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Author Dancyger, Ken.

Title The technique of film and video editing : history, theory, and practice / Ken Dancyger
Edition Fourth edition
Published Burlington, MA : Focal Press, [2007]
©2007

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 MELB  778.535 Dan/Tof 2007  AVAILABLE
Description xxiii, 484 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents I. History of film editing -- 1. The silent period -- 2. The early sound film -- 3. The influence of the documentary -- 4. The influence of the popular arts -- 5. Editors who became directors -- 6. Experiments in editing : Alfred Hitchcock -- 7. New technologies -- 8. International advances -- 9. The influence of television and theatre -- 10. New challenges to filmic narrative conventions -- 11. The MTV influence on editing I -- 12. The MTV influence on editing II -- 13. Changes in pace -- 14. The appropriation of style I : imitation and innovation -- 15. The appropriation of style II : limitation and innovation -- 16. The appropriation of style III : digital reality -- II. Editing for the genre -- 17. Action -- 18. Dialogue -- 19. Comedy -- 20. Documentary -- 21. Imaginative documentary -- 22. Innovations in documentary I -- 23. Innovations in documentary II -- 24. Ideas and sound -- III. Principles of editing -- 25. The picture edit and continuity
26. The picture edit and pace -- 27. The sound edit and clarity -- 28. The sound edit and creative sound -- 29. Innovations of sound -- 30. Nonlinear editing and digital technology I -- 31. Nonlinear editing and digital technology II -- 32. Conclusion
Notes Previous ed.: 2002
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Motion pictures -- Editing.
Video tapes -- Editing.
LC no. 2006030196
ISBN 0240807650 (paperback: alk. paper)
9780240807652 (paperback: alk. paper)