Intentional Uses
The jump cut has sometimes served a political use in film. It has been used as an alienating Brechtian technique (the Verfremdungseffekt) that makes the audience aware of the unreality of the film experience, in order to focus the audience's attention on the political message of a film rather than the drama or emotion of the narrative — as may be observed in some segments of Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin.
Jump cuts are sometimes used to show a nervous searching scene as is done in the 2009 science fiction film Moon where the protagonist is looking for a secret room on a moon base and District 9 where Wikus searches for illegal objects in the house of Christopher's friend.
In television, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In editor Arthur Schneider won an Emmy Award in 1968 for his pioneering use of the jump cut. It was also famously used in a campaign commercial for US President Ronald Reagan's successful 1984 reelection bid. Jump cutting remained an uncommon TV technique until shows like Homicide: Life on the Street popularized it on the small screen in the 1990s.
Other uses of the jumpcut 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.
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