RLG232H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cinema Paradiso, Stories We Tell, Diegesis
Document Summary
The theatre is visible in the shot, and so are the sound effects coming from the movie playing within cinema paradiso. sound effects, music, and voiceover. sound comes from a source that is not visible to the audience. This includes: non-diegetic, another term for non-diegetic sound is commentary sound. Non-diegetic sound is used in the opening scene of stories we tell, when michael polley reads the quote by atwood, Epistemology: apocalypticism, knowledge, and the nuclear uncanny in kiss me. Offering us a glimpse into a world of corruption and deceit in which people seem to have lost a stable sense of identity, history, and knowledge because of the excesses of consumerism, kiss. Me deadly condemns what it sees as the sleazy immorality of post-war los angeles: this term is connected to kiss me deadly as there is a desire of absolute knowledge, which leads to the utter destruction.
