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	Fourth wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fourth wall is the imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play.
		The sudden breaking of the fourth wall is often employed for humorous effect, as a sort of visual non-sequitur, as the unexpected breaking from normal conventions of narrative fiction surprises the audience and creates humour.
		The fourth wall is sometimes included as part of the narrative, when a character discovers that they are part of a fiction and 'breaks the fourth wall' to make contact with their audience, as seen in films such as the Last Action Hero.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fourth_wall (724 words)

	Fourth wall Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com
		The fourth wall is the imaginary invisible plane at the front of the stage in a theater through which the viewer is thought to look.
		In order for the fourth wall to remain intact, the actors must also, in effect, pretend that the audience does not exist, by staying in character at all times and by not addressing the audience members directly.
		The literary technique called breaking the fourth wall is used when the plot of a story calls for some event to take place that shatters the barrier between the fictional world of the story, and the "real world" of the audience watching the story.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/fourth_wall.html (707 words)

	Fourth wall - Comixpedia
		The term fourth wall applies to the imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play.
		The presence of a fourth wall is one of the most well established conventions of fiction and as such has led some artists to draw direct attention to it for dramatic effect.
		The sudden breaking of the fourth wall is often employed for humourous effect, as a sort of visual non-sequitur, as the unexpected breaking from normal conventions of narrative fiction surprises the audience and creates humour.
	www.comixpedia.org /index.php/Fourth_wall (819 words)

	List of fiction that breaks the fourth wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It does not include situations in which the fourth wall is broken inadvertently, such as when a mirror or other reflective surface catches a film crew and the editors fail to notice it.
		1/0 examines the concept of the fourth wall extensively and in a variety of ways, ranging from the nature of the influence of the author over the comic world to the use of the presence or absence of the fourth wall (and thus the acknowledgement of an omnipotent "author") as a metaphor for religion.
		Whether this truly qualifies as breaking the fourth wall is debatable, as his addresses to the audience are isolated monologues akin to a narration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fiction_that_breaks_the_fourth_wall (13666 words)

	Pipilotti Rist - Fourth Wall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fourth Wall appears against the sky as an image, yet without a frame it incorporates an uncertainty about the division between reality and fantasy, between the space in front of the wall and behind.
		In this way, the space of Fourth Wall, as Rist conceives of it, is an interworld - a critical space that reflects on its relationship to the space outside the screen.
		Fourth Wall is rarely viewed in its entirety but glimpsed through chinks between buildings.
	www.padt.org.uk /4thwall/rist/ristes.html (881 words)

	Talk:Fourth Wall Breaks - Homestar Runner Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For Homestar Runner dot com, breaking the fourth wall is the rule rather than the exception.
		I'm the one who STUFF'd this, and it was mentioned in Fourth Wall Breaks, not The King of Town DVD.
		Yeah, I know what breaking the fourth wall is. I'm saying that if Strong Bad believes he has a (fictional) webcam following him around or some such thing then he's not breaking the fourth wall when he talks to the audience any more than Homestar does when he says "seriously folks they're the best".
	www.hrwiki.org /index.php/Talk:Fourth_Wall_Breaks (2069 words)

	Re: broke the fourth wall
		In Reply to: Re: broke the fourth wall posted by ESC on December 29, 2004 at 14:28:09:
		and when Viggo broke the "fourth wall" and spoke directly to the viewers and said "Namarie" with that goshdarned perfect pronunciation of his...
		Re: broke the fourth wall melissa 29/December/04 (0)
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/38/messages/1468.html (183 words)

	:p:u:z:z:l:e:b:o:x: wiki: Fourth Wall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Breaking the fourth wall refers to stagecraft, where the actors are surrounded by four walls: three real, stage left, stage right and the backdrop, and a fourth imaginary, the one facing the audience.
		Wall, Fly On The--Character overhears player's conversations, and does that sort of thing where they are listening to something but don't want that person to know they're listening.
		Wall Flower--Player stands at the edge of the room, kinda bobbing their head shyly to the music, while character dances with all the other characters at the club.
	www.puzzleboxmuck.org /wiki/index.cgi?Fourth_Wall (797 words)

	Brighton Boiler Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The fourth wall is the space separating the audience from the action of a theatrical performance; traditionally conceived of as an imaginary wall completing the enclosure of a stage.
		It's time to "kick down the fourth wall" of our own life's stage and interact with the world in the ways that God leads us.
		The Fourth Wall is a 10 month community based Youth With A Mission (YWAM) discipleship training school (DTS) set in the heart of Brighton, England in a 24-7 Boiler Room (house of prayer).
	www.brightonboilerroom.com /fourthwall.cfm (221 words)

