If you have passionately followed with the pursuit of how stories are told and, how film-making happens; this book is for you. I do have other books on cinema that are all-time favorites, but this one is special.
Even on those days, when I am not interested to dig deeper down into the cinematic theories and jargon, and just want to have a casual page-turner on my desk, this James Monaco classic is a great savior. I own a hard copy of this book from an edition which (I think) has a lesser influence from the YouTube phenomena (as in, the digital leverage). And, I still find this utterly relevant.
I think we are thriving in an ecosystem that has (at least) double leverage. We have an entrepreneurial setup in a creator-heavy environment. The relevance to this context is that nearly through the germination of cinema and other story-telling histories; we learn the same rules of innovations, risk management, and story-telling.
The time shift from the reels to the bytes has been enormous, and in contrast, the stickiness of emotion and drama in our stories has been always the same.
So classics remain classics!
But, hey, I have not tried to elucidate any part of the book, or even attempted at a loose trailer of the same. I think it will be both callous and audacious to even try. But, if you are too tired of those algorithmic recommendations of some random vlog on cinema. Go turn off the data and flip the pages of this one, for a change.