{"id":11507,"count":21,"description":"We have lots of cinema and film-related interviews recommending a wide range of books from the history of cinema to manuals on how to write screenplays and direct.\r\n\r\nDarren Aronofsky, the Oscar-nominated director of Black Swan<\/em>, chooses his best books on making movies<\/a> and screenwriter and novelist Frank Cottrell Boyce talks about filmmaking<\/a> and argues that good filmmaking springs from having a broad cultural frame of reference beyond cinema.\r\n\r\nThe writer Barry Forshaw talks about Film Noir<\/a> and the film critic and former professor of film studies at Columbia, Andrew Sarris, looks at film criticism<\/a>.\u00a0 Ian Christie, professor of film and media history at Birkbeck College London, chooses his best books on Russian cinema<\/a> and Brian Macfarlane, editor of the Encyclopaedia of British Film<\/em>, his on British cinema<\/a>.\u00a0 Brian Shoesmith, professor at the University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh, looks at Indian Film<\/a> and Guardian <\/em>columnist Marina Hyde at Hollywood<\/a>.\u00a0 Meanwhile screenwriting guru Richard Walter talks screenwriting<\/a>, recommending Aristotle\u2019s Poetics <\/em>as essential reading, and director of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, <\/em>Matt Whitecross, discusses film directing<\/a>.\r\n\r\nWe also have a section on books that have been made into movies or Netflix shows<\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/music-and-drama\/film-cinema-tv\/","name":"Film, Cinema & TV","slug":"film-cinema-tv","taxonomy":"category","parent":11193,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11193"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11507"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11507"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}