Marc Furstenau is Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa. He published articles on a range of topics and is the editor of The Film Theory Reader: Debates and Arguments (Routledge, 2010), co-editor of Cinema and Technology: Cultures, Theories, Practices (Palgrave, 2008), and co-editor of Special Effects on the Screen: Faking the View from Méliès to Motion Capture (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022). He is past editor of the Canadian Journal of Film Studies.

• List of illustrations Introduction 1: The Fate of Film Editing 2: Editing, Intention, and the Work of Film Art 3: The Technology and Technique of Film Editing 4: Digital Montage and the Ontology of the Cinema 5: The Art of Editing in the Digital Era Conclusion Acknowledgements Bibliography Index