Scott Shaw

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Scott Shaw (born 23 September 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author, martial artist, and filmmaker. [1]

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Career

Scott Shaw is an advanced martial artist. [2] [3] [4]

He has written a number of articles and books on the martial arts and on Zen Buddhism and eastern philosophy. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Shaw is an active actor and filmmaker. [10] [11] [12] In collaboration with American filmmaker Donald G. Jackson he created a style of filmmaking where no screenplay and scripts are used in the creation of a movie. [13] He titled this style of filmmaking, "Zen Filmmaking." [14] [15] [16]

Works

Partial bibliography

Partial filmography

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References

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  2. ↑ "Scott Shaw". Black Belt Magazine . Archived from the original on 2 January 2010.
  3. ↑ "Scott Shaw Biography". Martial Info.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  4. ↑ "Scott Shaw Biography". IT eBooks. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  5. ↑ "Scott Shaw at Simon and Schuster". Simon & Schuster . Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "Scott Shaw No Butts About It". Publishers Weekly .
  7. ↑ "Taekwondo Basics Scott Shaw". Tuttle Publishing . Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  8. ↑ "Scott Shaw". Scribd . Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  9. ↑ "Scott Shaw Biography". It eBooks. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  10. ↑ "Scott Shaw". AllMovie . Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  11. ↑ "Scott Shaw". Filmow. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  12. ↑ Singer, Michael (2002). Film Directors: A Complete Guide. Lone Eagle Publishing Company. p. 345. ISBN   9781580650434.
  13. ↑ "Legacy of a B-movie Artist". Itawamba County Times. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  14. ↑ "Scott Shaw and the Art of Zen Filmmaking". Kansai Time Out Magazine. January 2008.
  15. ↑ "Scott Shaw: The reason I created Zen Filmmaking was to help filmmakers actually get their films made". BZ Film.com. 20 September 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  16. ↑ Adams, Michael (2010). Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies: A Film Critic's Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made. HarperCollins. pp. 301–302. ISBN   9780061806292.
  17. ↑ "Samurai Vampire Bikers From Hell". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 April 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  18. ↑ "Samurai Vampire Bikers From Hell". Movie Meter. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
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