Ken Dancyger is Professor Emeritus of Film and Television at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, as well as the author of numerous books on screenwriting, editing, and production, including Alternative Scriptwriting (with Jeff Rush) and Writing the Short Film (with Patricia Cooper), The Director's Idea, and Global Scriptwriting, all published by Routledge/Focal Press. Ken also conducts scriptwriting and editing workshops internationally.

Acknowledgements

Introduction to the Seventh Edition

Section 1: History of Film Editing

Chapter 1 The Silent Period

Chapter 2 The Early Sound Film

Chapter 3 The Influence of the Documentary

Chapter 4 The Influence of the Popular Arts

Chapter 5 The Influence of Other Arts

Chapter 6 Editors Who Became Directors

Chapter 7 Experiments in Editing: Alfred Hitchcock

Chapter 8 Experiments in Editing II: Robert Altman

Chapter 9 New Technologies

Chapter 10 International Advances

Chapter 11 The Influence of Television and Theatre

Chapter 12 New Challenges to Filmic Narrative Conventions

Chapter 13 The MTV Influence on Editing I

Chapter 14 The MTV Influence on Editing II

Chapter 15 Changes in Pace

Chapter 16 The Appropriation of Style I: Limitation and Innovation

Chapter 17 The Appropriation of Style II: Limitation and Innovation

Chapter 18 The Appropriation of Style III: Digital Reality

Section 2: Goals of Editing

Chapter 19 Editing for Narrative Clarity

Chapter 20 Editing for Dramatic Emphasis

Chapter 21 Editing for Subtext

Chapter 22 Editing for Surprise

Chapter 23: Editing for Aesthetics

Section 3: Editing for the Genre

Chapter 24 Action

Chapter 25 Dialog

Chapter 26 Comedy

Chapter 27 Documentary

Chapter 28 Imaginative Documentary

Chapter 29 Innovation in Documentary I

Chapter 30 Innovation in Documentary II

Chapter 31 Innovation in Documentary III: The Experimental Documentary

Section 4: Changes in Genre

Chapter 32 The Deep Dive

Chapter 33 The Biopic

Chapter 34 The Melodrama and Celine Sciamma

Chapter 35 The Melodrama: Identity, Diaspora vs Tradition

Chapter 36 The Reimagining of the Screwball Comedy

Chapter 37 The Soft Satire

Chapter 38 The Minimalist Approach

Section 5: Principles of Editing

Chapter 39 The Picture Edit and Continuity

Chapter 40 The Picture Edit and Pace

Chapter 41 Ideas and Sound

Chapter 42 The Sound Edit and Clarity

Chapter 43 The Sound Edit and Creative Sound

Chapter 44 Innovations of Sound

Chapter 45 Nonlinear Editing and Digital Technology I

Chapter 46 Nonlinear Editing and Digital Technology II

Chapter 47 Conclusion

Filmography

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Index