Definitions

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  • verb debase through carnal gratification

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Examples

  • It seems like the director wants to drag it on to make the viewer uncomfortable, to confront the voyeuristic tendencies of the genre, but someone somewhere stopped this plan by cutting it shorter and throwing in some shots that attempt to sensualise the experience – which is not just a change of directorial intention, but an introduction of the exact voyeurism that it wanted to confront.

    Mike says it’s worth entering THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT | Obsessed With Film 2009

  • It was my task to de-sensualise and de-materialise myself; then the spirits took on shape and form.”

    Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

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