This course will address the strategies and principles integral to the art of narrative filmmaking. It will examine the distinctive concepts, skills, processes and editing grammar essential to creative postproduction. Through lectures, screenings and shot-by-shot analysis, we will examine a wide-ranging group of motion-picture styles and the use of editing techniques that enhance them. A different topic will be explored weekly through films that include Edge Codes; All That Jazz; The Passion of Joan of Arc; The Wild Bunch; Jaws; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Koyannisqatsi; Man with a Movie Camera and Dog Star Man. In addition, we will discuss examples of editor/director collaborations of such editors as Dede Allen, Thelma Schoonmaker, Michael Kahn, Walter Murch and Pietro Scalia. Legendary works of editors responsible for the advancement of editing language and techniques will be examined in detail. This is an indispensable course for those newly trained in editing protocols and not yet experienced in the techniques of creative editing, as well as editors interested in learning more about their craft and cineastes interested in how films are made. Editing terms and handouts elaborating on subject matter will be distributed throughout the semester.