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person director-theorist ◆ established

Edward Dmytryk

also: Edward Dmytryk ASC? · Edward Dmytryk director

anadian-born American director, editor, and film theorist whose book On Film Editing became one of the most widely circulated practical statements of classical editing craft. Dmytryk is often cited less for stylistic flamboyance than for his clear articulation of cutting rules and working principles for narrative cinema.

notes

Dmytryk is one of those foundational names whose importance is partly infrastructural. Even when editors disagree with his rules, they are still arguing inside a framework he helped popularize.

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180-Degree Rule Cutting on Action Invisible Edit Match Cut Motivated Cut Rule of Six

references

  1. Edward Dmytryk On Film Editing (1984)
  2. Film history references Classical Hollywood editing pedagogy (2000)