Part one: Film editing. The ghost of 47th Street : senses plus mind equals reality
The devil's black box and the snowflake : the effect of digitisation in fiction and documentary films
Recutting Orson Welles's Touch of evil : 'he was some kind of a man'
Nodality : a defence of film editing as poetry
The droid Olympics : when film editing was a competitive sport
Saccadic cinema : the uncanny persistence of the persistence of vision
Tetris I : timing and dosage in editing The conversation
Tetris II : restructuring The conversation
N-VIS-O splicing : and the breezy darkness
Her anme was Moviola : the first editing machine
Taking note : making comments on screenplays and screenings
Standfleisch : your chair is your enemy
The spliceosome : our lives depend on editing
Hana and Harvey : canine ketamine
Elements of style : read with caution . . .
Cook Ting : 'at first, I could see nothing that was not ox'
Part two: Sound design. Francis Coppola's special ballpoint pen : a 3 a.m. crisis in the mixing studio
The dancing shadow : from king to queen
Ode to Spo : the road to Apocalypse
Because you DON'T LISTEN! : thoughts on the sound of Barton Fink
Dense clarity/clear density : encoded and embodied sound and the rule of two and a half
Dense clarity : further thoughts : dramatic polyphony
You'll never work in this town again : and other studio follies
Duality of the soul : mysteries of narration and dialogue replacement
The many lives of sound effect 9413 : a Hollywood sound effect goes back to Nebraska
'Valkyries' in crisis : Decca vs Zoetrope
The goddess Echo : an experiment in acoustics
'That's my squeak!' : the first sampling lawsuit and a long-delayed apology
Manhattan symphony : redeem us from the chaos of shapeless noise
The slope : coming back to earth after a long project
The shape of things to come.
