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Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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This essay has three different 'content areas.' The first is the essay that describes and discusses the relation of cinema to hypertext in terms of Metz's syntagmatic categories to see if they offer anything for hypertext. The second consists of the method of this essay, primarily relying on small textual chunks and ideas that are then thematically linked amongst other nodes and chunks. Finally, the essay itself contains all the notes compiled from various sources while researching this essay, and these are annotated and interlinked amongst themselves and the 'body' of the essay proper.

This history of my reading for this essay, the work that in legitimate academic writing is generally concealed (in the interests of good writing and clear argumentation), remains available and, as Landow (1999) has acknowledged, doing this does allows the writing of my peers to retain much more of their authority than mine, and it promotes a rather difficult writing with and through, rather than the more usual amongst and around.

Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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