Kornatowska​ ​(PL)
6. Film as a Subversive Art​ ​by Amos Vogel
7. Film Form: Essays in Film Theory​ by Sergei Eisenstein
8. On Photography​ ​by Susan Sontag
9. Po ludobójstwie. Eseje o języku, polityce i kinie​ by Pier Paolo Pasolini​ ​(PL)
10. Styles of Radical Will​ ​by Susan Sontag
11. Tarkovsky: Films, Stills, Polaroids & Writings​ ​by Andriej Tarkovski
12. The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination​ by
Jean-Paul Sartre
13. Visual and Other Pleasures​ ​by Laura Mulvey
14. Ways of Seeing​ by John Berger
15. What is cinema? v.1​ ​by Andre Bazin
16. What is cinema? v.2​ ​by Andre Bazin
17. X muza​ ​by Karol Irzykowski​ ​(PL)

PHOTOGRAPHY & SHOOTING: 

1. Fundamentals of Photography​ by Tom Ang

2. How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck: Advice to Make Any Amateur Look Like
a Pro​ by Steve Stockman
3. Master Shots Vol. 1​ ​by Christopher Kenworthy
4. Master Shots Vol. 2​ ​by Christopher Kenworthy
5. Master Shots Vol. 3​ ​by Christopher Kenworthy
6. Photographer's Eye​ ​by Michael Freeman
7. Picture Perfect Posing: Practicing the Art of Posing for Photographers and
Models​ ​by Roberto Valenzuela
8. Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Part 1​ by Scott Kelby
9. Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Part 2​ by Scott Kelby
10. Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Part 3​ by Scott Kelby
 11. Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Part 4​ by Scott Kelby
12. Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Part 5​ by Scott Kelby
13. The Camera​ ​by Ansel Adams
14. The filmmaker's eye​ ​by Gustavo Mercado
15. The Flash Book​ by Scott Kelby
16. The Negative​ ​by Ansel Adams
17. The Photograph - Composition and Color Design​ ​by Harald Mante
18. The Photographer's Mind​ by Michael Freeman
19. Understanding Exposure​ ​by Bryan Peterson
20. Understanding Photography​ ​by Sean T. McHugh

HISTORY OF FILM: 

1. A History of Narrative Film​ by David Cook

2. Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis​ ​by Barry Salt
3. Historia filmu : od Edisona do Nolana​ ​by Rafał Syska​ ​(PL)
4. Historia kina. Tom 1. Kino nieme​ ​by Tadeusz Lubelski​ ​(PL)
5. Historia kina. Tom 2. Kino klasyczne​ by Tadeusz Lubelski​ ​(PL)
6. Historia kina. Tom 3. Kino epoki nowofalowej​ ​by Tadeusz Lubelski​ ​(PL)
7. Historia kina. Tom 4. Kino końca wieku​ ​by Tadeusz Lubelski​ ​(PL)
8. History of Film​ ​by Parkinson David
9. The Oxford History of World Cinema​ ​by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

HISTORY OF ART: 

1. A Brief History of Painting​ by Roy Bolton

2. Art: The Whole Story​ ​by Stephen Farthing and Richard Cork
3. A World History of Art​ ​by Hugh Honour
4. History of Art History​ by Wood Christopher
5. History of the Theatre​ ​by Oscar Brockett
6. Meggs' History of Graphic Design​ by Philip B. Meggs
7. Photography: The Definitive Visual History​ ​by Tom Ang
8. Sculpture. From Antiquity to the Present Day​ by TASCHEN
9. The Photography Book​ by Ian Jeffrey
10. The Story of Art​ ​by E.H. Gombrich
11. Understanding Art​ by Stephen Little
12. World History of Photography​ ​by Naomi Rosenblum

COLOR: 

1. Color by Betty Edwards: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors​ by

Betty Edwards
2. Color Theory: An essential guide to color-from basic principles to practical
applications​ by Patti Mollica
3. If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die​ ​by Patti Bellatoni
4. Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition​ by Josef Albers
 5. The Secret Lives of Color​ by Kassia St Clair

FILM CRITICISM: 

1. Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies​ by James Agee

2. Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism​ ​by Jonathan Rosenbaum
3. Reeling​ ​by Pauline Kael
4. The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium​ ​by Gilberto Perez
5. Writing About Movies​ by Karen Gocsik

FILM EDITING: 

1. Cut to the Chase​ ​by and Sam O'Steen

2. In the Blink of an Eye​ ​by Walter Murch
3. The Invisible Cut​ ​by​ ​Bobbie O'Steen
4. The Technique of Film Editing​ ​by Karel Reisz
5. When the shooting stops, the cutting begins​ ​by Ralph Rosenblum

