April 2013
Beginner
512 pages
16h
English
It has been half a century since Karel Reisz, working with a British Film Academy committee, wrote The Technique of Film Editing. Much has happened in those 50 years. Television is pervasive in its presence and its influence, and cinema, no longer in decline because of television, is more influential than ever. The videocassette recorder (VCR) has made movies, old and new, accessible, available, and ripe for rediscovery by another generation. The director is king, and film is more international than ever.
In 1953, Reisz could not foresee these changes, but he did demonstrate that the process of film editing is a seminal ...