Kennet Dancyger (born 1945) is a
scriptwriting theoretician,
film historian
The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art, visual art form created using history of film technology, film technologies that began in the late 19th century.
The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. Th ...
and expert on
film editing
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and
film production
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.
[Writing the short film, second edition, backcover] He is professor of film and TV at
Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film, Television, & New Media, Undergraduate. He has been the president of
University Film and Video Association
The University Film and Video Association (UFVA) is an organization of professors, scholars, and film and video makers. Although it is based in the U.S., it has members throughout the world.
Its stated description is:
UFVA holds an annual confe ...
.
He has taught film in the U.S. and Canada since 1968.
[the point of returns]
article on director Ed Hunt published in ''Cinema Canada'', December 1976/ January 1977 Number 33
His 2002 book contains a detailed comparison of
screwball comedy
Screwball comedy is a film subgenre of the romantic comedy genre that became popular during the Great Depression, beginning in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1950s, that satirizes the traditional love story. It has secondary charact ...
and
film noir
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.(p. 68) He has collaborated as historical consultant for the 2004 documentary ''The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing'', about the art of
film editing
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital ...
.
Books
*1991, with
Jeff Rush, ''Alternative Scriptwriting: Writing Beyond the Rules''. Editions: 2nd 1995 (new subtitle: ''Successfully Breaking the Rules''), 3rd 2002, 4th 2006. Boston and Oxford: Focal Press
*1991, ''Broadcast Writing: Drama, Comedies, and Documentaries''
*1993, ''The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory, and Practice''. Editions: 2nd 1997, 3rd 2002, 4th 2006. Focal Press.
*1994, with
Patricia Cooper, ''Writing the Short Film'', Second Edition
*1999, ''World of Film and Video Production: Aesthetics and Practice''
*2001, ''Global scriptwriting'' (reprinted in 2013)
*2006, ''The Director's Idea: The Path to Great Directing''
*2013, ''Alternative Scriptwriting: Beyond the Hollywood Formula''
*2018, ''The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory, and Practice''
*2019, ''Storytelling for Film and Television: From First Word to Last Frame''
See also
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Nonlinear narrative
Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative, or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique where events are portrayed, for example, out of chronological order or in other ways where the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the ...
References
External links
Page at New York UniversityInterview
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German film historians
Living people
Screenwriting instructors
American film historians
1945 births