Editing Jump cut (section)

== Notable examples ==
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The jump cut sometimes serves a political use in film. Some have used it as an alienating, [[Bertolt Brecht|Brechtian]] technique (the {{lang|de|[[Verfremdungseffekt]]}}) that makes the audience aware of the unreality of the film experience in order to focus attention on a political message rather than the drama or emotion of the narrative. This may be observed in some segments of [[Sergei Eisenstein]]'s ''[[The Battleship Potemkin]]''.

[[Alexander Dovzhenko]]' used jump cuts in ''[[Arsenal (1929 film)|Arsenal]]'' (Soviet Union, 1930), where a close-up shot of a character's face cuts closer and closer a total of nine times. [[Mark Cousins (film critic)|Mark Cousins]] comments that this "fragmentation captured his indecision&nbsp;... and confusion",<ref>Cousins, Mark (2004). ''The Story of Film'', 1st ed. London: Pavilion. p. 270</ref> adding that "Although the effect jars, the idea of visual conflict was central to Soviet montage cinema of that time".

Jump cuts are sometimes used to show a nervous searching scene, as is done in the 2009 science fiction film [[Moon (2009 film)|''Moon'']] in which the protagonist, Sam Bell, is looking for a secret room on a Moon base, and ''[[District 9]]'' in which the protagonist, Wikus, searches for illegal objects in the house of Christopher's friend.

Jump cuts plays a significant and disorienting role in a scene of [[Joel and Ethan Coen]]'s ''[[A Serious Man]]''. They intersperse shots of Rabbi Nachtner and Larry Gopnik having a conversation in the Rabbi's office with shots of an earlier meeting that Nachtner had with a different person in the same office.

In television, ''[[Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In]]'' editor [[Arthur Schneider]] won an [[Emmy Award]] in 1968 for his pioneering use of the jump cut. Jump cutting remained an uncommon TV technique until shows like ''[[Homicide: Life on the Street]]'' popularized it on the small screen in the 1990s.

The music video for "[[Everybody Have Fun Tonight]]" makes extensive use of the jump cut.

Other uses of the jump cuts include [[Vincent Gallo]]'s short ''Flying Christ'' in which various shots of "Christ" jumping are cut together as he is in mid-jump, creating the illusion of flight, and in many [[vlog]]s online, as popularized by [[the show with zefrank]].

British comedian [[Russell Kane]] has produced a series of comic, satirical videos, named "Kaneings", in response to current events. These make extensive use of jump-cut-style editing.