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What does spectatorial mean?

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Adjective
  1. Pertaining to a spectator.
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In all likelihood, though, the films of the Indian dancers elicited a far more complex spectatorial response than that suggested in these two contemporary accounts.
We must question, however, the actual usefulness of such a characterization of spectatorial submission to the visual image of film.
By mirroring the very gaze that the neighboring advertisement solicits, then, it foregrounds the spectatorial act as a subject for psychological and cultural analysis.
He takes a protective but also frankly spectatorial interest in the lives of his tenants, following their dramas with the fascination of a soap opera addict.
The dancers no longer performed for the spectatorial look but rather, engaged with the crowd in immediate exchange.
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.

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