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hyalosign

/ˈhaɪəloʊˌsaɪn/

hyalosign noun: in the context of Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy, particularly in his work Cinema 2: The Time-Image, a specific type of cinematic image that embodies a fusion of the actual and the virtual, often illustrated through motifs like mirrors or crystals. These images disrupt linear temporality, creating a direct presentation of time in film.

Noun

hyalosign (plural hyalosigns)

  1. (film theory) In the context of Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy, particularly in his work Cinema 2: The Time-Image, a specific type of cinematic image that embodies a fusion of the actual and the virtual, often illustrated through motifs like mirrors or crystals. These images disrupt linear temporality, creating a direct presentation of time in film.
    • This is a progress in relation to the opsign : we saw how the crystal (the hyalosign) ensures the correlate of the opsign and the sonsign.1989, Gilles Deleuze, translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta, Cinema 2: the Time-Image, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, translation of Cinéma 2, L’Image-temps (in French), pages...
    • According to Deleuze, any shard of a crystal is a hyalo-sign (literally, a 'glass-sign'), which can either go opaque or clear, that is, it can act as transparent glass or as a mirror.2010 May 26, Christopher Vitale, “On Hyalo-Signs and Crystal-Images”, in wordpress

Forms of hyalosign

pluralhyalosigns

Origin of hyalosign

From hyalo- + sign.

Questions about hyalosign

What does hyalosign mean?
Hyalosign means in the context of Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy, particularly in his work Cinema 2: The Time-Image, a specific type of cinematic image that embodies a fusion of the actual and the virtual, often illustrated through motifs like mirrors or crystals. These images disrupt linear temporality, creating a direct presentation of time in film.
What part of speech is hyalosign?
Hyalosign is a noun.
How do you pronounce hyalosign?
Hyalosign is pronounced /ˈhaɪəloʊˌsaɪn/.
What is the plural of hyalosign?
The plural of hyalosign is hyalosigns.

Words near hyalosign in the dictionary

  1. hyaloplasm
  2. hyaloplasmatic
  3. hyaloplasms
  4. hyaloscyphaceous
  5. hyaloserositis
  6. hyalosign
  7. hyalosigns
  8. hyalosis
  9. hyalosome
  10. hyalosomes
  11. hyalospheniid

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