	Daily Wisdom 01-27-2001 The Fourth Wall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The front wall is the side you show the world; it's where you put your best foot forward, the carefully crafted public image we all hide behind.
		The second wall of your life is the "private" side, the person that your family and close friends and co-workers see.
		Christ can make the fourth wall of your life more perfect than any of the other three, simply because the other three sides are YOUR creation, and the fourth side can be HIS.
	dailywisdom.gospelcom.net /archives/2001/01/27 (739 words)

	Close the door on 'The Fourth Wall' North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County News - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In theater terms, the fourth wall is the invisible wall the actors play to, where the audience is. To break the fourth wall is to acknowledge the audience, thereby conceding everything they're doing onstage is just so much make-believe.
		Peggy grows convinced there are people behind that wall and a life she has yet to experience, one apart from the Bushes and Rumsfelds, et al., and their war.
		She comes to believe that if real life is beyond the wall, she and others on this side of it must simply be performing a lifelong play as characters in an unfolding plot.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2004/06/01/entertainment/theater/5_26_0413_09_04.txt (843 words)

	Boulder Weekly \| Buzz \| CenterStage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Peggy has also rearranged all the furniture in the room to face the blank wall thus emphasizing its blankness even further and making it "the fourth wall." (As most of you probably know, the fourth wall is the imaginary wall between actor and audience in a play or movie.
		Her creation of the fourth wall is a reaction to that stress–a reaction not fully explained until the end of the play.
		In the director’s notes, she claims that The Fourth Wall is "not about political parties or about bashing our current president." This is patently false.
	www.boulderweekly.com /archive/101404/centerstage.html (977 words)

	Fourth Wall Breaks - Homestar Runner Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sometimes, the characters "break the fourth wall" by displaying awareness that they are in an Internet cartoon.
		Fourth wall breakages are common in Strong Bad Emails; Strong Bad often addresses the viewers, and references to his "email show" are made.
		If they were to refer to being in a cartoon or to refer to being cartoon characters, that would be breaking the fourth wall.
	www.hrwiki.org /index.php/Fourth_Wall_Breaks (1352 words)

	Welcome to the Fourth Wall!
		If you're not familiar with the Fourth Wall, let me summarize: The Fourth Wall is a group of gamers brought together by a common love of gaming, friendship, and of course, ale.
		Fourth Wall claims no specific game afilliation, although we do have in-game constructs, our two largest being Everquest and Dark Ages of Camelot.
		Membership in the Fourth Wall means to be either tagged in game with the name Wall>, to have been tagged at one time and to have left the guild in good standing, or to simply be affiliated with the body of people that call themselves Fourth Wall.
	www.4th-wall.net /news.html (525 words)

	Creative Loafing Atlanta \| ARTS \| BREAK ON THROUGH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the Alliance Theatre's The Fourth Wall, however, a privileged suburban housewife named Peggy (Courtenay Collins) shows her opposition to George W. Bush by rearranging her living room decor.
		The Fourth Wall truly comes alive when Floyd suggests that Peggy may be an inspirational figure on par with Joan of Arc.
		The Fourth Wall best connects with the audience by suggesting that, like Peggy, we have the choice of emerging as heroes in a timeless, deeply themed drama, or settling for being stock players in a forgettable, frivolous laugh fest.
	atlanta.creativeloafing.com /2004-11-10/arts_theater.html (685 words)

	Inside Jokes and the Fourth Wall - TWoP Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Breaking the fourth wall was a technique they used frequently, whether by referencing the fact that they were only a tv show, using in-jokes that referred to Cybill Shepherd's previous career/life, or directly addressing the audience.
		Certain breaches in the fourth wall on that show seem to have been developed as filler for when episodes were running short.
		Many episodes started with the fourth wall breach, as when Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis explained that the episode about to air was filmed in 3-D but the special glasses weren't sent out in time.
	forums.televisionwithoutpity.com /index.php?s=9e98316924ac9933718ac91aa65ac67d&showtopic=3118799 (1392 words)

	The Flying Lizards - Fouth Wall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The album's almost-smooth consistency is betrayed by bits and chunks here and there that catch you by surprise; fragments of one idea present themselves briefly, then perhaps turn up inside-out-and-upside-down in another unexpected location.
		Some police sirens and bits of news broadcasts are thrown in, as well as that sample at the end of "Move On Up" of that guy making a pterodactyl call.
		note: apparently the Toshiba-EMI Japan CD releases of the first LP and "Fourth Wall" were put together without David Cunningham's knowledge, were not approved sonically by him and supposedly the sleeve notes and photos are inaccurate.
	home.netcom.com /~logan5/fldiscfourthwall.html (1502 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Actors generally never break this fourth wall and maintain a presumed barrier between the two worlds.
		Peggy's goal is to break through this wall, go to Washington and insist that "George W. Bush be the president he should be." Peggy could just as easily get to Washington (or Crawford, Texas) through the front door, but this fourth wall is an internal metaphor she must topple first.
		Where "The Fourth Wall" succeeds more is as human theater held together by Edith Weiss, who is just a living, glowing ball of goodness.
	www.denverpost.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2991036 (966 words)

