It therefore appears that the practice might problematise the classical pairing of mimesis (showing) anddiegesis(telling).
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The impossibility of the opera film might ultimately lie in the impossibility of constructing itsdiegesis, in the very impossibility of filmic representation.
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In addition, film is usually treated in terms of notions ofdiegesis/narrative.
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Faced with an environment rather than a contained image, the viewer experiences a continuousdiegesisnot possible in other moving-imagebased artforms.
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A priori, the terms 'diegetic music' and 'non-diegetic music' situate film music as measured against the 'diegesis'.
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My circling around the subject betrays a reversible relation between sound and image: that music can be variably repositioned; that it can confuse boundaries ofdiegesis, authorship and subjectivity.
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But if other films tend to use this confusion to propel theirdiegesis, this film cuts short the primary drama of misrecognition soon after it begins.
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His monsters appear slowly, at the beginning as scratches on the film stock, someplace in between thediegesisand the actual world.
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Within thediegesis, the melody sets off a nervous reaction in the protagonist, who associates it with the horror of being buried alive.
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He distinguishes between narration or report ("diegesis") and imitation or representation ("mimesis").
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He distinguishes between narration or report (diegesis) and imitation or representation (mimesis).
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This all-encompassing art, or, called on thediegesisof in order to further the immersive feel.
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Images must be cut, dialogue overdubbed or deleted, and explicit messages and subtle implications excised from what the argot of film criticism calls thediegesis.
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Put simply, thediegesisis the world of the film, the universe inhabited by the characters existing in the landscape of cinema.
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Diegesismay concern elements, such as characters, events and things within the main or "primary" narrative.
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