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refer to themselves openly as such. Such moments, which draw attention to the lack of separation between character and audience or that remind the audience that the fourth wall does not really exist, are a form of metatheatre or metafiction. A similar metareference occurs when actors in television or film make silent eye contact with the camera, momentarily suspending the usual convention of ignoring the camera. Such techniques are

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