This tutorial investigates the role of editing in narrative. It does so both through the analysis of novels, essays and films, and through exercises in creating and manipulating short digital narratives. One might think of it as a lab course in which students will test the effects of different arrangements of words, sounds, and moving images. While "Cut" will not emphasize technical mastery, basic audio and video editing techniques will be taught in required labs. After that, the course will be conducted through hour-long tutorials between the professor and pairs of students, concentrating on consideration of student work. Assigned materials will include pieces by Dziga Vertov, Leni Riefenstahl, Orson Welles, Edgar Allan Poe and Ernest Hemingway, as well as readings in literary theory and film history. Format: tutorial. Requirements: required editing labs, frequent short tutorial essays. Prerequisites: a 100-level English course, except 150. Enrollment limit: 10 (expected: 10). (Post-1900)