When I was in film school, there probably weren’t 10 books in existence about filmmaking. My focus was screenwriting, and if I recall correctly, there were only two books that had anything to do with the topic: Syd Field’s “Screenplay” and William Goldman’s “Adventures in the Screen Trade,” both of which were relatively recent. Every other text was not actually a book specifically about screenwriting (see: Aristotle’s “Poetics”—about plays—and Lajos Egri’s “The Art of Dramatic Writing”—also about plays).  Today, there are so many books about every aspect of film that there’s even a successful publisher, Michael Wiese Productions, producing exclusively … Continue reading 10 Books Every Aspiring Filmmaker Should Read