FIST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Diegesis
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Applies to all films, even weird films. In order for a film to dismantle these things, it has to know what it"s dissembling, consumes. Films don"t have forever to establish a plot. Yet all the stuff we don"t see + assumptions = story. *think of each film as its own world with its own logic and rules, which you are prepared to believe - comes from the belief that characters have contexts and histories you make assumptions. Story: all the events in the film and all the inferences we have - also called diegesis. Plot: the action that is visibly and audibly presented in the film before us. Diegesis: everything that is assumed to exist in the world that the film depicts. Non-diegesis: everything outside the film that the characters can"t interact with but can reveal information. Just what we experience, no context, assumptions. *we learn about a film"s story through plot.
