--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:59:15 +0100, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Let me expand on what I meant. For a start the term 'war on text' is > > supposed to be tongue in cheek, as the 'War On Terror' is one of the > > most stupid things Ive ever come across. > > Adrian Miles wrote this some years ago: > > "While Michael Joyce once, rather famously, commented that "hypertext is > the word's revenge on TV" (Joyce, 1995: 47) I'd like to suggest that > hypertext is in fact cinema's revenge on the word, and what I am > interested in exploring is the word's remaking of itself in the light of > the cinematic. This 'allure of the cinematic' as the expression of an > always immanent cinematic force probably takes various forms, however > through the comparison of a particular cinematic moment or gesture - the > edit - in the light of a particular hypertextual moment or gesture - the > link, this force is given, in some manner, corporeal expression." > > Anyway, food for thought. the entire thing is online at: <URL: > http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/essays/cinema_paradigms/introduction.html > > > - Andreas > -- > <URL:http://www.solitude.dk/> > Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. >
I don't see the relationship. Cinema and the subset of the edit is linear, hypertext is non-linear. This seems more poetic simile mismatch than illuminating. -- Enric ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
