<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper discusses pertinent aspects of the screen as a device of framing and re-ordering. Television and video screens introduced in filmic diegesis are attributed three main functions (spatial, temporal, and topical re-ordering) and are related to the relationships Gerard Genette establishes between first-order narrative and metadiegetic levels (1987), as well as to Lars Elleström’s extracommunicational and intracommunicational actual and virtual spheres (2018). The visibility through noise of the televisual and of the video media is theorized based on Sybille Krämer’s media theory (2015) and three pre-digital arthouse films: <italic>Videodrome</italic> (David Cronenberg, 1984), <italic>Irma Vep</italic> (Olivier Assayas, 1996), and <italic>Lost Highway</italic> (David Lynch, 1997).<sup>1</sup></p></abstract>

The paper discusses pertinent aspects of the screen as a device of framing and re-ordering. Television and video screens introduced in filmic diegesis are attributed three main functions (spatial, temporal, and topical re-ordering) and are related to the relationships Gerard Genette establishes between first-order narrative and metadiegetic levels (1987), as well as to Lars Elleström’s extracommunicational and intracommunicational actual and virtual spheres (2018). The visibility through noise of the televisual and of the video media is theorized based on Sybille Krämer’s media theory (2015) and three pre-digital arthouse films: Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1984), Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996), and Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997).1

Television and Video Screens in Filmic Narratives: Medium Specificity, Noise and Frame-Work

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies

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The paper discusses pertinent aspects of the screen as a device of framing and re-ordering. Television and video screens introduced in filmic diegesis are...

Television and Video Screens in Filmic Narratives: Medium Specificity, Noise and Frame-Work

Published Online: Oct 30, 2019

Page range: 81 - 96

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2019-0016

Keywords
cinematic screen, electronic screen, diegesis, noise, narrative levels

© 2019 Andrea Virginás, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Television and Video Screens in Filmic Narratives: Medium Specificity, Noise and Frame-Work

Published Online: Oct 30, 2019

Page range: 81 - 96

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2019-0016

Keywordscinematic screen, electronic screen, diegesis, noise, narrative levels

© 2019 Andrea Virginás, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
cinematic screen, electronic screen, diegesis, noise, narrative levels