ABSTRACT
David Bordwell takes a broader, "macro" approach that is useful for editors because it allows us to zoom in and out, from "micro" to the "macro" approach when looking at a longer narrative. It asks us to take a wider view of the story being assembled, giving special attention to how the editor controls the presentation of narrative events across the entire film as it unfolds, and how that unfolding presentation shapes the viewer's construction of the film's narrative. David Bordwell is an American film theorist and historian who has authored a number of significant books in film studies. In 1985, he authored Narration in the fiction film and co-authored The classical Hollywood cinema: film style and mode of production to 1960, written in collaboration with Janet Staiger and his wife, Kristin Thompson. Bordwell believes that a film viewer is active, reading cues in the film text and using prior knowledge, understanding of film conventions, the structure of the canonic story.
