This chapter focuses on the history and theory of film editing. Early filmmakers moved from real to reel time when they devised cutting to continuity. D. W. Griffith edited for dramatic intensity and emotional emphasis, and Soviet filmmakers expanded his classical cutting techniques and developed theories of montage. French theorist Bazin, however, argued for minimal editing and favored deep focus composition. Italian neorealists filmmakers took this approach in their post-World War II films. Hitchcock’s practice of storyboarding provides a concise example of editing at work.

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Editing Questions for Film Analysis:
1) How much cutting is there and why?
2) Are the shoots highly fragmented or relatively lengthy?
3) What is the point of the cutting in each scene? To clarify? TO stimulate? To lyricize? To create suspense? To explore an idea or emotion in depth?
4) Does the cutting seem manipulative or are we left to interpret the images on our own?
5) What kind of rhythm does the editing establish with each scene?
6) Is the personality of the filmmaker apparent in the cutting or is the presentation of shots relatively objective and functional?
7) Is editing a major language system of the movie or does the film artist relegate cutting to a relatively minor fraction?

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