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A Kubrick stare involves an actor looking out from under the brow line and tilting their head towards the camera. [3] Sometimes, the actor will smile in a sinister fashion. [7] It is often used to convey that a character has become dangerously mentally unstable. Thus, the stare has been described as looking creepy. [2]
The thousand-yard stare (also referred to as two-thousand-yard stare) is the blank, unfocused gaze of people experiencing dissociation due to acute stress or traumatic events. It was originally used about war combatants and the post-traumatic stress they exhibited but is now also used to refer to an unfocused gaze observed in people under a ...
Trāṭaka (Sanskrit: त्राटक "look, gaze") is a yogic purification (a shatkarma) and a tantric method of meditation that involves staring at a single point such as a small object, black dot or candle flame.
Jean-Paul Sartre described the gaze (or the look) in Being and Nothingness (1943). [1] Michel Foucault , in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975), developed the concept of the gaze to illustrate the dynamics of socio-political power relations and the social dynamics of society's mechanisms of discipline.
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Staring contests ('Stare-out') were featured as an animation in the first series of surreal BBC television comedy sketch show Big Train (aired in 1998). The animation satirised televised sporting events coverage and its over-excited commentary, inspired by events such as the World Chess Championship, cricket, boxing and the football World Cup.
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