Sentences with phrase «in audience manipulation»

Rowan Joffé's drizzly, workmanlike thriller Before I Go To Sleep turns a ludicrous premise into a fitfully suspenseful, consistently interesting exercise in audience manipulation.

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Like stage magicians, such economists distract their audience's attention from the topic at hand in this case, the tendency for privatizations to turn control over to financial managers and foreign owners to somewhere that they can distract the audience's attention from the «invisible hand» of corruption and political manipulation.

Fearing a drift into oppressive «technocracy,» Houston pleaded with his audience to «far more seriously turn our minds, our scholarship, our practical concerns, to know how future man can be defended against the impersonal forces, the manipulations and other pressures of the complexities of life in these closing decades of the twentieth century.»

As C. W. Anderson observes, content farms are engaged in the attraction and manipulation of a «quantified audience,» a strategy that marks a nebulous border space between more reputable and legitimate media production and spam as such.

Transsiberian is a model of audience manipulation, a slow - fuse thriller that builds its suspense gradually, in increments, until it has becomes close to unbearable.

There is no mystery here - the audience is cleanly and surgically manipulated (completely in the opposite way as in Life of Pi - where the emotional manipulation was in fact necessary to achieve the point of the film), and the purpose was merely to show the viewer how easy this is.

As one of the most influential, popular, successful and important filmmakers of the past 40 years, Steven Spielberg has specialised in having audiences willingly submit to his masterful emotional manipulation.

Finally allowed to convey the humour and caring so evident in the books sorely missing from Gambon's previous performances, the audience understands Harry's devotion to the old wizard, despite some very questionable manipulation by the old man.

But, more than either of those things, it ends up being a stupid exercise in illogical audience manipulation.

Dolarhyde's «art» (the manipulation of mute audiences and the ritualistic murder of women), then, is Harris's extended literary trope shifted to image; look to further references of the infernal method in Lecktor's messages to the madman and in Graham's evolving grasp of Dolarhyde's «dream» of transformation.

The ostensible plot has Shanté suspecting her boyfriend Keith Fenton (Morris Chestnut) of cheating, and the remainder of the film has her outlining to the audience her allegedly foolproof ten - day plan, which entails lying and all sorts of psychological manipulation, to get any man in gear.

Kojima adores playing with audience expectations, doesn't mind upsetting his fanbase to do so, and has a history of examining behavioural control and media manipulation in the internet age (just play MGS 2 again).

By means of conceptualization, appropriation, image and sound manipulation, visceral / violent performance and audience control, he exposes visible and invisible power dynamics embedded in our society.

The manipulation of the idea of archetype and nature in the objects he cre - ates, poses for the audience something that surpasses normalcy, and therefore alters the expected attitude of indiffer - ence.

This is evident in the bold project Raising at Jupiter Artland, which saw the gallery audience partake in designing and building a modular house, and in subtler work such as Hand Helds, a delicate perforated line that hints at physical flexibility and manipulation.