McCloud, S. 1993 ‘Chapter 3: Blood in the Gutters’, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, Tundra USA, pp. 60-93.

In Blood in the Gutter, Scott McCloud graphically portrays a learned explanation of his own knowledge of the relations between ‘panels’ in comics, which, through comparative analytical studies, can be transmitted over to film studies and the relations between shots. Through a nonchalant narrator, McCloud’s intentions and teachings are strongly pervasive. Different from Bordwell’s and Thompson’s four considerations of relations between shots is McCloud’s six types. This comic is focused on the purpose of the relations between shots – dissimilar to Bordwell’s and Thompson’s pedagogies on how the editing is performed. This comic is relevant and supportive to my research of the shot to shot ‘cut’ as it indicates that there is a greater extensiveness to shot to shot editing than it appears as of yet through research. The information is supported by graphical representations of statistics of each shot relation’s prevalence in films within different country’s industries. McCloud’s sixth relation, ‘Non-sequitur’, suggests a relation similar to the Kuleshov effect whereby spectators will garner a relation, either similar or conflicting, between unrelated shots. Further research will need to be undertaken on the notion of ‘Non-sequitur’ editing in non-continuous narratives and postmodern films.

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