Abstract
Linking the concept of performance to spectatorship (eg the act of screening a film before an audience) and to craftsmanship (eg the act of suturing together filmic sequences), my paper will demonstrate that digital technology's impact on time within the cinematic realm has been promoting two concurrent phenomena, over the last decade: First, the digital, in the form of covert and overt digital special effects, has been influencing movie spectators' direct relationship to narrative time and space. Simultaneously, it has, in the form of digital non-linear editing (NLE), been leading to the rise of theoretical misconceptions about film editing's effect on thematic coherence, human agency, and film aesthetic, in relation to narrative chronology.
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