The relationship between film editing and emotion: a case study of Psycho movie
KEYWORDS: Film editing; Film studies; Filmic emotions; Meaking meaning; Psycho (movie).
Editing is one of the main steps in building the meaning of a film. It is in this process that previously recorded images and sounds are orchestrated in a definitive way so that the viewer understands and feels the narrative in the way they do. For some theorists and filmmakers, there is a strong relationship between this technique and the emotions of the audience. The purpose of this work is, therefore, to investigate how such this relation occurs. In the first chapter, we begin with a discussion of what is and the origins of film editing, seeking to understand how the emotions appear in the filmography of some filmmakers that contributed to the improvement of this technique in word cinema. Then, we will discuss the relation between editing and filmic emotions in the light of the Cognitive Theory, that has added the affective states in its research agenda. Finally, we will analyze the Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho (1960) to empirically understand the phenomenon studied.