From the course: The History of Film and Video Editing

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Further evolution of editing techniques

Further evolution of editing techniques

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Further evolution of editing techniques

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- Ok, so now we're at the point right after the golden age of Hollywood, after the studio system collapsed, and some very interesting experiments in filmmaking and editing emerged. Now, in a moment we'll talk about what came after classic studio system filmmaking in Hollywood, but, I do first want to touch on a movement occurring in Europe in the 50's and 60's, and that's the French New Wave movement, featuring films by directors like Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut. Films from this era broke, even rejected, the traditional narrative structure and explored current social and political issues in interesting ways. These films employed a much different editing style than that of classic Hollywood cinema. Much like the surrealist films that I mentioned at the beginning of the last movie, the French New Wave films contained editing that often called attention to itself, containing lack of continuity through the use of devices like jump cuts. And the idea of the long take, or ultra…

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