OTHER TECHNICALITIES: 

1. Graphic Design: The New Basics​ by Ellen Lupton

2. The Grip Book: The Studio Grip’s Essential Guide​ by Michael Uva
3. Thinking with type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
by Ellen Lupton

DIRECTING & BASIC FILM KNOWLEDGE: 

1. Directing: Film Techniques & Aesthetics​ by Michael Rabiger

2. Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television​ by
Judith Weston
3. Film Directing: Shot by Shot​ by Steve D. Katz
4. Film Studies: The Basics​ ​by Amy Villarejo
5. Grammar of the Film Language​ ​by Daniel Arijon
6. Making Movies​ ​by Sidney Lumet
7. On Directing Film​ ​by David Mamet
8. On Film-making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director​ ​by Alexander
Mackendrick
9. Rebel Without a Crew​ by Robert Rodriguez
10. Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to
Make Movies That Matter​ ​by Christine Vachon
11. The Cinema Book​ ​by Pam Cook
12. The Film Director's Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques​ by
Judith Weston
13. The Filmmaker's Handbook​ by S. Ascher & E. Pincus
 14. The Five C's of Cinematography: Motion Picture Filming Techniques​ by Joseph
V Mascelli
15. Theory of Film Practice​ ​by Noel Burch

DRAWING & PAINTING: 

1. Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting​ by John F. Carlson

2. Drawing Course​ ​by Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome
3. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain​ ​by Betty Edwards
4. Drawing the Head and Hands​ by Andrew Loomis
5. Figure Drawing for All It's Worth​ by Andrew Loomis
6. How to Draw What You See​ by Rudy De Reyna
7. Keys to Drawing​ by Bert Dodson
8. Lessons in Classical Drawing: Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier​ by
Juliette Aristides
9. Lessons in Classical Painting: Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier​ by
Juliette Aristides
10. Light, Shade and Shadow​ by E. L. Koller
11. Oil Painting Techniques and Materials​ by Harold Speed
12. Perspective Made Easy​ by Ernest R. Norling
13. The natural way to draw​ ​by Kimon Nicolaïdes
14. The Practice and Science of Drawing​ by Harold Speed

SCREENWRITING: 

1. Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story

Structure​ by K.M.Weiland
2. Save the Cat​ by Blake Snyder
3. Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting​ by Syd Field
4. Screenwriter's Bible​ ​by David Trottier
5. Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting​ by
Robert McKee
6. The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller​ by John Truby
7. The Art of Dramatic Writing​ ​by Lajos Egri
8. The Hollywood Standard​ ​by Christopher Riley
9. The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers​ ​by Christopher Vogler

DICTIONARIES / LEXICONS / ENCYCLOPEDIAS: 

1. Dictionary of Film Terms: The Aesthetic Companion to Film Art​ ​by Frank Beaver
2. Encyclopedia of Chinese Film​ ​by Zhiwei Xiao
3. The Film Encyclopedia 7th Edition: The Complete Guide to Film and the Film
Industry​ by Ephraim Katz
4. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film​ ​by David Thomson
5. The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols​ ​by Alain Gheerbrant
6. The Penguin Dictionary of the Theatre​ ​by Jonathan Law
LIGHTING: 

1. Film Lighting: Talks with Hollywood's Cinematographers and Gaffers​ by Kris

Malkiewicz
2. Lighting for Cinematography​ by David Landau
3. Light-Science and Magic​ ​by Fil Hunter
4. Painting With Light​ ​by John Alton
5. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook: Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and
Electrical Distribution​ ​by Harry Box

THEMATIC WORKS & OTHER MONOGRAPHS: 

1. A Hundred Years of Japanese Film​ ​by Donald Richie

2. Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition​ ​by Stephen Teo
3. Europejskie kino gatunków. Tom 1​ by Piotr Kletowski​ ​(PL)
4. Europejskie kino gatunków. Tom 2​ ​by Piotr Kletowski and Maciej Pepliński​ ​(PL)
5. Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy​ ​by Robert B. Pippin
6. Filmowy neomodernizm​ ​by Rafał Syska​ ​(PL)
7. Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film
thatSank United Artists​ ​by Steven Bach
8. Formuły duchowości w kinie najnowszym​ ​by Magdalena Kempna-Pieniążek​ ​(PL)
9. Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society​ ​by Richard Dyer
10. Kino stylu zerowego, z zagadnień estetyki filmu fabularnego​ ​by Mirosław
Przylipiak​ ​(PL)
11. Kultura wizualna w Polsce. Tom 1: Fragmenty​ ​by Iwona Kurz​ ​(PL)
12. Made in Hong Kong. Kino czasu przemian​ ​by Jagoda Murczyńska​ ​(PL)
13. Midnight movies. Seans o północy​ ​by J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum
14. Mistrzowie kina amerykańskiego: Bunt i nostalgia​ by Łukasz Plesnar and Rafał
Syska​ ​(PL)
15. Mistrzowie kina amerykańskiego: Klasycy​ by Łukasz Plesnar and Rafał Syska
(PL)
16. Mistrzowie kina amerykańskiego: Współczesność​ ​by Łukasz Plesnar and Rafał
Syska​ ​(PL)
17. More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts​ ​by James Naremore
18. Picture​ ​by Lillian Ross
19. Polska szkoła filmowa​ ​by Marek Hendrykowski​ ​(PL)
20. Surrealism and Cinema​ ​by Michael Richardson
21. The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era​ ​by Thomas
Schatz
22. The Parade's Gone By…​ ​by Kevin Brownlow
23. Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer​ ​by Paul Schrader

