Real collage

Upon hearing the assertion that hypertext should be thought of as collage-writing, Lars Hubrich, a student in hypertext and literary theory course, remarked that he thought "montage" might be a better term than "collage."

He had in mind something like the first OED definition of montage as the "selection and arrangement of separate cinematographic shots as a consecutive whole; the blending (by superimposition) of separate shots to form a single picture; the sequence or picture resulting from such a process." Hubrich is correct in that whereas collage emphasizes the stage effect of a multiple-windowed hypertext system on a computer screen at any particular moment, montage, at least in its original cinematic meaning, places important emphasis upon sequence, and in hypertext one has to take into account the fact that one reads - or constructs - one's reading of a hypertext in time. (Landow 1999, pp. 169-70.)

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