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  2. Audience design - Wikipedia

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    Audience design is a sociolinguistic model formulated by Herb Clark in 1982 and Gregory Murphy [1] and later elaborated by Allan Bell in 1984 [2] which proposes that linguistic style-shifting occurs primarily in response to a speaker's audience. According to this model, speakers adjust their speech primarily towards that of their audience in ...

  3. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    This character archetype of the 1930s → 1950s of a tough-talking, self-possessed, and independent woman — a good film role with much screen-time and character development who sparked against and vied with the male lead role, often Gary Cooper or Cary Grant — and was popularized in the film noir thrillers and screwball comedy films of ...

  4. Stock character - Wikipedia

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    A stock character, also known as a character archetype, is a type of character in a narrative (e.g. a novel, play, television show, or film) whom audiences recognize across many narratives or as part of a storytelling tradition or convention. There is a wide range of stock characters, covering people of various ages, social classes and demeanors.

  5. Presentational and representational acting - Wikipedia

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    With representational acting, the audience is studiously ignored and treated as voyeurs. In the sense of actor-character relationship, the type of theatre that uses 'presentational acting' in the actor-audience relationship, is often associated with a performer using 'representational acting' in their actor-character methodology. Conversely ...

  6. Glossary of motion picture terms - Wikipedia

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    A term referring to a fictional character (by whatever name) whose job it is to explain the plot or parts of a plot to other characters and the audience. mood lighting The deliberate use of certain lighting characteristics in a scene or even an entire film in order to provoke a particular state of mind or feeling in the viewer.

  7. Character (arts) - Wikipedia

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    In fiction, a character is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, radio or television series, music, film, or video game). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The character may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person, in which case the distinction of a "fictional" versus "real" character may be made. [ 2 ]

  8. Audience superior position - Wikipedia

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    Audience superior position is a term in literary theory to describe when the audience of a narrative work knows more than one or more characters in the narrative work. [1] An example in film might be when the audience knows the killer is hiding in the closet while the protagonist does not.

  9. Category:Film characters - Wikipedia

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    Film characters by year of introduction (110 C) Film characters by genre (9 C) Film characters by studio (7 C)-Lists of film characters (4 C, 53 P)