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hyperlink cinema

hyperlink cinema noun: a multilinear form of cinema involving interwoven storylines, plot twists, and flashback and flashforward sequences.

Noun

hyperlink cinema (uncountable)

  1. A multilinear form of cinema involving interwoven storylines, plot twists, and flashback and flashforward sequences.
    • And yet one could also argue that the aestheticization of Kracauer's “solidarity of the universe” in contemporary cinema—for example, “hyperlink cinema” which brings together multiple protagonists from different social classes, ethnic or racial groups, and nations[…]2009, Temenuga Trifonova, editor, European Film Theory, Routledge, →ISBN, page 284

Origin of hyperlink cinema

Coined by author Alissa Quart in her 2005 review of the film Happy Endings.

Questions about hyperlink cinema

What does hyperlink cinema mean?
Hyperlink cinema means a multilinear form of cinema involving interwoven storylines, plot twists, and flashback and flashforward sequences.
What part of speech is hyperlink cinema?
Hyperlink cinema is a noun.

Words near hyperlink cinema in the dictionary

  1. hyperliminous
  2. hyperlinear
  3. hyperlinearities
  4. hyperlinearity
  5. hyperlink
  6. hyperlink cinema
  7. hyperlinkable
  8. hyperlinkage
  9. hyperlinkages
  10. hyperlinked
  11. hyperlinking

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