Definition of diegesis in English:

diegesis

nounPlural diegeses ˌdʌɪəˈdʒiːsɪsˌdīəˈjēsis

A narrative or plot, typically in a film.
（多指电影中的）叙述；情节
Example sentencesExamples
- Non-narrative surfaces and textures that would in a single-channel movie seem like radical departures from the diegesis emerge and recede without halting the flow of the story.
- The diegesis of Memoirs of a Midget, if not exactly traditional in every respect, nevertheless belongs to genres with which we are familiar.
- For instance, Pop Music begins the historical investigation of how popular music and musicians tell stories with a study of filmic diegesis, or what Donnelly describes as ‘the story world.’
- These genres are not only the surface texture of the film but they are doubled and quoted directly via the insertion of film clips into the diegesis.
- This is what Olivier demonstrated in Henry V, when the doors of the theatrical first act literally open themselves up to a boundless panorama, the diegesis of the whole earth and not the altar of the stage.
- Background music is not part of the diegesis of the film and has the potential to create confusion.
- Sometimes, enunciation pierces through narration with ostentatious camera moves or reflexive images, but it finds itself swallowed by the diegesis in the end.
- It is true that the tropes and symbols that actualize the structure of the lyric, and the diegesis actualizing narrative structures, are all referential, rooted in mores, in ideologies-rooted in history.
- Indeed, Rushdie's first novel Grimus is cast in the shape of Dantean katabasis, both in the diegesis of a descent journey and in the ethical framework of what Brennan refers to as Rushdie's ‘coming-to-self’.
- Yet, unlike what happens in the melodrama, the real subject of the diegesis is not the woman, but the male body, and women, fighting or not, often end up as pawns - yet their function within the diegesis keeps changing.
- This indirect placement of interpretative elements on the ‘fringes’ of the film's diegesis points towards a greater system of absence and presence that structures The Big Sleep.
- The interchangeability of sadistic and masochistic positions within the diegesis potentially undercuts the a priori masochism ascribed by current film theory to the female spectator of classical cinema.
- At that point, an empty space opens up in front of the window, which, as critics have pointed out, Huston uses as a visual symbol to frame moments in the diegesis when characters cannot be trusted.
- Shokrian includes a number of these bulletins at crucial points within the diegesis, although his characters remain virtually oblivious to them.
- In Mama Day, the nineteenth-century slave narrative and the sixteenth-century drama of displacement and colonization occupy the same temporal space, the time of narrative diegesis.
- In this process, they found that these slippery passages that constantly moved Orlando in and out of the diegesis fitted nicely with the film's focus on fluidity.
- In Hammett's novel, the Flitcraft episode disrupts the diegesis both literally, by inserting extraneous material into the ‘plot,’ and figuratively, by exposing the instability of all narratives.
- Time of the Wolf is wholly transparent in its operations - like The Piano Teacher, it only exists on one level of narrative diegesis, describing the aftermath of a global apocalypse.
- Establishing Hamlet and Branagh as a version of the Lacanian ‘subject presumed to know’ also serves a practical purpose in enabling Branagh to sustain an illusion of total control both within and beyond the diegesis of the film.
- The justification is in fact very clearly stated within the diegesis.
Synonyms
plot, outline, storyline, framework, structure, scheme, plan, layout

Derivatives

diegetic

adjectiveˌdʌɪəˈdʒɛtɪk

I honestly thought it was diegetic, and therefore it actually made the scene more unsettling for me.
Example sentencesExamples
- A common question in your basic film analysis class is going to revolve around diegetic and non-diegetic sound.
- He returns to fulfil his role as an agent of connection at the end of the film, restoring order to the diegetic world.
- This distinction between the film's narrative, or diegetic, aims and its music led Harries, in a thoughtful Chronicle of Higher Education analysis of the film, to consider the extent to which the film's music is diegetic.
- Similarly, multi-channel playback systems could render the diegetic space of a conversation by moving dialogue from speaker to speaker as characters moved across screen.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Greek diēgēsis 'narrative'.

Definition of diegesis in US English:

