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How James Joyce invented Cinema

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Cinematic Story Telling Is Like Free Indirect Speech

With free indirect speech you get to write in the third person with the voice of your central character and that's what I love about the dead by James Joyce. The language of the camera lens to tell a story is quite similar to free indirect speech except you're not using words or images when you watch a piece of TV or a film the camera isn't situated in the eyeballs of your character sometimes it is like peep show which is entirely first-person perspective but they had a lot of fun with it. Writer Jesse Armstrong who spent nine fucking years writing peep show in the first person he now writes succession which is in the third persons. It's this fact here that has me

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