	Cracks in the Fourth Wall Filmworks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"The Fourth Wall" is a theoretical theatrical term referring to the stage as having three visible walls and an invisible fourth wall.
		This fourth wall is the screen through which we view the action, be it the screen in a cinema or the lack thereof (usually) when viewing a play.
		The concept of "breaking the fourth wall" is a technique in which the characters interact with the audience.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /scottandrewh/welcome.html (590 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| 'The Fourth Wall'
		A.R. Gurney makes that wall a topic of discussion (and obsession) among the characters in his play The Fourth Wall, and Theatreworks is currently giving Gurney's latest update of the play, now taking some satirical shots at the Bush administration, its West Coast premiere.
		Although the audience has already accepted this setup on convention, the characters continue to analyze the wall, along with Roger's wife, Peggy (Kimberly King), as if it were a dysfunctional entity.
		But after 85 minutes of talk about breaking though the wall and connecting with the people on the other side, one would expect a very intimate finale.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.11.03/4th-wall-0350.html (616 words)

	COMICON.com: GOING CHEEP # 38 Breaking the Fifth Wall
		This is obviously explicit in nature, and inevitably, more of a monologue since not even the most enthusiastic comic book reader believes that he or she can talk to the characters and have them understand them.
		Other examples of breaking the fourth wall are, as I have said, almost exclusively for humorous effect.
		Well, if the fourth wall is the transition of mindset of a comic book character to the 'real world' we inhabit, by realising that they're in a comic book, then I'd argue that the fifth wall is the exact opposite, where real people are inserted into the comic book world.
	www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=003760 (2821 words)

	The_Directors_Chair's Blog: Breaking the fourth wall... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We may have three walls of a room up, but in order for us to see the action of the play, the fourth wall is implied.
		To break said wall means to directly address the audience, and to break the assumed illusion being portrayed on stage.
		The moral, kiddies, is that you have to be able to break that fourth wall, break those insecurities that hold you back, because for all you know, there could be a completely different person in you, waiting to come out.
	www.superpatriot.net /blog/The_Directors_Chair?archive=239 (315 words)

	The Social Customer Manifesto: The Fourth Wall
		The Fourth Wall had been not broken, but obliterated.
		This seemed to allow more incendiary ranting than would have taken place in a face-to-face situation, or even in a situation where someone needed to stand by their words in perpetuity (say in the case of a blog by a named author).
		Although some of the comments were perhaps inappropriate, the words on the wall added an element of reality to the conference, a check-and-balance that wasn't afraid to call B.S. when the folks on stage were perceived to be acting below-board.
	www.socialcustomer.com /2005/07/the_fourth_wall.html (1528 words)

	Presence in Front of the Fourth Wall of Cyberspace
		In theatre terminology, the separation between the stage and auditorium is called the "fourth wall." This is an invisible wall that divides the stage and the audience into distinct parts, found, for ex-ample, in the architecture of proscenium stages.
		The advantage of this wall is that both the actor and the spectator know exactly what their assigned places and roles are; they either watch or act.
		Particularly in the nat-uralistic theatre at the beginning of the 20th century, this separation of spectator and the object of observation behind the invisible fourth wall was thought to be essential.
	www.hayseed.net /MOO/roleaud.htm (6175 words)

	The Fourth Wall: Representation vs. Presentation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		" From this, the very first line in his Pulitzer Prize winning play Wilder has clearly torn down the invisible "fourth wall" between the audience and the actors on the stage, acknowledging the audience's presence and directly addressing them.
		Each audience member brings with them to the theater a willingness to suspend their disbelief, thereby constructing their own fourth wall by denying that they are in a theater filled with people, watching performers on a stage who are acting out a story.
		Presentational theater on the other hand admits the obvious and demolishes the fourth wall, thus freeing one (as in a narrator) or all of the characters to acknowledge the presence of the audience, often making contact with them, speaking to them, or even making entrances and exits through them.
	chdramaworkshop.homestead.com /4thWall.html (187 words)

	Fourth Wall Murals - About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At Fourth Wall Murals, the first step in the development of a mural is for us to learn your story.
		Murals may be painted directly onto your walls, or painted on canvas at our studio for later installation.
		For more information about Fourth Wall Murals, how the process works from concept to completion, and to start telling us your story, please contact us via e-mail at contactus@fourthwallmurals.com.
	www.fourthwallmurals.com /about (322 words)

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