Paul Willemen (Looks and Frictions) calls this the fourth look (the
first three being the audience's look at the screen, the camera's
look on the world it is recording, and diegetic characters looking
diegetically).
To account for the unavoidably imaginary element involved here, one
should distinguish between (nonfictional) actors addressing the
camera, and (fictional) characters addressing the (nondiegetic)
audience.
H
> I'm looking for some writing about the device in fiction films in
> which a character addresses, or apparently addresses, the audience.
> By 'apparently', I mean those moments, for example in Woody Allen,
> when a character speaks to their analyst or is interviewed:
> Interiors, Husbands and Wives, Take the Money and Run et al.
>
> Incidentally, is their a technical term here? By 'direct address',
> I'm hoping people know what I mean. Looking in Konigsberg's Film
> Dictionary, I cannot find an entry, which is not to say there isn't
> one...
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Richard
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