Book Reviews
Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive
‘Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive’ by Valerie Orpen is a highly theoretical examination of editing as an essential but greatly misunderstood aspect of motion picture production. […]
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Hidden Magic Revealed
‘The Invisible Cut: How Editors Make Movie Magic’ will stand as a deft introduction to the “invisible art” of editing and would prove highly useful as a textbook. […]
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Crafting Cinema in the Third Dimension
Bernard Mendiburu’s book contains the requisite technical information about stereoscopic perception and its relation to cinema. […]
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Discovering the Story of the Scene
The central issue in ‘The Lean Forward Moment’ is emotional engagement in the narrative. […]
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Hollywood’s ‘Skilled Surgeon’
Viera’s fine history provides an insightful look into this legendary producer. […]
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This Year, Book ‘Em!
Here are our recommendations of actual books on paper for the film fan on your list.
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Blooping the Join And Other Memories of Editing’s Early Days
With this engaging and highly entertaining autobiography, Clark recounts an illustrious career as an editor. […]
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Wide, Wide World
In the Jean-Luc Godard film Contempt (1963), director Fritz Lang, portraying himself, acidly jokes that CinemaScope “wasn’t meant for human beings. Just for snakes and funerals.” […]
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Winter Reading – And Gifting
Despite what you may hear about eBook publishing and digital books, the publication of books about film on “dead trees” (or paper) is very much alive. […]
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Demystifying the Multi-Cam Universe
Mitch Jacobson helps readers learn the same methods, and perhaps achieve the same results, as the masters of multi-cam. […]
