In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch´s vivid,
multifaceted, thought-provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might
be the most basic editing question - Why do cuts work? - Murch treats the
reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of
cutting film. Along the way, he offers his unique insights on such subjects as
continuity and discontinuity in editing, dreaming, and reality; criteria for a
good cut; the blink of the eye as an emotional cue; digital editing; and much
more. In this second edition, Murch reconsiders and completely revises his
popular first edition´s lengthy meditation on digital editing (which accounts
for a third of the book´s pages) in light of the technological changes that
have taken place in the six years since its publication.
