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Spectator

a British weekly journal of conservative orientation. Published in London since 1828, Spectator deals with political, economic, and cultural issues. Circulation, more than 30,000 (1975).

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The relationship here between the visual representation of a non-mimetic child and the spectatorial codification of its anti-theatricality seems particularly acute.
"The Limits of Spectatorial Folk Psychology." Mind and Language, vol.
You would, I thought, find yourself in a curious space: one where the bodily spectatorial subject coalesced into the filmmaker: the two further fused into the apparatus.
While Xu's film adaptation stays quite close to Zweig's original text, it employs spectatorial positioning and mise en scene to change the patriarchal power dynamics of the original narrative.
It follows that the spectatorial map enabled by multi-thread or network narratives is more expansive than in films with one or two central protagonists, due to the fact that the spectator follows multiple characters' trajectories and moves between multiple locales.
The critical passion and conceptual brio of these arguments might seem as anachronistic today as the spectatorial conditions they described.
employs a visual style that appeals to a targeted audience that finds it easier to identify with the characters because of their own familiarity with the fashion brands shown, as the film proactively exploits the halo effects of brand names to enhance spectatorial identification.
Oddly enough, for a chapter purportedly devoted to the pagan masque ritual of May Day, Coverdale, after mentioning that Zenobia and Priscilla have been out "a-maying together," instead devotes his attention to his real spectatorial interest: the two women and Hollingsworth (3:58).
This is the background to Diane Samuels' play, a play which disrupts our usual spectatorial passivity and can bring us to the edge of our seat with its dramatic strength.
Becoming-animated: Spectatorial metamorphoses in animation, video games, and new media (Doctoral dissertation).

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