Cutting Rhythms

Acknowledgments

This book is based on the doctoral thesis Cutting Rhythms: Ideas about the Shaping of Rhythm in Film Editing, by Dr Karen Pearlman, University of Technology, Sydney, 2006.

An earlier version of Chapter 1 of this book was published as “The Rhythm of Thinking—speculations on how an editor shapes the rhythm of a film,” in a special feature section on editing in Metro Magazine, a publication of the Australian Teachers of Media, No. 141, pp. 112–116, 2004.

Sections of the thesis and Thursday's Fictions were presented at Dance, Corporeality, the Body and Performance Practices, a conference for researchers at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, on November 14, 2003, and at Cinemoves—a Forum for Dance on Film at the Sydney Dance ...