flash cuts

Noun

flash cut (plural flash cuts)

1. A change made to a complex system with immediate effect, one made without a phase-in period.
2. A quick move from the weak side toward the ball.
   • Be in a strong, balanced stance and ready to withstand any contact that may take place as you stop the flash cut.1994, Hal Wissel, Basketball: Steps to Success, →ISBN, page 201
3. An fast cut, often as short as one frame, used to create a subliminal effect on the viewer.
   • Peter Weir's The Cars That Ate Paris (1974), for example, begins with two brothers driving through the small town of Paris, Australia, only to suddenly encounter — via flash cut — a blinding white light in the road.2004, David Scott Diffrient, “A Film is Being Beaten: Notes on the Shock Cut and the Material Violence of Horror”, in Horror Film, →ISBN, page 231