Hi there,
Digisis is a generic word,which is reference to the
processes that are part of Digital world, for cinema being
one from from a modern interpretation. So it is not
necessary to be enamored by the word simply because
semiotic way of studying and analyzing film has given way
to multiple interpretations and many a coined words.
regards,
Indrakaran.
--- Jim Flannery <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Monday, October 3, 2005, 1:12:25 AM, one spoke:
>
> M> i sense in my simply queries seeming inability to get
> a
> M> real direct answer (those who attempted to reply
> cantell
> M> me that i have afailure to understand words..but all i
> M> know is i still don'tknow what the fuck 'diegesis'
> means
>
> Mikal,
>
> Part of the difficulty of communicating it is that it's
> the bit that
> we manage unconsciously, while (naively) watching a film
> -- it's what
> a (non-theorist, non-academic, non-filmmaker) would say
> the film is
> "about".
>
> Try this: a film has characters, events, and places in it
> ("John Brown
> walks up the mountain") ... those things are all part of
> the diegesis.
> The medium shot is not, nor is the actor playing John
> Brown, nor are
> the editorial ellipses that allow him to make that
> three-hour hike in
> three minutes. In the diegetic world of the film, the
> rest of those
> three hours happened, and we understand that they
> happened. If
> something else is happening simultaneously to somebody
> else somewhere
> else in the diegetic world of the film, we may see that
> in parallel
> montage (a common way of collapsing those three hours),
> or we may see
> it in flashback later in the film; those are strategies
> for
> *representing* the simultaneity of the events, but the
> events are
> simultaneous in the diegesis regardless of which is used.
>
> --
> Jim Flannery
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> np:
> nr:
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