This comprehensive examination of the film-editor's craft traces the development of editing from the primitive forms of early cinema through the upheavals caused by the advent of sound. Don Fairservice explores the challenges to convention that began in the 1960s and which continue to the present day. New digital technologies and the dominance of the moving image have produced a radical rewriting of the rules of audio-visual address. This detailed study outlines a fascinating history, and presents the "how's" and "why's" of film editing, and its complexities in our modern age.
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"It offers many insights into silent film editing, as well as the editing of classic Hollywood pictures and some contemporary works." --American Cinematographer
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Don Fairservice is an award-winning freelance film editor who has taught at the National Film and Television School and the Northern School of Film and Television in Leeds.
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What follows is about looking at films in a way which is unusual. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
scripted intention, scene dissection, closer framing, woman gangster, continuity cinema, wider framing, single continuity, incoming shot, editing principles, structuring methods, editing methods, camera positioning, action matching, structuring practices, editing practice, filmed material, trick films, cut footage, sound version, presentational form, silent version, filmmaking practice, synchronous sound, frame right, film editing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, First World War, Moulin Rouge, The Great Train Robbery, The Jazz Singer, Barry Salt, Karl Brown, Ralph Ince, Wong Kar-Wai, Breaking the Waves, Jane Ballinger, Mary Carter, Daring Daylight Burglary, Kevin Brownlow, Lillian Gish, Lost Girl, United States, William Hornbeck, Jeanne Ney, Saraswami Giri, The Lonely Villa, Warner Bros, American Fireman, Don Juan, Louise Brooks New!
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What follows is about looking at films in a way which is unusual. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
scripted intention, scene dissection, closer framing, woman gangster, continuity cinema, wider framing, single continuity, incoming shot, editing principles, structuring methods, editing methods, camera positioning, action matching, structuring practices, editing practice, filmed material, trick films, cut footage, sound version, presentational form, silent version, filmmaking practice, synchronous sound, frame right, film editing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, First World War, Moulin Rouge, The Great Train Robbery, The Jazz Singer, Barry Salt, Karl Brown, Ralph Ince, Wong Kar-Wai, Breaking the Waves, Jane Ballinger, Mary Carter, Daring Daylight Burglary, Kevin Brownlow, Lillian Gish, Lost Girl, United States, William Hornbeck, Jeanne Ney, Saraswami Giri, The Lonely Villa, Warner Bros, American Fireman, Don Juan, Louise Brooks New!
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- The Birth of a Nation: D. W. Griffith, director (Rutgers Films in Print) by Robert Lang on 10 pages
- Breaking the Waves by Lars Von Trier on 4 pages
- Film Form: Essays in Film Theory by Sergei Eisenstein on 4 pages
- The Story of Modern Art by Norbert Lynton on 4 pages
- Moment of Cubism and Other Essays by John Berger on page 112, page 114, and Back Matter
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