QUESTIONS OF NARRATION AND A LOOK AT MEMENTO
Symbols
Scopophila: A love of looking. A kid of drive to see things (movie goers are scopophiliacs). Related to voyeurism but without the sexual force
Specularize: To make a specific piece significant. Often used for the handling of a scene which is critical in the film. - a "set piece" or "requirement" for a genre - the appearance of the monster in monster films; scenery or gunfights in westerns, the miraculous event in fantasy etc.
Diegetic: The world of the film. That which is within the character's involvement. Usually used for music and sound. A radio playing in the film is diegetic, background music is not. Some people discuss "inserted elements" as non diegetic such as titles, sub titles, intertitles and even images which have no connection to the film such as the cowboy who shoot directly at the camera at the end of The Great Train Robbery. For example, an insert shot that depicts something that is neither taking place in the world of the film, nor is seen, imagined, or thought by a character, is a non-diegetic insert. Some people regard titles, subtitles, and voice-over narration (with some exceptions) as non-diegetic.
Gaze: In feminist film criticism, this term usually applies to the idea that the camera represents a predominantly male gaze which tends to objectify women. There is some question how to deal with the idea of "beefcake" as opposed to "cheese cake" in "specularizing" the male body rather than the fenale one.
Narration
Linear vs non Linear
Events in the real world occur in a linear manner - that is chronologuically) (story/event/fabula (a Russion term)) . When a story is told (discourse/narration/sjuzhet (a Russion term)), the linear organization may be broken in a number of ways:
The Narrator:
Where does the text and the images come from? There are three grammatical persons in English: first (the speaker), second person (the person addressed) and third person (the person discussed). Only the 1st and 3rd occur as narrators