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Three works in different genres that include at least one tale within the tale. How The Murder of Gonzago ("The Mousetrap"), the play within the play in Shakespeare's Hamlet, comments on the relationship between Gertrude and the late king. A projectionist who fantasizes of entering the movie he's showing in Buster Keaton's 1928 silent film comedy Sherlock Junior. The fictional newsreel of Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, which parodies 1930s journalism and contrasts how news and cinema tell stories. Exploring nonlinear time through a labyrinth of stories within the story "The Garden of Forking Paths" by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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