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Losing the video as a communal experience is not a minor thing, though.
There's something to be said for television as a communal experience, which it becomes in the theater.
In an age of instant access and shrinking screens the insistence on cinema as a communal experience can only be called utopian.
It's no accident that Cinema Paradiso's nostalgic celebration of the power of great film-making, and of cinema as a communal experience, so captured audiences' imaginations.
You make these things that are meant to be seen on a huge screen, in big movie houses, as a communal experience, and the more people watch them on their iPads and iPhones, it's a little depressing.
The idea of cinema as a communal experience finds itself at a strange point when rep is making pleas for its own existence alongside the multiplex, which has been trying for the novelty factor by resurrecting 3D.
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Some of those interviewed at a recent performance embraced the thrills as part of a communal experience.
AR is a communal experience, not as much as an individual one, a la VR.
"Fans want a communal experience, almost as if they're at the event," says Bill Fairweather, owner of The Greatest Bar in Boston, an enormously popular sports-watching destination.
Beasty Baby plays to the fact that theatre is a communal experience, and it operates as a comedy of recognition – as if an unspoken secret is being disclosed.
As with the Apollo missions, listening to music often remains a communal experience.
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