RHETOR 138 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Diegesis, Netflix, Taxicab
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Narrational mode: context in which we consider narrative complexity. 1990 changes that affect narrative complexity: watchability (netflix, dvd, vcr, movement of talent from film to tv (david lunch, jass wheeler, reality tv becomes popular. Operational aesthetic: attention shifts from diegetic to metadiegetic: how did she/he do that: on the levels of episode/ season/ series. Most successful in striking the balance between episodic and serial: buffy. Identity: closure and openness/ internal to the beat is the structure that generates satisfaction and expectation. Thematic and/or story e. g. in sherlock: theme- drawn to danger, in the end we see kinship between sherlock and watson, story- mystery of murderers and cabbie. Music is character or music reveals character. Music associated with each character: repetition satisfy continuity, changes/ naturity satify newness. The song associated with one character interacts with songs associated with another characters in scenes and episodes.
