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. |