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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"diegetic"”.
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Dramatic Impulse: Diegetic Music in the Operas of Giacomo Puccini
<p>This dissertation examines diegetic music as a rationale for the juxtaposition of traditional and modern idioms in operas by Giacomo Puccini. Through this perspective, I consider the resulting unevenness of style in Puccini’s works as an expression of the music’s dramatic function, rather than a …
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Diegetic stories in a video mediation: a narrative analysis of four videos
… trajectory of time and compass of space. The diegetic content is conditional, in the way that the memory of an experience is. For this reason, the analysis commences from the nodes and difficulties of the present diegeses, namely, the moments of dislocation, disarticulation, fragmentation and …
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An investigation of priming, self-consciousness, and allegiance in the diegetic camera horror film
… underpinning this study asks why and how the diegetic camera technique has become so popular to both contemporary horror filmmakers and audiences. In order to answer this question, this thesis adopts a mainly cognitive theoretical framework in order to address the mental schemata and processes …
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Korngold's Dream States: An Analysis of Transitional Passages in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Opera "Die tote Stadt"
… approach to explain the transitions between the diegetic realms, or multiple narrative levels, that the work is contained within. These are outlined by William Cheng in his article entitled “Opera ‘en abyme’: The prodigious ritual of Korngold’s ‘Die tote Stadt.’” An overview of Cheng’s article is …
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Soundtracking American smart cinema: self-expression, identity and alienation
… demonstrates a variation in its use of the diegetic soundtrack. This has allowed characters within its narratives to use the expressive qualities offered by listening and consuming music, furthering their desires to communicate with other characters and regulate their sense of self-identity. …
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The Representation of Disability in the Music of Alfred Hitchcock Films
… and identity in the context of two pieces of diegetic music. Hitchcock made careful notes for the music in his films; songs represent disability through lyrics and in their use as part of a film’s underscore in specific scenes. When a non-diegetic orchestral score accompanied one of his films, …
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The Possibilities of Sort Of
… Using the film theory construct of extra-diegetic and relative qualifier 'sort of' to investigate Pulp Fiction, Bose Wave CD player, Sunset Boulevard, American Apparel, and The Uncanny.
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What Is That Song? : Aleksej Balabanov's Brother and Rock as Film Music in Russian Cinema
… Central concepts are Claudia Gorbman’s (1987) diegetic and non-diegetic music and Guido Heldt’s (2013) theoretization on film music, authorship and subjectivity. The study shows that the use of rock songs in Soviet-era Russian films goes through three stages. First they are used as exceptions …
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Accessibility and Authenticity in Julia Smith's Cynthia Parker
… to define characters. Folk music is presented as diegetic, creating a sense of authenticity that places the audience into the opera's Western setting. The opera is codified for the audience using popular idioms, resulting in initial but not lasting success.
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Behind the curtain: composing acousmatic sounds and 3D CGI
… of audiovisual composition and propose a ‘diegetic’ compositional method where sounds and images derive from a common (3D) world and their causal relationships are manipulated to enhance their perceptual balance. The methodology for this research consisted of experimenting with …
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The Representation of Mexican Identity through Music in the Films of Emilio ‘Indio’ Fernández (1940-1950)
… thesis explores the dramatic function of both diegetic (onscreen) and non-diegetic (background) music in relation to the narrative and visual elements of the films.
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South African film music: representation of racial, cultural and national identities, 1931-1969
… This representation remains within the ambit of diegetic music, however, and frequently maintains a subject/object relationship regarding white/black representation. Secondly, the use of diegetic African music functions as a form of othering, creating an illusion of representational …
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Bending Family Friendly into Fear: Nostalgia, Minstrelsy and Horror in Bendy and the Ink Machine
… gameic gaze, which lingers on the bending of the diegetic cartoons. Bendy and the Ink Machine actualizes the historical contorting of the Black body starting in slavery and continued by the entertainment industry through bending. Bending and the Ink Machine makes the minstrel origins of cartoons …
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Of Manses and Convents: Violence, Memory, and Identity in Casablanca la bella by Fernando Vallejo and En el lejero by Evelio Rosero Diago
This thesis examines the ways in which the diegetic spaces of the manses and convents as portrayed in two Colombian novels, Casablanca la bella (2013) by Fernando Vallejo and En el lejero (2007) by Evelio Rosero Diago serve as scenarios for the representation of the violences that pervade …
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Language, emotion, and imagination: Constructing human identity through Hemingway's work
… to immerse themselves in fiction because this diegetic process helps them to construct their identities as humans.</p>
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“Such a sort of pariah”: Psychosocial Marginality and the Bildungsroman in Mazo de la Roche’s Whiteoaks
… subversive otherness, Finch must navigate the diegetic realm’s social boundaries and liminal spaces through a series of “double lives,” in which the other is ultimately found within the home context and potentially subversive centralities outside of Jalna are sacrificed for the sake of …
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Female Pleasure and Theories of Desire in Narrative Structure: Evolution, Futurity, and Species Survival in the Post-Human and Science Fiction Imaginary
… potentiality beyond the activity of the diegetic text. In <em>Mass Effect 3</em>, the third installment of the massively successful video game franchise, the protests of dissatisfied gamers resulted in the creation of new ending options, revealing how quiescence can also be understood as …
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Paul Auster's writing machine: A thing to write with
… parts (a story, a character, a plot situation, a diegetic space). This study does this by following, in terms of Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory, the meanings and work of several recurrent "things" in Auster's texts, such as cigarettes, typewriters and doppelgängers, which together assemble …
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Tudor women writers fashioning masculinity
… which female characters within texts compete for diegetic control with male protagonists.
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Your Self Again: Clones, Originals, and True Selves of Science Fiction
… fictional characters, I also experiment with the diegetic prototypes of cloning. The commentary on my SF novel engages with the aims and objectives of the critical part of this project and, at the same time, serves as a diagnostic reflection on clone characterisation.
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