Editing and Montage in International Film and Video

10RESEARCH ON EDITING AND ITS EFFECTS

 

 

In this last chapter we review research being carried out on editing and its effects. As outlined in our theoretical framework, the interest of cognitive perception psychologists in these issues gained momentum at the end of the 1970s as a result of the publication of the first works by Julian Hochberg (Hochberg and Brooks 1978). Although this area is very limited, it has yielded significant results in terms of determining the relationship between the so-called rules of continuity and the levels of cognitive processing in the receiver (Tommasi and Actis 1998, 1999; d’Ydewalle et al. 1998; d’Ydewalle and Vanderbecken 1990). More recently, studies by Tim Smith and Mark Seddon have focused on linking ...