Pearlman, K. 2009 ‘Chapter 1: Rhythmic Intuition’, Cutting Rhythms: Shaping the Film Edit, Focal Press, Oxford UK

In this chapter, Pearlman, “Hypothesises that the editor’s intuition is an acquired body of knowledge with two sources—the rhythms of the world that the editor experiences and the rhythms of the editor’s body that experiences them.” (xvii). Pearlman discusses how physiology and kinesthetic experience synthesise to develop intuition – a learned behaviour  – different to instinct that is ‘nature’. Using Guy Claxton’s – co-editor of the The Intuitive Practitioner – six processes of intuition, Pearlman’s pedagogies are solidified and reliable. This chapter is greatly useful to my research on the editing of shots in films as Pearlman indicates that both the conscious and unconscious minds of the editor, alongside experience and expectation, combine when determining how and why a cut will occur. This chapter extends my research as the psyche of the editor is now introduced in developing a relation between shot-to-shot through film editing; I am encouraged to research psychological intentions for editing and the cut in other sources.

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