What is "flashback"

flashback \flashback\ n.

1. a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene; also, the scene thus introduced.

2. An unusually vivid recollection of a prior experience, often one that is traumatic, such as scenes from combat or a criminal assault, or induced by hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD; when accompanied by hallucinations it is called flashback hallucinosis.

also flash-back, 1903 in reference to fires in engines or furnaces, from verbal phrase (1902), from flash (v.) + back (adv.). Movie plot device sense is from 1916. The hallucinogenic drug sense is attested in psychological literature from 1970, which means probably hippies were using it a few years before.

n. 1 a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative 2 (context psychology English) a vivid mental image of a past trauma, especially one that recurs 3 a similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug 4 the condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system vb. (cx intransitive English) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.

1. n. a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story [ant: flash-forward]

2. an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)

Flashback or flashbacks may refer to:

• Flashback (narrative), in literature and dramatic media, an interjected scene or point that takes the narrative back in time from the current point
  • Flashback episode, an episode of a television series that consists primarily of excerpts from previous episodes
• Flashback (psychology), in which a memory is suddenly and unexpectedly revisited
  • Acid flashback, a reported psychological phenomenon in which an individual experiences an episode of some of LSD's subjective effects long after the drug has worn off
• Flashback (welding), a dangerous hazard of using an oxyacetylene torch
• Flashback arrestor, a device most commonly used in oxy-fuel welding and cutting to stop the flame from burning back up into the equipment

Flashback, released as Flashback: The Quest for Identity in the United States, is a 1992 science fiction cinematic platform game developed by Delphine Software of France and published by U.S. Gold in United States and Europe, and Sunsoft in Japan.

The game was directed, written/designed and partially programmed by Paul Cuisset, who had previously created the adventure game Future Wars. Flashback was initially released for the Amiga in 1992, then ported to MS-DOS, Acorn Archimedes, Mega Drive/Genesis and Super NES in 1993. CD-ROM versions of Flashback for the Sega CD, 3DO, CD-i, MS-DOS, Apple Macintosh and the FM Towns were released during 1994 and 1995, together with a cartridge version for the Atari Jaguar in 1995.

Originally advertised as a " CD-ROM game on a cartridge", the game features fully hand-drawn backdrops and all animation is rotoscoped, giving movements an unusual fluidity, similar to that of the earlier Prince of Persia. The capture technique of Flashback was invented independently of Prince of Persia, and used a more complicated method of first tracing video images onto transparencies.

The game was a commercial and critical success and was listed in the Guinness World Records as the best-selling French game of all time. It was followed by a sequel titled Fade to Black in 1995. In 2013, a Flashback remake by VectorCell was released for the PC and consoles.

Flashback is the second box set compilation by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in November 2000 in the US and the following month in the UK.

A flashback, or involuntary recurrent memory, is a psychological phenomenon in which an individual has a sudden, usually powerful, re-experiencing of a past experience or elements of a past experience. These experiences can be happy, sad, exciting, or any other emotion one can consider. The term is used particularly when the memory is recalled involuntarily, and/or when it is so intense that the person "relives" the experience, unable to fully recognize it as memory and not something that is happening in "real time".

Flashback is a 1990 American adventure comedy film starring Dennis Hopper, Kiefer Sutherland and Carol Kane, written by David Loughery and directed by Franco Amurri. The film received an R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

Flashback is a Flash animation by Danny Gomez. It has been widely circulated around the Internet, especially in psychedelic trance and goa trance communities. For many others, outside of these communities, it served as their first introduction to this genre of music.

The animation starts out from a fly's point of view traversing through a landscape and various rooms in a city. It flies into a psychiatrist's office, where a patient (Gomez, credited as "Someone Else"), complains to his doctor (credit as " Albert Hofmann as Doc") that he suffers from hallucinations. The doctor decides to introduce a new experimental hypnosis influenced by shamanic medicine, by lighting an incense candle and banging on a drum, which apparently causes the patient to go into a trance. The rest of the video features psychedelic music and intense imagery, the images taken from the artwork 'Discover', also by Danny Gomez. The video ends with the camera following the same path as the fly originally did at the start, and then going into a green wireframe tunnel, where at the end, a three-eyed cartoon face repeats the phrase "Då var det slut" (subtitled as "This intro was too loooong"), which is Swedish for "Then it was over."

