Make Film History: Rewrite, Reshoot, and Recut the World's Greatest Films - Paperback

by Gerst Robert (Author)

Make Film History is both a book and a hands-on website. The book describes crucial moments when movies fundamentally changed. It explains how yesterday's great filmmakers live on today in contemporary films. On the website, simple hands-on exercises put you in the place of (or next to) great filmmakers as they solved filmmaking problems. You watch -- or second-guess -- or do it yourself -- as the building blocks of movies emerge. Make Film History! is for every movie lover who has ever asked, "How did they do that?" or ever said, "I'd like to make a movie, too!"

Author Biography

Robert Gerst, Ph.D., chairs the Liberal Arts Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. He has taught film aesthetics and film history to thousands of designers, artists, and young filmmakers in North America and, in online courses at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, to film students around the world. A veteran teacher who first cut movies standing at a Moviola, he brings a digital filmmaker perspective to the history of the movies.