hyperlink cinema

Coined by author Alissa Quart in her 2005 review of the film Happy Endings.

hyperlink cinema (uncountable)

1. A multilinear form of cinema involving interwoven storylines, plot twists, and flashback and flashforward sequences.
   • 2009, Temenuga Trifonova, editor, European Film Theory, Routledge, →ISBN, page 284:

     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 […]