Introduction to the Fifth Edition
In this fifth edition of the Technique of Film and Video Editing, I have added a new section called “The Goals of Editing.”
As this book expanded through editions one to four, it became a history of editing as well as a theory-practice book on different genres—documentary for example—as well as different types of sequences—action, dialogue, comedy. Along the way, my students at New York University and in my workshops abroad reminded me that what was being overlooked were the fundamentals, the purposes editing served. An article I wrote for Cineaste on Editing for Subtext pulled into focus what I had been including in my lectures but not highlighting in this book. And so, in this fifth edition I have ...
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