Susan Stewart has argued that the appeal of miniature writing, specifically of the miniature book, coincided with the transition from one technology to another (with the invention of printing): On the interface between the manuscript and printing, the miniature book is a celebration of a new technology, yet a nostalgic creation endowed with the significance the manuscript formerly possessed. (Stewart, 39) The appeal of the excess rapidity of these montages likewise redoubles a nostalgic immersion in cinema’s past, by way of the new media discourses of the millennial globalized “Hollywood,”.
