Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act, process, or power of mentally seeing past events, especially such as have not come within one's personal experience or observation.
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- noun a vision of events in the distant past
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Examples
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But the film that's taking retrovision overground and upmarket right now is The Artist, the new French-made "silent movie".
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Somehow, retrovision fits perfectly with "cult" viewing material.
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And he's gearing up for a big-screen retrovision venture: The Reprisalizer, which promises to be a homage to manly 1970s pulp crime fiction.
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For those readers stubbornly living in the 21st century, The Artist is supreme 1920s retrovision: a black-and-white Hollywood melodrama, made in the old-fashioned 1.33:1 screen ratio, with intertitles, a continuous orchestral score, and almost no dialogue.
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Perhaps the leading British exponent of retrovision is Matthew Holness.
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In fact, The Artist gets away with a great deal thanks to the prism of retrovision.
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Perhaps one day those future historians will look back at our current efforts and say, "Oh, retrovision, that's so early 21st century."
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Holness seems to be bent on creating a whole retrovision universe.
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Or will retrovision become passé now that it's gone overground?
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Tellingly, Hazanavicius cut his teeth at the cult end of retrovision.
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