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The Technique of Film and Video Editing, 5th Edition
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The Technique of Film and Video Editing, 5th Edition

by Ken Dancyger
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
16h 43m
English
Focal Press
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CHAPTER 6

Experiments in Editing: Alfred Hitchcock

 

 

Few directors have contributed as much to the mythology of the power of editing as has Alfred Hitchcock. Eisenstein and Pudovkin used their films to work out and illustrate their ideas about editing, but Hitchcock used his films to synthesize the theoretical ideas of others and to deepen the repertoire by showcasing the possibilities of editing. His work embraces the full gamut of editing conceits, from pace to subjective states to ideas about dramatic and real time. This chapter highlights a number of set-pieces that he devoted to these conceits. Before beginning, however, we must acknowledge that Hitchcock may have experimented extensively with editing devices, but he was equally experimental ...

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