Word: goer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most insidious element in the denaturalization of the American films stems from the nature of the market. Studies have shown, Bluestone points out, that the habitual movie-goer (particularly female) depends on the weekly movie for an escape from the tedium of daily life. And of course, everything must turn out for the best and true love triumph in the end. Hence, too, the "star" system in which the viewer identifies himself with a particular actor and the actor with a particular role. The popular film is thus required to create and sell folk myths which are satisfying and reassuring...
...women in the cast suffer from rigor mortis; their movements and voices are lifeless, and they read their lines. The play does, however, achieve a consistent dullness, which lets the drowsy theatre-goer sleep without fear of missing a thing...
...though, it should be mentioned, with mixed success), and theoretical, as a professor. He brings all his knowledge to bear in his reviews, which, as is appropriate to a voice of conscience, are often most annoying--to the people whom they criticize as well as to the occasional theatre-goer and reader of reviews...
...been set up without objection from religious leaders. With insuperable piety, Cinemogul DeMille claims that he has tried "to translate the Bible back to its original form." the form in which it was lived. Yet what he has really done is to throw sex and sand into the movie goer's eyes for almost twice as long as anybody else has ever dared to. He throws it very cleverly indeed. The dancing girls are numerous, nubile and explicitly photographed. Yul Brynner. as the Pharaoh, swaggering barelegged across the screen, will delight his millions of feminine admirers. Even Moses...
Experience seemed to have softened him a little. He said he hoped for a time when the American theatre goer would follow a playwright's effort because he was a friend, like someone you take into your home because you are interested in him as a person--no matter what mood he's in or what he has to say. Anderson noted British audiences come closer to his idea. They tend to enjoy plays more for their own sake, he said, and not so much for their cocktail party value. Often the British will even go back...