The phrase "audience distance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about literature, film, or theater to describe the perceived emotional or physical space between the audience and the characters or events.
Example: "The director's choice to maintain a significant audience distance allowed viewers to reflect on the characters' struggles without becoming too emotionally involved."
Alternatives: "viewer detachment" or "spectator distance".
Such pusillanimity was perhaps bound to leave audiences distanced from cinema's grudge-driven slaughterers.
Their far-fetched extremity also gives the audience the distance needed to relish the bloodbaths.
While opera singers usually perform before an audience some distance away, here they were frequently filmed in close-up.
Ultimately though, Cyrus put on an unpredictable, garish pop show with an edge of decadence (and not just because she smokes weed onstage), underpinned by undeniable talent, perfectly designed for an audience some distance from her normal fans.
This works a few times, particularly when Hathaway tearfully sings one of the musical's signature songs, "I Dreamed A Dream", and you see the true potential of this recording technique as you experience great singing paired with first-rate, close-up acting, which you don't get in live musicals due to the audience's distance from the actors.
The audience are distanced from Tillie by time, while many will be distanced from Samira by a cultural gulf.
Dramatically, because with the underdeveloped Ciaro as the lead character, the audience is distanced one step from Hoffa himself.
"Gatz" was one of three productions I caught here last weekend (all presented by the American Repertory Theater) that are trying to redefine the relationship between plays and audiences, erasing distance and blurring genres.
Speaking at AIPAC before Obama, a Democratic congressman, Steny Hoyer, did his president few favours by playing to the audience and distancing himself from Obama by saying that Israel's borders had to be defensible.
When I flipped through my notebook with a flashlight, I gradually came to realize that I had something particular — and for American audiences so distanced from revolutionary Iran — something useful to say.
