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The autonomous segment is a subdivision of the first order in film; it is therefore a part of a film, and not a part of a part of a film. (If an autonomous segment is composed of five successive shots, each one of these shots is a part of a part of the whole film - that is to say, a nonautonomous segment). It is clear nevertheless that the "autonomy" of the autonomous segments themselves is not an independence, since each autonomous segment derives its final meaning in relation to the film as a whole, the latter being the maximum syntagma of the cinema. (Metz, p. 123.)

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