On Directing Film.

MAMET, David.

$400.00

Item Number: 119879

New York: Viking, 1991.

First edition of Mamet’s insightful guide to directing. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “For Glenn – Thank you for your support of my work. I appreciate it very much. David Mamet 27 F. 91 Book Soup.” The recipient, Glenn Goldman founded Book Soup in 1975, an independently owned bookstore on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood specializing in art, music, film, photography, design and fiction. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design Neil Stuart. Back jacket photograph by Mike Hausman.

From his unique perspective as playwright, screenwriter, and director of his own critically acclaimed movies, House of Games and Things Change, David Mamet provides invaluable insights into every aspect of directing - from script to cutting room - to reveal the many tasks directors undertake in reaching their prime objective: presenting a story that will be understood by another and has the power to be both surprising and inevitable at the same time.