Meanings
- uncountableA multilinear form of cinema involving interwoven storylines, plot twists, and flashback and flashforward sequences.
And yet one could also argue that the aestheticization of Kracauer's “solidarity of the universe” in contemporary cinema—for example, “hyperlink cinema” which brings together multiple protagonists from different social classes, ethnic or racial groups, and nations[…]
2009, Temenuga Trifonova, editor, European Film Theory, Routledge, →ISBN, page 284
Origin
Coined by author Alissa Quart in her 2005 review of the film Happy Endings.
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hyperlink cinema. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyperlink%20cinema
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