diegesis

nounˌdīəˈjēsis

A narrative or plot, typically in a movie.
（多指电影中的）叙述；情节
Example sentencesExamples
- It is true that the tropes and symbols that actualize the structure of the lyric, and the diegesis actualizing narrative structures, are all referential, rooted in mores, in ideologies-rooted in history.
- Non-narrative surfaces and textures that would in a single-channel movie seem like radical departures from the diegesis emerge and recede without halting the flow of the story.
- The diegesis of Memoirs of a Midget, if not exactly traditional in every respect, nevertheless belongs to genres with which we are familiar.
- Indeed, Rushdie's first novel Grimus is cast in the shape of Dantean katabasis, both in the diegesis of a descent journey and in the ethical framework of what Brennan refers to as Rushdie's ‘coming-to-self’.
- In Hammett's novel, the Flitcraft episode disrupts the diegesis both literally, by inserting extraneous material into the ‘plot,’ and figuratively, by exposing the instability of all narratives.
- These genres are not only the surface texture of the film but they are doubled and quoted directly via the insertion of film clips into the diegesis.
- Shokrian includes a number of these bulletins at crucial points within the diegesis, although his characters remain virtually oblivious to them.
- The justification is in fact very clearly stated within the diegesis.
- At that point, an empty space opens up in front of the window, which, as critics have pointed out, Huston uses as a visual symbol to frame moments in the diegesis when characters cannot be trusted.
- In Mama Day, the nineteenth-century slave narrative and the sixteenth-century drama of displacement and colonization occupy the same temporal space, the time of narrative diegesis.
- Establishing Hamlet and Branagh as a version of the Lacanian ‘subject presumed to know’ also serves a practical purpose in enabling Branagh to sustain an illusion of total control both within and beyond the diegesis of the film.
- Time of the Wolf is wholly transparent in its operations - like The Piano Teacher, it only exists on one level of narrative diegesis, describing the aftermath of a global apocalypse.
- For instance, Pop Music begins the historical investigation of how popular music and musicians tell stories with a study of filmic diegesis, or what Donnelly describes as ‘the story world.’
- Background music is not part of the diegesis of the film and has the potential to create confusion.
- Yet, unlike what happens in the melodrama, the real subject of the diegesis is not the woman, but the male body, and women, fighting or not, often end up as pawns - yet their function within the diegesis keeps changing.
- This indirect placement of interpretative elements on the ‘fringes’ of the film's diegesis points towards a greater system of absence and presence that structures The Big Sleep.
- Sometimes, enunciation pierces through narration with ostentatious camera moves or reflexive images, but it finds itself swallowed by the diegesis in the end.
- In this process, they found that these slippery passages that constantly moved Orlando in and out of the diegesis fitted nicely with the film's focus on fluidity.
- The interchangeability of sadistic and masochistic positions within the diegesis potentially undercuts the a priori masochism ascribed by current film theory to the female spectator of classical cinema.
- This is what Olivier demonstrated in Henry V, when the doors of the theatrical first act literally open themselves up to a boundless panorama, the diegesis of the whole earth and not the altar of the stage.
Synonyms
plot, outline, storyline, framework, structure, scheme, plan, layout

Origin

Early 19th century: from Greek diēgēsis ‘narrative’.

