Science examines edits: 7 types of narrative disco

July 28, 2015, 07:54 AM

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From a scientific paper: “Event segmentation and seven types of narrative discontinuity in popular movies” by James E. Cutting: These results suggest that there are at least four different signatures of narrative shifts to be found in popular movies — general patterns across time, patterns of historical change, genre-specific patterns, and film-specific patterns. [...] ...the structure of popular movies, and the changes in that structure over the last 80 years, are fit to perceptu...