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    The document discusses hypertextual film and nonlinear narrative techniques. It defines hypertext as text that branches and allows for nonsequential reading using links that offer different pathways. Examples are given of films like TimeCode from 1990 that used multiple simultaneous and interweaving storylines to mimic the structure of human memory and create a nonlinear narrative experience for the viewer. A filmography list various other films that employ hypertextual and nonlinear storytelling techniques.

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    The document discusses hypertextual film and nonlinear narrative techniques. It defines hypertext as text that branches and allows for nonsequential reading using links that offer different pathways. Examples are given of films like TimeCode from 1990 that used multiple simultaneous and interweaving storylines to mimic the structure of human memory and create a nonlinear narrative experience for the viewer. A filmography list various other films that employ hypertextual and nonlinear storytelling techniques.

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    A2 Unit 3 Hypertext

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    Hypertextual Film Art Video

    Hypertextual stories allow the


    viewer/user to experience narrative
    in a chosen way. Stories often
    become fragmented or exist
    simultaneously. Hypertext is about
    fragments and connections,
    contingencies and roads not taken.

    Ted Nelson, who coined the term


    `hypertext,' defines it as:

    ‘…nonsequential writing--text that


    branches and allows choices to the
    reader, best read at an interactive
    screen. As popularly conceived, this is a series of text chunks
    connected by links which offer the reader different pathways’.
    [Nelson1981].

    WEB 2.0.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

    Hyperland 1990 Douglas Adams

    Douglas Adams’ 1990 documentary about the web before it was really there
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOsPKjbMvxY

    Nonlinear narrative

    Nonlinear narrative or disrupted narrative is a narrative


    technique, sometimes used in literature, film and other narratives,
    wherein events are portrayed out of chronological order. It is often
    used to mimic the structure and recall of human memory but has been
    applied for other reasons as well.

    TimeCode 1990 Mike Figgis

    L.A., real time. From her limo, the wealthy Lauren eavesdrops on her
    lover Rose's tryst with movie producer Alex Green. The assignation
    takes place in his company's screening room between meetings. Alex's

    1
    wife walks from therapy to his office, tells him she's leaving him,
    weeps in a bookstore restroom, and walks home with a cocaine-sniffing
    actress friend for what may lead to sex. Alex is drinking, wants to quit
    work and move to Tuscany, laughs at pretentious movie pitches, and
    puts off Rose when she asks for an audition. A film director sees Rose
    and decides she's perfect for his next picture; she takes a screen test.
    She's ecstatic and calls Lauren: jealousy takes over.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajNXfx4FBOI

    Short Cuts
    Short Cuts does not conform to traditional narrative Hollywood cinema.
    There is narrative, to be sure, though the manner in which narrative
    operates moves far and away from classical Hollywood style. A brief
    detour: by "classic Hollywood style," I refer to a more "traditional"
    narrative where one character, or maybe a few, are privileged with the
    most screen time. Questions asked by the text are almost always
    answered, usually answered "sensibly." The ending usually resolves
    the story's conflicts. There is usually only one main story, which
    progresses from beginning to end without serious detour. In addition,
    and perhaps most importantly, the filmmaking style does not draw
    attention to itself in classic Hollywood cinema. Camera movements,
    edits, and acting serve to push the story forward to an eventual
    resolution. The means of production are largely or entirely kept from
    the viewer.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwCA6tRl1hY

    Hypercinema Filmography

    • Nashville (1975) • Amores Perros (2000) [3]


    • After Hours (1985) • Traffic (2000) [7]
    • The Player (1992) • Lantana (2001) [9]
    • Short Cuts (1993) • City of God (2002) [7]
    • Before the Rain (1994) • 21 Grams (2003) [3]
    • Pulp Fiction (1994) • Cape of Good Hope (2004)
    • The Opposite of Sex [7]

    (1998) • Crash (2004) [1]


    • Magnolia (1999) • Happy Endings (2005) [1]

    • Timecode (2000) [1] • Syriana (2005) [2]

    2
    • Nine Lives (2005) [2] • The Air I Breathe (2008)
    • Look Both Ways (2006) [10] [13]

    • Babel (2006) [3] • Gomorrah (2008) [14]


    • Rendition (2007) [11] • Mumbai Meri Jaan (2008)
    • The Edge of Heaven [15]

    (2007)

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