词汇	diegesis
释义	Definition of diegesis in English: diegesis nounPlural diegeses ˌdʌɪəˈdʒiːsɪsˌdīəˈjēsis A narrative or plot, typically in a film. （多指电影中的）叙述；情节 Example sentencesExamples Non-narrative surfaces and textures that would in a single-channel movie seem like radical departures from the diegesis emerge and recede without halting the flow of the story. The diegesis of Memoirs of a Midget, if not exactly traditional in every respect, nevertheless belongs to genres with which we are familiar. For instance, Pop Music begins the historical investigation of how popular music and musicians tell stories with a study of filmic diegesis, or what Donnelly describes as ‘the story world.’ These genres are not only the surface texture of the film but they are doubled and quoted directly via the insertion of film clips into the diegesis. This is what Olivier demonstrated in Henry V, when the doors of the theatrical first act literally open themselves up to a boundless panorama, the diegesis of the whole earth and not the altar of the stage. Background music is not part of the diegesis of the film and has the potential to create confusion. Sometimes, enunciation pierces through narration with ostentatious camera moves or reflexive images, but it finds itself swallowed by the diegesis in the end. It is true that the tropes and symbols that actualize the structure of the lyric, and the diegesis actualizing narrative structures, are all referential, rooted in mores, in ideologies-rooted in history. Indeed, Rushdie's first novel Grimus is cast in the shape of Dantean katabasis, both in the diegesis of a descent journey and in the ethical framework of what Brennan refers to as Rushdie's ‘coming-to-self’. Yet, unlike what happens in the melodrama, the real subject of the diegesis is not the woman, but the male body, and women, fighting or not, often end up as pawns - yet their function within the diegesis keeps changing. This indirect placement of interpretative elements on the ‘fringes’ of the film's diegesis points towards a greater system of absence and presence that structures The Big Sleep. The interchangeability of sadistic and masochistic positions within the diegesis potentially undercuts the a priori masochism ascribed by current film theory to the female spectator of classical cinema. At that point, an empty space opens up in front of the window, which, as critics have pointed out, Huston uses as a visual symbol to frame moments in the diegesis when characters cannot be trusted. Shokrian includes a number of these bulletins at crucial points within the diegesis, although his characters remain virtually oblivious to them. In Mama Day, the nineteenth-century slave narrative and the sixteenth-century drama of displacement and colonization occupy the same temporal space, the time of narrative diegesis. In this process, they found that these slippery passages that constantly moved Orlando in and out of the diegesis fitted nicely with the film's focus on fluidity. In Hammett's novel, the Flitcraft episode disrupts the diegesis both literally, by inserting extraneous material into the ‘plot,’ and figuratively, by exposing the instability of all narratives. Time of the Wolf is wholly transparent in its operations - like The Piano Teacher, it only exists on one level of narrative diegesis, describing the aftermath of a global apocalypse. Establishing Hamlet and Branagh as a version of the Lacanian ‘subject presumed to know’ also serves a practical purpose in enabling Branagh to sustain an illusion of total control both within and beyond the diegesis of the film. The justification is in fact very clearly stated within the diegesis. Synonyms plot, outline, storyline, framework, structure, scheme, plan, layout Derivatives diegetic adjectiveˌdʌɪəˈdʒɛtɪk I honestly thought it was diegetic, and therefore it actually made the scene more unsettling for me. Example sentencesExamples A common question in your basic film analysis class is going to revolve around diegetic and non-diegetic sound. He returns to fulfil his role as an agent of connection at the end of the film, restoring order to the diegetic world. This distinction between the film's narrative, or diegetic, aims and its music led Harries, in a thoughtful Chronicle of Higher Education analysis of the film, to consider the extent to which the film's music is diegetic. Similarly, multi-channel playback systems could render the diegetic space of a conversation by moving dialogue from speaker to speaker as characters moved across screen. Origin Early 19th century: from Greek diēgēsis 'narrative'. Definition of diegesis in US English: diegesis nounˌdīəˈjēsis A narrative or plot, typically in a movie. （多指电影中的）叙述；情节 Example sentencesExamples It is true that the tropes and symbols that actualize the structure of the lyric, and the diegesis actualizing narrative structures, are all referential, rooted in mores, in ideologies-rooted in history. Non-narrative surfaces and textures that would in a single-channel movie seem like radical departures from the diegesis emerge and recede without halting the flow of the story. The diegesis of Memoirs of a Midget, if not exactly traditional in every respect, nevertheless belongs to genres with which we are familiar. Indeed, Rushdie's first novel Grimus is cast in the shape of Dantean katabasis, both in the diegesis of a descent journey and in the ethical framework of what Brennan refers to as Rushdie's ‘coming-to-self’. In Hammett's novel, the Flitcraft episode disrupts the diegesis both literally, by inserting extraneous material into the ‘plot,’ and figuratively, by exposing the instability of all narratives. These genres are not only the surface texture of the film but they are doubled and quoted directly via the insertion of film clips into the diegesis. Shokrian includes a number of these bulletins at crucial points within the diegesis, although his characters remain virtually oblivious to them. The justification is in fact very clearly stated within the diegesis. At that point, an empty space opens up in front of the window, which, as critics have pointed out, Huston uses as a visual symbol to frame moments in the diegesis when characters cannot be trusted. In Mama Day, the nineteenth-century slave narrative and the sixteenth-century drama of displacement and colonization occupy the same temporal space, the time of narrative diegesis. Establishing Hamlet and Branagh as a version of the Lacanian ‘subject presumed to know’ also serves a practical purpose in enabling Branagh to sustain an illusion of total control both within and beyond the diegesis of the film. Time of the Wolf is wholly transparent in its operations - like The Piano Teacher, it only exists on one level of narrative diegesis, describing the aftermath of a global apocalypse. For instance, Pop Music begins the historical investigation of how popular music and musicians tell stories with a study of filmic diegesis, or what Donnelly describes as ‘the story world.’ Background music is not part of the diegesis of the film and has the potential to create confusion. Yet, unlike what happens in the melodrama, the real subject of the diegesis is not the woman, but the male body, and women, fighting or not, often end up as pawns - yet their function within the diegesis keeps changing. This indirect placement of interpretative elements on the ‘fringes’ of the film's diegesis points towards a greater system of absence and presence that structures The Big Sleep. Sometimes, enunciation pierces through narration with ostentatious camera moves or reflexive images, but it finds itself swallowed by the diegesis in the end. In this process, they found that these slippery passages that constantly moved Orlando in and out of the diegesis fitted nicely with the film's focus on fluidity. The interchangeability of sadistic and masochistic positions within the diegesis potentially undercuts the a priori masochism ascribed by current film theory to the female spectator of classical cinema. This is what Olivier demonstrated in Henry V, when the doors of the theatrical first act literally open themselves up to a boundless panorama, the diegesis of the whole earth and not the altar of the stage. Synonyms plot, outline, storyline, framework, structure, scheme, plan, layout Origin Early 19th century: from Greek diēgēsis ‘narrative’.
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