Last week in my film studies class, I showed portions of The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing<\/em><\/a>, including a brief overview of montage theory and a recreation of the so-called Kuleshov Effect.\u00a0 Lev Kuleshov<\/a> was a Russian filmmaker in the 1910\u2019s and 20\u2019s who created an incredibly short but incredibly influential piece of film.\u00a0 In it, Kuleshov cut from a shot of a well-known actor (Ivan Mozzhukhin<\/a>) to a bowl of soup.\u00a0 He cut again back to a repetition of the same shot of Mozzhukhin, and then another cut to a young girl on a funeral bier, back to the same shot of the actor, cut to a scantily-clad young lady, and then back to the actor.<\/p>\n