narratage
(ˈnærətɪdʒ)
[f. narrate v. + -age.]
A technique used in films, plays, and on television in which one of the characters has the role of storyteller.
| 1948 E. Lindgren Art of Film vi. 112 Other films..employ a method known as narratage, in which one of the characters, usually a minor character in the film, is depicted as telling the story. 1954 Encounter Aug. 55/1 Here, still surviving in an age of redundant dialogue and, worse still, explanatory narratage, are stories really told in pictures. |