Flashback serves as an unauthorized music video for Shpongle's track "Divine Moments of Truth" from the Are You Shpongled? album. While it is not clear whether or not the band endorses the work, they have made no attempt to have it removed from circulation even though the Shpongle Mask is also used in the video. The video is currently featured on Shpongle's MySpace profile.

At the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, the American psychedelic artist Alex Grey cited the Swedish artist Danny Gomez as one of his personal favorites and the open and official discussion after the lecture returned to the artist and his work several times.

A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story's primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory. In the opposite direction, a flashforward (or prolepsis) reveals events that will occur in the future. Both flashback and flashforward are used to cohere a story, develop a character, or add structure to the narrative. In literature, internal analepsis is a flashback to an earlier point in the narrative; external analepsis is a flashback to a time before the narrative started.

In movies and television, several camera techniques and special effects have evolved to alert the viewer that the action shown is a flashback or flashforward; for example, the edges of the picture may be deliberately blurred, photography may be jarring or choppy, or unusual coloration or sepia tone, or monochrome when most of the story is in full color, may be used.

"Flashback" is the 44th episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager airing on the UPN network. It is the second episode of the third season.

The series follows the adventures of the Federation starship Voyager during its journey home to Earth, having been stranded tens of thousands of light-years away. In this episode, Captain Janeway must help Lt. Tuvok delve into his past to understand a memory triggered by the sight of a spatial phenomenon.

This episode was produced, along with Star Trek: Deep Space Nines " Trials and Tribble-ations" as part of the Star Trek franchise's 30th anniversary. It is noteworthy for featuring characters of the Original Series and related feature films, most noticeably Hikaru Sulu ( George Takei) and Janice Rand ( Grace Lee Whitney). Both characters appear by means of a flashback by Tuvok, relating to some of the events previously depicted in the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

The episode was premiered at the fan-run not-for-profit UK convention "Delta Quadrant" held at the Britannia Hotel in Birmingham City Centre in August 1996. The episode was first shown during the evening of 9 August 1996 from a VHS video cassette in the care of the convention's organiser Bob Hollocks.

Flashback was a steel roller coaster made by Intamin of Switzerland. The coaster was located in the Six Flags Plaza area of Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California.

Flashback is a steel roller coaster of shuttle design currently in use at Six Flags New England & Six Flags Great Escape.The ride has one train with a capacity of twenty-eight riders, two across in each row. When the coaster starts, the train is pulled backwards up the lift hill, then dropped through the loading gate through a cobra roll and then one loop. At the end of this cycle, the train is pulled up the lift hill at the end of the track, then released, allowing the train to go back through the loops backwards, hence the name of the coaster. The ride is an off-the-shelf Vekoma Boomerang design common in many amusement parks.

Flashback (Gardner Monroe) is a fictional mutant character in the . His first appearance was in Alpha Flight #1.

Flashback is the fourth studio album by Swedish singer/songwriter Darin Zanyar. It was released on December 3, 2008 in Sweden and became Darin's 4th top 10 album. It features the physical singles Breathing Your Love and What If plus the digital singles Runaway and See U At The Club. This is the first album to see Darin contributing both musically and lyrically, this occurs on all but one track. The song "Karma" feat. David Jassy was released to the Swedish radio station "The Voice" and holds the position 12 at the "Voice Topp 20".

Flashback is the fifth studio album by Puerto Rican reggaetón recording artist Ivy Queen, released on October 4, 2005 through Univision and on September 15, 2007 as Greatest Hits in Germany and Spain. It is often considered as a studio-compilation release due to the amount of the album being previously released material. Queen began working on Flashback after the moderate success of Real in early 2005. Featuring content dating back to 1995, when she was still a part of the all-male group The Noise, the album includes four new pieces of work all produced by Rafi Mercenario, the genre's most requested record producer at the time.

