![]() Or that Dorothy Arzner, the only woman director to work for major Hollywood studios from the 1920s to the 1940s, herself spent seven years as an editor of silent films and hired women to edit ten of the seventeen films she directed. ![]() Elizaveta SvilovaĪside from being so instructive, the website is a trove to get happily lost in, and discover fact upon colorful fact about women editors that would make any cinephile ask: how did I not know that? Like the story of Viola Lawrence, considered the first woman editor in Hollywood, who wielded the influence to make Orson Welles go back and shoot the close-ups she needed for The Lady for Shanghai (1947). When the Motion Pictures Editors’ Guild released its list of seventy-five best edited films in 2012, four of the top eight titles were edited by women: Raging Bull (1980, Thelma Schoonmaker), Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Dede Allen), Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Anne V. This neglect applies to both male and female editors, but it has had a special impact on the latter by occluding the fact that women have a rich but little-known history as editors, especially in American cinema. “It’s time to stop imagining that ‘it’s really the director’ who does the editing,” she writes. Friedrich points to the unjust lack of attention to editors everywhere, contrasting their relative invisibility to the much greater awareness of directors, writers, and even cinematographers that exists in film culture. Out of this seed of curiosity grew the enormous research effort that has now resulted in the website.Įdited By is global in scope, even if the majority of its entries are devoted to American women. ![]() Looking up the cited films on IMDb, she discovered that most of them were edited by women. Friedrich, a renowned experimental filmmaker with a body of work spanning over four decades, tells the story of coming upon a film history book, turning to the editing chapter, and finding that each reference to a film mentioned the director-but never the editor. ![]() A momentous event in online film culture went mostly unnoticed earlier this year: the unveiling of Edited By, Su Friedrich’s large and invaluable web resource devoted to women film editors.
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