One, "Gathering for a Demonstration" (1928), looks down on a group of marchers in a side street from the upper floor balcony of a nearby building, the elevated vantage point emphasizing the viewer's detachment from the scene below.
Yes, there is power in video and image, yet there is also the danger that the image may overtake emotion and thus produce a feeling in the viewer of eventual detachment.
With its lowly status as domestic furniture, and with the ironic detachment fostered by viewer control, television could become a best friend, an intimate, but never an arch-seducer.
There is no anesthetization of the medium involved because the detachment of the apathetic viewer and the empathy of the compassionate viewer are both a priori to the art.
If you get an invitation to a wedding in Westeros, politely decline!) A regular viewer finds herself adopting a troll's detachment, in it for the lulz.
Heffernan's work is an unexpected prism through which to view the "soldier's story". She wants viewers to slough off the layers of detachment that come from a steady barrage of war news and ultimately to confront discomfort.
Indeed, viewers tend to ascribe to Ms. Jones the chilly detachment, questionable judgment and unsteady nerves that haunt and define Betty Francis.
It's almost as if he is playing peekaboo with his adult audience, turning jaded viewers into temporary innocents, and doing so with the kindly detachment of an especially amusing uncle.
Yet abstraction assumes a distance, a detachment from the subject, while Brandl seems to take viewers closer to it.
For a viewer, that characteristic — clawing at present-day sensitivities — may well interfere with aesthetic detachment, as the show unfolds.
The flipness, the isolation, the casual detachment and blank simplicity with which White sermonizes to his viewers suggests the utter absence of observation and of introspection that went into the movie.
