Fairservice, D. 2001 ‘Cinema and Psychology’, Film Editing: History, Theory and Practice: Looking at the Invisible, Manchester University Press, NY USA.  

In this chapter of Film Editing: History, Theory and Practice: Looking at the Invisible Fairservice attempts to discuss the intentions of and psychology behind editing in cinema. He states, “The psychology of perception demonstrates that we instinctively strive to construct meaning from what we see.” (300). Fairservice puts forth his own understanding of slow motion versus fast motion editing, the displacement of sound and jump cuts. This article is not useful to my research as jump cuts is discussed briefly and is focused more on the intentions of cutting for the narrative and not the multitude of relations between shot to shot. A more in-depth source is needed to propel my research into the editing of the cut.

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