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What do "flashback", "analepsis", "anachrony" and the old film term "cut-back" mean, and why can the same word point at different things?

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In narratology (Living Handbook of Narratology, "Time") a deviation between story order and telling order is an anachrony; Genette calls the backward kind analepsis (flashback) and the forward kind prolepsis (flash-forward). In 1913-1919 American photoplay manuals "cut-back" meant something else or more: returning to an earlier-shown scene (often intercutting parallel action), sometimes a memory insert, and in one manual a mere splitting of a long scene. A beginner must check which sense a source uses.

In narratology (Living Handbook of Narratology, "Time") a deviation between story order and telling order is an anachrony; Genette calls the backward kind analepsis (flashback) and the forward kind prolepsis (flash-forward). In 1913-1919 American photoplay manuals "cut-back" meant something else or more: returning to an earlier-shown scene (often intercutting parallel action), sometimes a memory insert, and in one manual a mere splitting of a long scene. A beginner must check which sense a source uses. Curator qualifications: Excerpt check: 36/37 excerpts found verbatim; the 37th (Stage Fright passage) is present with markup spacing (C3R-0050). Term counts (CR stripped): 'cut-back' 16/5/3/3 across the four photoplay texts; 'flashback' 2 (17903 only); LHN Time 'analepsis' 2. Phillips glossary: '_Cut-Back_--(Really instruction in manufacturing to cut film and go back; misleading to playwright who goes only forward.) See RETURN.' Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary. Limitations: [component_reuse_restriction] Gutenberg texts PD in US; local-law status elsewhere not established; LHN host terms not established (producer rights note). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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