Karen Pearlman

Dr Karen Pearlman is the author of Cutting Rhythms, Shaping the Film Edit (Focal Press, 2009) and its second edition Cutting Rhythms, Intuitive Film Editing (Focal Press, 2016). She is known for her pioneering work in articulating underlying principles concerning what rhythm in film is, how it is shaped and the purpose it serves in modulating cycles of tension and release for viewers.^[1] The focus of her research and teaching, currently as Lecturer in Film Production at Macquarie University and formerly as Head of Screen Studies at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, is on the connection of theory and practice and making conceptual thinking accessible and useful to practitioners.^[2] Many of her ideas about rhythm, editing, and affect derive from her career as a professional dancer on the opera house stages of the world with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and dancing and choreographing in the theatres, lofts and experimental dance venues of Australia, the USA and Europe. As well as using her understanding of kinesthetic empathy in her theorizing, she applies her choreographic sensibility to her own editing and dramaturgy of the multi award winning dance on screen works made by The Physical TV Company, which she co-directs with Richard James Allen.^[3] In 2009 Dr Pearlman was elected President of The Australian Screen Editors Guild (ASE).

Books

• Pearlman, Karen (2016). Cutting Rhythms: Intuitive Film Editing. New York ; London: Focal Press, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group. pp. xxix, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 978-1-138-94608-8. (hbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-138-85651-6 (pbk. : alk. paper). 
• Pearlman, Karen (2009). Cutting Rhythms: Shaping the Film Edit. Amsterdam ; Boston: Focal Press/Elsevier. pp. xxix, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 978-0-240-81014-0. (hbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 0-240-81014-7 (pbk. : alk. paper). 
• Allen, Richard James; Karen Pearlman (1999). Performing the Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts. Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Currency Press in association with RealTime. pp. xv, 203 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. ISBN 0-86819-420-4. ISBN 0-86819-420-4 ISBN 0-86819-420-4 (Pbk). 
• Allen, Richard James; Karen Pearlman (1996). New Life on the 2nd Floor. Launceston, TAS, Australia: Tasdance. pp. 76 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-9586795-0-9. 

External links

• Dr Karen Pearlman at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS)
• Cutting Rhythms: Intuitive Film Editing
• Karen Pearlman Filmmaking Blog
• Cutting Rhythms: Shaping the Film Edit
• Performing The Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts
• The Physical TV Company
• The Physical TV Channel on YouTube
• The Physical TV Company Website selected for preservation by Pandora, Australia's Web Archive, at the National Library of Australia
• Dr Karen Pearlman on ABC Radio National Australia Talks Movies: Dance Film
• Reviews, Articles and Books by and Interviews with Dr Karen Pearlman
• Karen Pearlman at the Manuscripts Collection, the State Library of New South Wales
• Karen Pearlman at the National Film and Sound Archive
• Karen Pearlman at IMDb
• Karen Pearlman at Macquarie University
• Portrait of Karen Pearlman at the National Library of Australia

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