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• Nonlinear narrativeBroader topic: Shows how a later point in the telling can reveal an earlier cause.

• MemoirRelated: Memoirs often move between the time of writing and scenes from the past.

• Narrative structureRelated: A flashback relocates information in the telling without changing the event chronology.

• DissociationCompared with: Flashbacks can include dissociative features but are not synonymous with dissociation.

• The Great GatsbyRelated: Recollections of Gatsby and Daisy’s earlier relationship reveal what Gatsby hopes to restore.

• Cross-cuttingCompared with: A flashback moves backward in time, whereas cross-cutting often suggests concurrent action.

• StorytellingBroader topic: A flashback supplies past events at a chosen point in the telling.

• NarrationBroader topic: A flashback supplies earlier events from within a later narrative moment.

• The Remains of the DayRelated: Stops along Stevens’s journey trigger memories that carry the novel’s central history.

• RashomonRelated: The alleged crime is replayed through testimony as separate visual recollections.

• Framing deviceCompared with: A flashback shifts narrative time, while a frame establishes a containing narrative level.

• Once Upon a Time in the WestRelated: The film delays the explanation of Harmonica’s history until its climactic confrontation.

• Alain ResnaisRelated: His films often blur the boundary between flashback and present action.

• Brief EncounterRelated: The film unfolds as Laura recalls the affair after it has ended.

• The Godfather Part IIRelated: The Vito sequences function as extended flashbacks within Michael’s story.

• The Grand Budapest HotelRelated: The story repeatedly moves into earlier decades to explain how the hotel reached its diminished present.

• Autobiographical filmRelated: It lets a film stage personal memories as scenes from the past.

• Intrusive thoughtCompared with: A flashback is tied to traumatic memory and reliving, unlike intrusive thoughts more broadly.

• Hiroshima mon amourRelated: The French woman’s memories of Nevers interrupt her days in Hiroshima.

• JuliaRelated: The film frames its wartime episodes as memories recounted by an older Hellman.

• Mildred PierceRelated: Mildred’s testimony organizes much of the film as a retrospective account.

• The NotebookRelated: The younger Noah and Allie appear through memories narrated in the care home.

• Exposition (narrative)Related: Flashbacks deliver past events directly instead of summarizing them as background.

• To Kill a MockingbirdRelated: The film frames its recollections as Scout’s remembered childhood.

• The Death of Ivan IlyichRelated: Recollections of Ivan’s career and marriage let him measure his past against his present suffering.

• The SeaRelated: Recollections of the Grace family interrupt and reshape Max’s present-day account.

• War novelRelated: Returning to earlier scenes can connect present trauma to the experiences that produced it.

• KādambarīRelated: Accounts of earlier lives repeatedly interrupt the present action.

• Literary deviceRelated: Reordered time reveals information that changes how present events are understood.

• Rajkumar HiraniRelated: Several films frame past events through characters recalling or recounting them.

• Elmer RiceRelated: On Trial builds its courtroom revelations by moving backward through events.

• Light in AugustRelated: Backstory explains how the central characters arrived at their present crises.

• My ÁntoniaRelated: Jim’s story moves between recollected childhood episodes and later encounters.

• Nitesh TiwariRelated: Chhichhore shifts between college days and the characters' adult lives.

• The ClassicRelated: The earlier love story unfolds through extended scenes set in the past.

• The Golden GirlsRelated: Characters’ remembered experiences let the show stage stories beyond the Miami household.

• Paul ScottRelated: Recollections repeatedly recast the past and connect later consequences to earlier decisions.