Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to artistic elements that are perceived as existing within the world depicted in a narrative work.
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- adjective of, or relating to
diegesis - adjective of film music that occurs as part of the
action (rather than as background), and can be heard by the film's characters
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Examples
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I mean, this rather implies that engaging in art which accomodates the marvelous and the diegetic is an effective way to process trauma and come to terms with it.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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I use the phrase diegetic representation, however, in a much narrower sense: to describe the graphical elements in any given panel that make sense only in the individual comic's diegesis and in the flow of the information disseminated by the comic's narrative.
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I use the phrase diegetic representation, however, in a much narrower sense: to describe the graphical elements in any given panel that make sense only in the individual comic's diegesis and in the flow of the information disseminated by the comic's narrative.
unknown title 2008
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The word "diegetic" is derived from "diegesis," a storytelling term originally in Aristotle's
unknown title 2008
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The word "diegetic" is derived from "diegesis," a storytelling term originally in Aristotle's
unknown title 2008
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At least the naivety of those “genre” novels has been put in its place; these pretend to be proper books, with complex approaches to trauma, even as in their use of the strange and the diegetic they seek to infiltrate and undermine the literary order — which is to say the self-sustaining absolutes, the “what is, is” of maieutic miserablism.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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The difference between us here is maybe just that I focus on the diegetic, the storyfication, rather than the magic, because I think detectives, cowboys, lederhosen-wearing peasants and all manner of non-magical tropes are a big part of the picture.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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The blurring of the lines between diegetic and non-diegetic sound and music in Halo 2 is a powerful technique that, in my mind, makes the sonic material all the more powerful.
The Audio of Halo Wars – A victim of unambitious design Ben Abraham 2009
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The mixing of multiple cameras on screen at once would mess up the diegetic space for the audience and horrific in 3D.
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At least the naivety of those “genre” novels has been put in its place; these pretend to be proper books, with complex approaches to trauma, even as in their use of the strange and the diegetic they seek to infiltrate and undermine the literary order — which is to say the self-sustaining absolutes, the “what is, is” of maieutic miserablism.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
lampbane commented on the word diegetic
Possibly Wikipedia's second-most overused word, after portmanteau.
March 26, 2009
brooklynite commented on the word diegetic
In filmmaking, the term is used to include elements of a story that appear in the action on screen. To take the example of music, the cantina band scene in the original Star Wars is an example of diegetic music, where characters in the bar listen and dance to the music. The dramatic orchestral music — which ran in the background as various fighter planes blew each other up—is nondiegetic.
October 11, 2016