ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

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Dave Monroe:
This is why I asked about that harmonica band episode.
What IS diegetically "real" here? 

"Gweetings, gentleman, on this Glowious Twelfth!" AtD 757

". . .OK, and the Acker Bilk album," Takeshi had been 
deciding, "and, let's see, The Chipmunks Sing Marvin 
Hamlisch?" Vineland, 165


Diegesis is multi-levelled in narrative fiction. Genette distinguishes 
between three "diegetic levels." The extradiegetic level (the level of 
the narrative's telling) is, according to Prince, "external to (not part of) 
any diegesis." One might think of this as what we commonly understand 
to be the narrator's level, the level at which exists a narrator who is not 
part of the story he tells. The diegetic level is understood as the level of 
the characters, their thoughts and actions. The metadiegetic level or 
hypodiegetic level is that part of a diegesis that is embedded in another one 
and is often understood as a story within a story, as when a diegetic narrator 
himself/herself tells a story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diegesis

Aural Realism

Paul Wells, as already mentioned, describes hyper-realistic sound in animation 
as sound that “will demonstrate diegetic appropriateness and correspond directly 
to the context from which it emerges.”[1] Generally, classical models of 
live-action cinema follow a slightly less strict model, where sounds are 
generally diegetically appropriate, but certain types of non-diegetic sounds 
(such as a musical score, or voice-over narration) are accepted by convention. 
Much of the Disney studio’s animation follows a superficially similar model, 
especially if thefilms are compared with live-action musicals, where generic 
conventions allow a looser approach to the “appropriateness” of sound. However, 
the nature of the animated film complicates the relationship between sound and 
image, and leads to some subtle but important differences in notions of what is 
accepted as realistic.

http://www.cinephobia.com/realism3.html