Suddenly something clicked : the languages of film editing and sound design /
"Highly lauded film editor, director, writer and sound designer Walter Murch reflects on the six decades of cinematic history he has been a considerable contributor to--and on what makes great films great. Together with Francis Coppola and George Lucas, Murch abandoned Hollywood in 1969 and mov...
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London :
Faber & Faber Ltd,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: Film editing. The ghost of 47th Street : senses plus mind equals reality
- The devil's black box and the snowflake : the effect of digitisation in fiction and documentary films
- Recutting Orson Welles's Touch of evil : 'he was some kind of a man'
- Nodality : a defence of film editing as poetry
- The droid Olympics : when film editing was a competitive sport
- Saccadic cinema : the uncanny persistence of the persistence of vision
- Tetris I : timing and dosage in editing The conversation
- Tetris II : restructuring The conversation
- N-VIS-O splicing : and the breezy darkness
- Her name was Moviola : the first editing machine
- Taking note : making comments on screenplays and screenings
- Standfleisch : your chair is your enemy
- The spliceosome : our lives depend on editing
- Hana and Harvey : canine ketamine
- Elements of style : read with caution . . .
- Cook Ting : 'at first, I could see nothing that was not ox'
- Part two: Sound design. Francis Coppola's special ballpoint pen : a 3 a.m. crisis in the mixing studio
- The dancing shadow : from king to queen
- Ode to Spo : the road to Apocalypse
- Because you DON'T LISTEN! : thoughts on the sound of Barton Fink
- Dense clarity/clear density : encoded and embodied sound and the rule of two and a half
- Dense clarity : further thoughts : dramatic polyphony
- You'll never work in this town again : and other studio follies
- Duality of the soul : mysteries of narration and dialogue replacement
- The many lives of sound effect 9413 : a Hollywood sound effect goes back to Nebraska
- 'Valkyries' in crisis : Decca vs Zoetrope
- The goddess Echo : an experiment in acoustics
- 'That's my squeak!' : the first sampling lawsuit and a long-delayed apology
- Manhattan symphony : redeem us from the chaos of shapeless noise
- The slope : coming back to earth after a long project
- The shape of things to come.