From the outset, subjective camera techniques inscribe the viewer as complicitious company with a shared horizon of understanding so that eventually the audience has become so complicitous that words are superfluous - Orlando's knowing gaze in the audience's direction suffices to punctuate key moments of the diegesis with shared irony. ... Potter claimed that these alterations were necessary "to strengthen some of the narrative muscle for cinematic purposes- to supply little bits of motivation for the story's premise, to make it psychologically convincing on film." ... Compl...

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The film Clueless deals primarily with the protagonist's (Cher's) thoughts through the filmic technique of voice over and with her experiences through dialogue. ... Vast passages of descriptive language detailing the thoughts and emotions of each character are not necessary in Clueless, as filmic and acting techniques allow these features to be conveyed through as little as a single camera shot, music or facial expression of an actor. ... Clueless uses filmic technique to compress these large paragraphs into merely seconds of footage of a set or an actor. ... Through camera techniq...

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In the novel The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender written by Marele Day, distinctive voices are created through the creation of voices depicted through various literary techniques. ... Marele Day has used a range of literary techniques including first person narration and phrases to successfully create an interchange of unique characters. ... Day's narrative includes social commentary about Sydney and its society. ... Gillard uses techniques such as rhetorical questions to display the power and authoritative voice she has over the opposition, this is shown in the quote "now who...

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He used this technique to dramatize the complexity of life and the difficulty of arriving at truth. " Reality and life weave together in one of Faulkner's many novels, As I Lay Dying. "William Faulkner's outrageous story of the Bundren family is undoubtedly one of his most complex and enigmatic novels; complex because beneath the surface narrative of a grotesque journey, we are terrifying depths of human significance; enigmatic, because we never seem to be certain in what sense the novels control our responses," states Jan Bakker. ... Faulkner's technique enables us to watch...

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In magical realism you find the transformation of the common, into the awesome and the unreal as a part of everyday reality. According to Literature and Its Time, the term was first used by the German art critic Franz Roh in 1925, it described a manner of painting that "was not a mixture of reality and fantasy but a way to uncover the mystery hidden in ordinary objects". In Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel uses magical realism to combine reality and surreality onto the same plane making it seem as if the unreal happens as a part of everyday life. Laura Esquivel was born in 1951 in...

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Forster's techniques in this novel allow the reader to stay fully engaged and ask many questions before reaching the end of the novel. The narrative technique of psychonarration helps the reader understand how Mr. ...

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The author uses light as a technique to show the effect each of the main female characters have on their environment. ... Whereas the other characters in the narrative remain rather opaque, we are allowed access to all of Ethan Frome's thoughts as his life approaches a crisis point. ...

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