To what extent do film viewers' eye movements and measured film comprehension support either Spielberg's belief that he has absolute control over viewers' gaze and comprehension of a film, or contemporary film theories' and Tarantino's assertion that each viewer sees and understands a different film?
Mr. Spielberg could have used some of the magisterial confidence of Alfred Hitchcock, who was always inordinately proud of "Psycho" -- the "Jaws" of 1960 -- precisely because it was the film in which he exercised the most absolute control over viewers' responses.
While discussing her career in a 2013 article, CNN-IBN noted, "[she]....is one of the few actresses in the current lot who has a strong screen presence which demands absolute attention from the viewer.
"It's one of the absolute core genres that viewers look to television for and it plays an incredibly important part in defining a channel to its audience, the commitment and the quality in our drama offering is really important in that respect.
One viewer wrote: "Big Brother, absolute tasteless tonight, using the death of Bowie for viewing figures and publicity".
The viewer gets an absolute sense that being part of this newspaper has generated a sense of pride in the inmate journalists, having granted them an authentic feeling of worth where perhaps little was left.
CNN and MSNBC, meanwhile, both have far more black viewers, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of their overall audiences.
Shakespeare's work is supposed to be every actor's dream material, but for Bachchan – and the viewer – it's an absolute nightmare.
Turrell's work invokes the historical concept of the sublime in a way that feels effortless, an absolute presence in the work which the viewer simply feels.
"What matters to the people who decide what programmes are shown on BBC1 and BBC2 is the absolute performance in terms of millions of viewers.
