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There has been considerable technical interest in combining video with hypertext. This work has generally concentrated on issues of usability, information management, navigation, what I'd broadly characterise as instrumental uses. This includes the work of Chiu et al (2000), Bossierè (1998), Shin and Chan (1997), Miyasato (2000) and Smith, et al, (2000).
Liestøl's (1994) earlier work explores the efficacy of utilising video within hypermedia, while Balcom's work, subsequent to Sawhney, Balcom and Smith's HyperCafe project, indicates a particularly interesting series of possibilities. Here the emphasis shifts from one of rhetorical transparency towards a 'writing' where resistance and interpretation may be foregrounded. Though Balcom's 1996 analysis of Robert Altman's Short Cuts is perhaps symptomatic of the issues I address generally here - that is there remains an assumption regarding a canonical film 'grammar' that grounds the perceived relation of hypermedia writing to film language, whereas the canonical grammar is probably the exception in the history of film, rather than the rule.
Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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