Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive offers an analysis of editing in the sound film

that considers editing as a creative strategy rather than a mere technique. Orpen divides

the editing process in three steps: the selection of takes and their length, the arrangement

and timing of shots, scenes and sequences and their combination with the soundtrack.

This book is useful because the reader can examine the way editing can make meaning

and how the element of editing is crucial for the vision of a film. The book includes

detailed studies of Scorsese’s Raging Bull, Hitchcock’s Rear Window and Godard’s A

Bout de Souffle.