Editing is one of the most important stages of film production. After the shooting is finished and the work of actors, directors, screenwriters, and other crew members is completed—until the premiere, there’s still a long way to go. That’s when the editor steps in. And it depends entirely on the editor what the final film will become. He literally assembles the future film piece by piece.
In her book, Bobby O’Steen discusses the basic concepts of editing theory and explains how different techniques work using concrete examples. For frame-by-frame analysis, the author chose some of the greatest films in cinema history: “Chinatown,” “Rear Window,” “The Graduate,” “12 Angry Men,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” and others.