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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"diegesis"”.
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DIEGESIS A multi-agent Digital Interactive Storytelling framework using planning and re-planning techniques
… a novel multi-agent DIS framework called DIEGESIS, which includes –among other novel aspects- two new DIS-focused planning and re-planning algorithms.To ensure that our framework and its algorithms have met the specifications we set, we created a large scale evaluation scenario which …
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Hypertextuality in the diegesis of the megamusical: the aesthetic and cognitive relationship between silent era film and contemporary musical theatre
… silent films both present a distinctive type of diegesis that is palimpsestic, topographic, reflexive and postdramatic. Musical theatre’s hypertextuality is the key to accessing the elusive relationship and understanding that silent film felt much like the megamusical for its early twentieth …
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Diegetic stories in a video mediation: a narrative analysis of four videos
… arising from the videotic realisation of a diegesis. The text also works to expose and articulate aspects of the structuration of a videotic diegesis, and to identify key research questions, methodologies and research contexts. The practical element of the doctoral project includes the video …
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"Telling Balzac's Stories: Narration, Narrators, and Narratees in ""La Comedie Humaine"""
The faults between the layers of diegesis enable the informed reader to enter the Balzacian world, and to appreciate the instability of this supposedly monolithic text. This is Balzac's ultimate triumph: His artistic reproduction of early nineteenth-century France is not a still-life; rather it is, …
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"It's Like We Were Being Watched ... Like There Were Only 3 Walls, And Not a Fourth Wall": Manifestations of Metafiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
… be housed outside of the tradition space of the diegesis in favor of a paratextual element instead. <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em> serves here as the primary example of this paratextual application towards television with regards to metafictional conflation. </p>
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We’ll have a gay ol’ time : transgressive sexuality and sexual taboo in adult television animation
… how these are articulated within the animated diegesis. The findings reveal the mutuality between the plasticity of animation, which lends itself to shaping physical representations of reality, and the complex social processes of non-violent cathartic ideological expressions that redefine …
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Playing for keeps : an examination of arepp : Theatre for Life's applied theatre pedagogy with regards to adolescent sexuality
… the 'eventness' of theatre, narrative and diegesis are key to the conceptual framework within which arepp: Theatre for Life's use of theatre is examined. The arepp: Theatre for Life archive, including the organisation's internal monitoring and evaluation system, provide the primary data …
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Presenting Korea's Past: Melodrama, Spectacle, and Democracy in Post-2000 Historical Films
… genre of sagŭk in South Korea in the 2000s. The diegesis of sagŭk film portrays premodern dynastic eras of Korea. This project analyzes the evolution of the genre by genealogically tracing its rise and fall and investigates determinants of the genre’s consequential comeback since the new …
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Comics in education. The link between visual and verbal literacy: how readers read comics
… understands the comic at the higher level of the diegesis by switching between signifying systems. The research findings suggest that the reading of comics requires visual and verbal intermediate literacy skills and that textual coherence occurs for readers when they reach the critical point in …
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Multi-modal reinforcement learning with videogame audio to learn sonic features
… video games, supplemented with introductions to diegesis theory and Western classical music theory. Second, we provide methods for extracting, processing, visualizing, and hearing gameplay audio alongside video, building off of Open AI's Gym Retro framework. Third, we train RL agents to play on …
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Engaging with comedy as social conscience in Terry Pratchett’s “Discworld”
… themes were evident in the Discworld diegesis.
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Puppets between human, animal and machine: towards the modes of movement contesting the anthropocentric view of life in animation
… a puppet depicted as a puppet per se in the film diegesis, which problematises the impression of life even if appearing to move on screen. A related focus in my thesis is the mode of movement which functions as a visual and physical parameter in order to analyse what an animated (or static) figure …
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From Novel to Film: Claude Chabrol's adaptations of Ruth Rendell's A Judgement in Stone (La Ceremonie) And The Bridesmaid (La Demoiselle d'Honneur)
… of focalisation and organisation of the diegesis will be dealt with by using Genette’s criteria. Narrative tools will be compared to filmic ones and the study will evidence differences in the range of devices each artist might use, and their different effects. The study of these two cases …
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A Sad, Sad Ghost Picking at the Hairs of Their Knuckles
… speaking of the narratological relations between diegesis and spectator; or are we speaking of the psychoanalytical evocations that the form of an image holds, as, then, extrapolated by the spectator? What is narrative in the cinema What can it be? What is performance in the cinema? How has the …
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Memorable Acts/active Rememberers: Contemporary Canadian Memory Plays
… telling. The unusual coalition of mimesis and diegesis provides an excellent forum in which to explore memory. What does the past, personal and communal, mean to us--and how do we make it meaningful? These issues link the Canadian memory plays which will be discussed herein.;Hayden White has …
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Rete simbolica e dinamiche della memoria nella trilogia della guerra civile di Juan Eduardo Zúñiga
… dynamics of memory and oblivion structure the diegesis. The result is a complex panorama made of tradition and innovation created by Zúñiga to give testimony of the controversial age that he lived, as citizen and historical witness, in order to transmit and preserve the historical memory …
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What Is That Song? : Aleksej Balabanov's Brother and Rock as Film Music in Russian Cinema
… they are ambivalent in their relationship to the diegesis. A struggle emerges between the author-narrator and the main character over the music and this can be read as a self-reflective commentary on the development of the use of rock in Russian cinema. The overall path of rock songs in Russian …
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EVASIONI ALLO SPECCHIO: EVOLUZIONE E ASPETTI DELLA NARRATIVA DI ARTURO LORIA DAI PRIMI INEDITI A "LA SCUOLA DI BALLO"
… becomes less and less audible and how the diegesis shifts decisively into mimesis. Additionally, I underline how the modernity of contents is not mirrored in the forms of expression. Unable to conceive his own art if not in ways which Loria himself perceived as non-topical, with his stories …
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The Possibilities of Sort Of
Simultaneity and conflict are incessant qualities one is confronted with when looking at things. Shifting from familiar to foreign, from present to implied. There seems to be a tendency, if not necessity to embrace this multiplicity. Using the film theory construct of extra-diegetic and relative …
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Impact Fiction: the Gentle Art of Bending the Near Future.
This dissertation presents, and performs, a novel way of practicing design, to inform the core methodology of a new design practice; one seeking near future impact-innovation outcomes — cornerstoned to build Agency for our Elder* segment. The mainstay thesis question, evolved to ask: ‘How can …