Book Reviews

With Mary Ann Doane’s highly theoretical meditation, the reader is challenged to reflect on the representation of time in film.

In ‘Cut By Cut’, Chandler has set forth a supremely organized workflow chart for perfection of the craft on both the film and video platforms.

Richard Pepperman examines the “great choices” that produce a great scene.

Every few years, a motion picture editor should read this book to clear the field of view and refresh the vision about what the craft is all about.

‘The Eye is Quicker’ a book about editing that would best stand alongside Walter Murch’s In the ‘Blink of an Eye’ on an editor’s bookshelf.

Da Capo has given us ‘The B List’ with film critics’ picks and observations about “low-budget beauties, genre-bending mavericks and cult classics.”

‘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.

‘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.