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series, in which the player-character is equipped with an advanced survival suit that projects holographic images to the character within the game's rendering engine that also serve as the game's user-interface to the player to show weapon selection, inventory management, and special actions that can
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for us where to look - and where not to look. In a similar way, editing causes us to jump from one place (and/or time) to another, whether it be elsewhere in the room, or across town. This jump is a form of narration; it is as if a narrator whispers to us: "meanwhile, on the other side of the
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narrative. However, the author may include elements that are not intended for the primary narrative, such as stories within stories. Characters and events may be referred to elsewhere or in historical contexts and are therefore outside the main story; thus, they are presented in an
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Thus, elements of a film can be "diegetic" or "non diegetic". These terms are most commonly used in reference to sound in a film. Most soundtrack music in films is non diegetic; heard by the audience, but not by the characters. Some films reverse this convention; for example,
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events which said story purports to tell. (It is the difference between seeing an intertitle reading "a week later," and simply waiting a week.) Diegesis may concern elements, such as characters, events, and things within the main or
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forest". It is for this reason that the "story-world" in cinema is referred to as "diegetic"; elements that belong to the film's narrative world are diegetic elements. This is why, in the cinema, we may refer to the film's
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In video games "diegesis" comprises the narrative game world, its characters, objects and actions which can be classified as "intra-diegetic", by both being part of the narration and not breaking the
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all parts of narratives—characters, narrators, existents, actors—are characterized in terms of diegesis. In literature, discussions of diegesis tend to concern discourse/sjužet (in
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employs diegetic music, played by the characters on music devices, to which many of the film's action scenes are set. These terms can also apply to other elements. For example, an
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that depicts something that is neither taking place in the world of the film, nor is seen, imagined, or thought by a character, is a
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In filmmaking the term is used to refer to the story as it is directly depicted onscreen, as opposed to the (typically much longer)
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Bunia, Remigius. 2010. "Diegesis and Representation: Beyond the Fictional World, on the Margins of Story and Narrative,"
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The classical distinction between the diegetic mode and the mimetic mode relates to the difference between the
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Details about the world itself and the experiences of its characters are revealed explicitly through narrative.
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In dramatic texts, the poet never speaks directly; in narrative texts, the poet speaks as herself or himself.
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See also Pfister (1977, 2–3) and Elam: "classical narrative is always oriented towards an explicit
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describes a character's ability to hear the music presented for the audience, in the context of
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events are those experienced by both the characters within a piece and the audience, while
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is that part of a diegesis that is embedded in another one and is often understood as a
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who speaks from "outside" in the form of commenting on the action or the characters.
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There is a presumed detachment from the story of both the speaker and the audience.
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storytelling in which a participating narrator offers an on-site, often interior,
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Gerald Prince, A Dictionary of Narratology, 2003, University of Nebraska Press,
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by a narrator. The narrator may speak as a particular character, or may be the
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them through narration, while drama enacts stories through direct embodiment (
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is understood as the level of the characters, their thoughts and actions. The
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Coyle, R. (2004). Pop goes the music track. Metro Magazine, 140, 94–95.
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describing the actions and, in some cases, thoughts, of one or more
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The story is told or recounted, as opposed to shown or enacted.
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narration (with some exceptions) are also non-diegetic.
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Aristotle. 1974. "Poetics". Trans. S.H. Butcher. In
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elements; this is determined by the technologies of
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Ancient Greek
διήγησις
διηγεῖσθαι
fiction
view
subjectively
characters
fourth wall
Diegesis in music
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