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Mitry's observations on Kuleshov's experiments are extremely important as, unlike many other commentators, he points out the active role of the reader (for someone like Eisenstein this activity was designated to the film maker so that the audience would be 'forced' to see the ideality of the connections presented). Furthermore the interpretation that can be made is contingent on the production of some notion of hermeneutic wholeness, that meaning is a product not only of the represented content, nor merely of their relation, but of a context created by the user, in concert with the content and its relation, and that this context encompasses both content and relation into a larger system. This larger system is always generated by the user and it is this that largely determines how the parts (shots, edits, nodes, links) are interpreted.
Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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