THEORY OF FILM: 

1. Analiza filmu​ ​by Jacques Aumont & Michel Marie​ ​(PL)

 2. Antropologia filmu​ ​by Aleksander Jackiewicz​ ​(PL)
3. Cinema 1: The Movement Image​ ​by Gilles Deleuze
4. Cinema 2: The Time Image​ ​by Gilles Deleuze
5. Fetishism and Curiosity: Cinema and the Mind's Eye​ by Laura Mulvey
6. Film and Phenomenology: Towards a Realist Theory of Cinematic
Representation​ ​by Allan Casebier
7. Film Art: An Introduction​ ​by David Bordwell
8. Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form​ ​by Robert B. Pippin
9. Film i rzeczywistość​ ​by Andre Bazin​ ​(PL)
10. Film jest snem​ ​by Konrad Eberhardt​ ​(PL)
11. Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema​ ​by Christian Metz
12. Films And Feelings​ by Raymond Durgnat
13. Historia myśli filmowej. Podręcznik​ ​by Alicja Helman and Jacek Ostaszewski​ ​(PL)
14. Język filmu​ ​by Jerzy Płażewski​ ​(PL)
15. Looking at Movies​ by Richard Barsam
16. On the History of Film Style​ by David Bordwell
17. Podstawy wiedzy o filmie​ ​by Alicja Helman​ ​and Andrzej Pitrus​ ​(PL)
18. Signs and Meaning in the Cinema​ ​by Peter Wollen
19. The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema​ ​by Jean Mitry
20. The elements of cinema​ ​by Stefan Sharff
21. The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema​ ​by Christian Metz
22. Theory of Film​ by Siegfried Kracauer
23. The Philosophy of Horror​ ​by Noel Carroll

INTERVIEWS: 

1. True Fiction Pictures and Possible Films​ ​by Hal Hartley

2. Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors​ ​by Peter
Bogdanovich

WEBSITES: 

1. http://filmcourage.com/blog/
2. https://ascmag.com/blog
3. https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Filmmaking
4. https://filmcameracourse.wordpress.com/
5. https://filmlifestyle.com/category/filmmaking/
6. https://filmmakeriq.com/all-content/?orderby=view
7. https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/
8. https://nofilmschool.com/
9. https://stephenfollows.com/
10. https://vashivisuals.com/blog/
11. https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm
12. https://www.filmmakingstuff.com/filmmaking/
13. https://www.filmriot.com/blog/
14. https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/
 15. https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/
16. https://www.theblackandblue.com/blog/

OTHER RESOURCES: 

1. MasterClass - ​A Meeting with Werner Herzog

2. MasterClass - ​David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film
3. MasterClass - ​Hellen Mirrern Teaches Acting
4. MasterClass - ​Margaret Atwood Teaches Creative Writing
5. MasterClass - ​Martin Scorsese Teaches Filmmaking
6. MasterClass - ​Natalie Portman Teaches Acting
7. MasterClass - ​Samuel L. Jackson Teaches Acting

PODCASTS: 

1. Blank Check Podcast

2. How Did This Get Made?
3. SpoilerMaster – podcast do słuchania po seansie​ (PL)
4. The Rewatchables

YT PLAYLISTS & SPECIFIC VIDEOS: 

1. KOGONADA
2. Michael Caine Teaches Acting In Film

ESSAYS / ARTICLES / STUDIES: 

1. Esej audiowizualny – w stronę historii​ by Bartosz Zając (PL)

2. The Death of the Author​ by Roland Barthes

CONTRIBUTORS: 

from filmweb.pl: @m__k / @inheracil / @jos_fw / @Mister M. / @Murmure /

@nana_kleinfrankenheim / @newland_archer / @Noicerr / @Number6 / @Orinow /
@rotusek / @The_Carnival_Is_Over / @Zaratustra_2

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