Cutting rhythms: intuitive film editing

CHAPTER 8 Event Rhythm; First Scenes; Dramatic Questions; Structures as Event Patterns; Energy, Pace, and Timing; Creating Structure and Rhythm Simultaneously; Real Events v. Fictional Events; Reintegrating Rhythms; Case Study: The Godfather; Case Study: Goodfellas; Summary; CHAPTER 9 Style; Thematic Montage; Continuity Cutting; Points along the Spectrum from Thematic Montage to Continuity Cutting; Collision; Linkage; Points along the Spectrum from Collision to Linkage; Style Case Studies; Contemporary Style: After the New Wave; Summary; CHAPTER 10 Devices; Parallel Action.

Includes index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 Rhythmic Intuition; Intuitive Thinking; Movement and Intuition; Rhythm is Made of Movement; Noticing Movement as Rhythm; Feeling Movement's Rhythmic Potential; Empathy with Movement: Experience, Body, and Brain; Being Rhythm and Thinking Rhythmically; Summary; CHAPTER 2 Editing as Choreography; Shifting the Discussion from Music to Movement; Pulse; Movement Phrases; Why Bother with Phrasing?; Phrasing Considerations; Summary.

CHAPTER 3 Timing, Pacing, and Trajectory PhrasingTiming; Pacing; Trajectory Phrasing; Summary; CHAPTER 4 Tension, Release, and Synchronization; Tension and Release; Synchronization; Case Study in Tension, Release, and Synchronization: Broadcast News; Summary; CHAPTER 5 Physical, Emotional, and Event Rhythms; Three Kinds of Movement; CHAPTER 6 Physical Rhythm; Rechoreographing; Physical Storytelling; Dancing Edits; Singing the Rhythm; Case Study: "Now" Scene from Thursday's Fictions; Summary; CHAPTER 7 Emotional Rhythm; Prepare, Action, Rest; The Actor's Actions; Beats; Case Study: The Hours.

Parallel Action Case StudiesSlo…