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Silver Screen Tarnishes Unions, Ken Margolies Jun 2009

Silver Screen Tarnishes Unions, Ken Margolies

Ken Margolies

[Excerpt] Organizing a film festival of pro-labor Hollywood films would be rather difficult. When unions do appear, they are often part of the subplot or the background for the main story line.


Making A Story Move: The Art Of Film Editing, Daniel Gross May 2009

Making A Story Move: The Art Of Film Editing, Daniel Gross

Honors Scholar Theses

An in-depth treatise on the process of film editing, featuring 16 original interviews from renowned editors. These editors share insight and anecdotes about the daily joys and difficulties of their careers (and the professional principles they subscribe to), as well as the creative, interpersonal, and technical challenges they constantly face. Discussion of the “MTV influence” behind modern film editing is offered, and this influence is explored in filmmaking history. Advice and inspiration is also shared for the benefit of future film editors; Hollywood editors tell their own stories about how they thrived in a notoriously-difficult field, and what it would …