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Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
Manovich.f

We no longer think of the history of cinema as a linear march toward only one possible language, or as a progressioin toward more and more accurate verisimilitude. Rather, we have come to see its history as a succession of distinct and equally expressive languages, each with its own aesthetic variables, each new language closing off some of the possibilities of the previous one - a cultural logic not dissimilar to Thomas Kuhn's analysis of scientific paradigms. Similarly, instead of dismissing visual strategies of early multimedia titles as a result of technological limitations, we may want to think of them as an alternative to traditional cinematic illusionism, as a beginning of digital cinema's new language. (Manovich 1999, p. 187.)

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