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ascesis

Of course, it is possible to approach films by studying some other feature; by an effort of critical ascesis we could see films, as Sternberg sometimes urged, as abstract light-show or as histrionic feasts.

—p.86 The Auteur Theory (58) by Peter Wollen
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proscenium

The stage first broke through the proscenium arch, then outburst the brick-and-mortar integument of the theatre itself.

—p.25 Eisenstein’s Aesthetics (13) by Peter Wollen
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prurient

Dworkin hoped to elicit in ordinary prurient adults the kind of self-loathing our present culture hopes to elicit in pederasts.

—p.65 Pornutopia (63) by n+1
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concupiscence

Isadora Wing, ragingly concupiscent

—p.149 Library of the Ultravixens (142) by Elizabeth Young
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