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Routledge
Unlike editing, découpage does not take place after the film has been shot, but before. The French term refers to the breakdown of a scene into a sequence of shots. In order to translate the written screenplay into film language, cinematographers and directors employ a genuinely cinematic way of thinking—a thinking in sequences of moving images and sounds, including the camera setups, movements,... Read more
Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1: From the Emergence of Varieties of the Concept to the Question of Authorship, Chapter 2: The Further Development of the Concept in Sound Film and Découpage as écriture, Chapter 3: The Gradual Displacement of the Concept, Chapter 4: The Revival and Reevaluation of Découpage, Conclusion, Index
Biography
Guido Kirsten teaches film and media studies. His research interests include: aesthetics of moving images, representations of social class, and the history of film theory. He is the author of Filmischer Realismus (2013) and co-editor of Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema (2018) and Precarity in European Film (2022).
