A discontinuous edit advances time abruptly, foregrounding the constructed nature of film.
French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard didn’t invent the jump cut, but Breathless (1960) weaponised it against classical continuity, splicing mid-take to accelerate pacing and expose artifice. Earlier examples exist in Dziga Vertov’s newsreels, yet Hollywood had long deemed such temporal leaps “errors.” Godard’s radicalism reframed the mistake as muscle.
The cut removes intervening frames while retaining camera position, causing subjects to “jump” slightly in the same set-up. Contemporary vlog culture embraces the technique for brevity; YouTubers staccato-slice dead air, proving grammar once branded avant-garde can become mainstream vernacular.
Purists argue overuse erodes spatial coherence; defenders counter that digital-native viewers parse discontinuity effortlessly. AI-powered “auto-jump” editors, now common in conferencing software, threaten to normalise the technique further, raising alarms that nuanced pauses could vanish from audiovisual discourse entirely.
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