The four tracks were written and recorded after the end of Queen's nine-year marriage to Omar Navarro, months before the album's release. Lyrically, the remaining sixteen tracks tell stories of female empowerment, love and heartbreak and sociopolitical criticism. Following an international tour of South America which began in 2004 and presentations in the United States, Ivy Queen partnered with the co-founder of Perfect Image Records, José Guadalupe, to form her own record label Filtro Musik and signed a distribution deal with Univision Music Group in 2005. She was previously signed to Guadalupe's independent label Perfect Image Records which was distributed by Universal Music Latino. The Flashback Tour was launched in September 2005 to promote the album.

It spawned three singles, " Cuéntale", " Te He Querido, Te He Llorado", and " Libertad", all of which reached the Top 10 of various Latin charts in the United States. Commercially successful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the Billboard 200. It also reached number seven on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the Billboard Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and Billboard Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart. It reached number three on the newly instated Billboard Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen.

The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, " In The Zone", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album, but complimented the album's track list. It became one of the best-selling reggaetón albums of 2005 along with Real, when sales of both albums went "through the roof". This gained Queen several nominations for awards. At the Billboard Latin Music Awards 2006, it was nominated for "Reggaetón Album of the Year" and for " Urban Album of the Year" at the Premio Lo Nuestro 2007 award ceremony. It received a nomination for "Compilation Album of the Year" at the 2007 People's Choice Reggaetón and Urban Awards.

Flashback is the eighth studio album, and a compilation album of outtakes and rare songs released by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. The album was initially released in late 1993 and was reissued in 1998 with a slightly different track listing. The 1998 version dropped five tracks from the 1993 release: " Summertime Blues", " Louie Louie", " Star Star", "Stand Up for Yourself," and " Call Me Lightning" and replaced them with "Real Wild Child (Wild One)", a live version of " Bad Reputation", and "Right 'Til the End", which was only available on the cassette version of the 1993 release. "Call Me Lightning" and "Summertime Blues" were later added as bonus tracks on reissues of Bad Reputation and "Louie Louie" became a bonus track on the reissue of I Love Rock 'N Roll. "Star Star" was included as an unlisted "surprise" track on the 1983 cassette release of Album, but was later removed after the original cassette was pulled from some stores because of non-labelled "explicit" track lyrics. The song was restored on the CD release.

Flashback is a 1969 Italian drama film directed by Raffaele Andreassi. The film received many awards; Globo d'oro, Grolla Silver premium (Saint Vincent), Award of Tourism & Entertainment and Silverstar Festival San Francisco. It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Palm. At the festival the film received standing ovations.

"Flashback" is a song by Scottish musician Calvin Harris from his second studio album, Ready for the Weekend (2009). The song was released in the UK on 2 November 2009 and features Jordanian singer Ayah Marar. Harris and Marar would later work together again on Harris's 2013 single " Thinking About You".

Flashback was a Canadian quiz show television series which aired on CBC Television from 1962 to 1968.

"Flashback" is the 148th episode of the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives. It is the fourteenth episode of the show's seventh season and was broadcast on February 13, 2011.

"Flashback" is the fifth Korean single album released by South Korean girl group, After School. The maxi-single marks the first appearance of fifth generation member, Kaeun. This also marks the first comeback since Kahi's official graduation from the group to pursue a solo career.

Flashback is an American radio show syndicated by Cumulus Media Networks (formerly Citadel Media and ABC Radio). Flashback plays a diverse mix of classic rock from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Other show elements include newscasts, classic TV and movie clips, commercials and comedy bits to create thematic segments from the 1960s into the 1990s. The four-hour program is syndicated to over 200 radio affiliates in the United States and Canada.

Flashback was originally hosted by voiceover artist Bill St. James. In January 2012 he was replaced by Matt Pinfield, who currently hosts 120 Minutes on MTV2 and is a former DJ and record executive. Pinfield told the website All Access "I am so honored to have been selected" and "It's the music I grew up with and can personally relate to."

Flashback is the third album by pianist Don Friedman which was recorded in 1963 and released on the Riverside label.

Flashback is a science fiction platform video game remake of the original 1992 Flashback. The game was developed by the original game designer, Paul Cuisset, with his studio, VectorCell, and published by Ubisoft. The game was released on August 21, 2013 on Xbox Live Arcade.