''Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media'' is a journal covering the analysis of film, television, video, and related media. Established in 1974 by John Hess, Chuck Kleinhans (

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), and Julia Lesage (

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), it takes its name from the

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, a film editing technique in which an abrupt visual change occurs. The publication's stated goal is to approach its subject from a "nonsectarian left,

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, and anti-imperialist" perspective.

History

Hess, Kleinhans, and Lesage met in

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while they were attending graduate school at

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, circa 1970. Kleinhans remembers, " were actually sitting having a coffee in the university library and saying, 'We should start a film journal,' because John published something in ''

Film Quarterly ''Film Quarterly'', a journal devoted to the study of film, television, and visual media, is published by University of California Press. It publishes scholarly analyses of international and Hollywood cinema as well as independent film, including d ...

'' and Julia and I had published something too." After formulating the journal's principles and gathering articles during 1973, ''Jump Cuts first issue was released in 1974. Each editor contributed $1,000 toward each issue so that they could be free of advertising. Costs were kept low by publishing on

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and typing the copy on an electric typewriter (instead of having it

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). Distribution was initially done by volunteers driving copies to newsstands in

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where Kleinhans and Lesage took college-teaching jobsand

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where Hess settled. ''Jump Cut'' was published in print until 2001. Soon after, it began releasing issues online. As of September 1, 2019, its back issues are available on the

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for reading or downloading in a variety of formats.

External links

''Jump Cut'', 1974-2000
''The Internet Archive'' hosts a collection of all issues from the beginning until 2000.

References

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