This book is based on the doctoral thesis Cutting Rhythms: Ideas about the Shaping of Rhythm in Film Editing, by Dr. Karen Pearlman, University of Technology, Sydney, 2006.

An earlier version of Chapter 1 of this book was published as “The Rhythm of Thinking—speculations on how an editor shapes the rhythm of a film,” in a special feature section on editing in Metro Magazine, a publication of the Australian Teachers of Media, 141, pp. 112–116, 2004.

Excerpts from Chapters 4, 5, and 6 were published in a series of three articles in the journal of the Dance Films Association, New York, 2005–2006 (Dance on Camera Journal, July–August 2005, 8(4); Dance on Camera Journal, September–October 2005, 8(5); and Dance on Camera Ezine, February ...

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