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To avoid this heterogeneity, hypermedia should, in this introductory phase of its aesthetic development, stress continuity over diversity. In creating an aesthetically and commercially successful medium hypermedia might follow a path of development analogous to that of cinema, in particular the so-called Hollywood paradigm of continuity editing. By means of a special aesthetic of editing, the great Hollywood directors from Griffith onwards managed to create films that minimized necessary discontinuity between shots by editing that stressed graphical, rhythmic, temporal, and spatial continuity. (Liestøl, p. 218.)
Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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