The Technique of Film and Video Editing, 5th Edition

 

 

CHAPTER 10

New Challenges to Filmic Narrative Conventions

 

The international advances of the 1950s and the technological experiments in widescreen and documentary techniques provided the context for the influence of television and theatre in the 1960s and 1970s. The sum effect was twofold: to make the flow of talent and creative influence more international than ever and, more important, to signal that innovation, whether its source was new or old, was critical. Indeed, the creative explosion of the 1950s and 1960s was nothing less than a gauntlet: a challenge to the next generation to make artful what was ordinary and to make art from the extraordinary. The result was an explosion of individualistic invention that has had a profound effect ...