Film Editing

Book excerpt: Film Editing provides an introduction to the craft of editing in the non-silent film as an expressive strategy to make meaning rather than a mere technique. The book addresses editing as part of a wider context and as a crucial element of the overarching design and vision of a film, incorporating parameters such as mise-en-scene, framing, sound, genre, history, and performance. By examining a number of mainstream and art films, such as Hitchcock's Rear Window, and Scorsese's Raging Bull, Film Editing seeks to dispel the notion that editing is necessarily polarized as continuity versus discontinuity.