To my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.
Hollis FramptonA specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a Devil, then we must cast it out. But we cannot know what it is until we have met it face to face.
Hollis Frampton