Cinematic Editing
Editing as the temporal and conceptual organization of shots, not just their succession.
Editing appears here as more than continuity management or pace. Cinematic Editing: A Viewer’s Guide treats the cut as a way of organizing relation: shots can preserve motion, collide graphically, withhold information, or create gaps that the viewer must complete. Read next to Everything You Want to Know About Film Studies, the point becomes methodological as well as descriptive.
Editing belongs beside perception and worlding because a film world is not built only inside shots. It is also built across the intervals that join and separate them, and that is where the viewer’s labor becomes visible.
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