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the principal character in a play, story, etc.

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Another important detail is the protagonism of the feminine, due both to the director's perspective (with a strong interaction with and sympathy for a thorough reformulation of masculinity/femininity), and to Penelope Gilliatt's script, which allowed for the characterization of Alex, including sex scenes between her and Bob, too erotic for the mainstream cinema of the time.

"How I became what I am": an aesthetics of twist cinema in films from the 1960s and 1970s

In the context of such a friendship as Andrew's and mine, it does not matter who begins, who assumes the protagonism, who provides the key to or the crux of the argument.

Collective writing: an inquiry into praxis

In spite of its moments of protagonism, particularly those related to

Excess and economy in sons and lovers

Strengthening of a traditional territorial tenure system through protagonism in monitoring activities by lobster fishermen from the Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile.

Telecoupling between catch, farming, and international trade for the gastropods Concholepas concholepas (loco) and Haliotis spp. (abalone)

Independently of the style employed to integrate the research subjects into the account, it is important to consider the possibility of other products, with other forms of protagonism.

Participatory research methodologies and popular education: reflections on quality criteria

Because this strategy also diluted the chances for protagonism, it became both an aesthetic and a political resource to rehearse polysemie, cluttered, and motley politics.

Redrawing power: #YoSoy132 and overflowing insurgencies

Diniz (2009) and Jovarauskiene and Pilinkiene (2009) also recognize a certain protagonism of governments by proposing that they have important roles to pay, mainly in regulating the activities of companies and citizens in the area of electronic commerce, and also as agents themselves able to incorporate technological resources to offer information and services to citizens.

Factors that influence the adoption and implementation of public digital accounting according to the evaluation by managers of Brazilian companies/Fatores que impactam na adocao e implementacao do sped na a valiacao dos gestores das empresas Brasileiras

The tourism resources have high protagonism in the four models, constituting high competitiveness factors, although Hong's model shows them as competitive advantages.

Tourism competitiveness in the European Union: a quantitave objective model study

This expansion can be justified by the political situation experienced during the period, in which there was an obvious protagonism of workers in the attempt to change Brazilian society [23] and due to the instability caused by the rise in inflation and the subsequent increase in the cost of living.

Normative power and the consolidation of Brazilian labor courts: the history of jurisprudence about collective labor law/O poder normativo e a consolidacao da justica do trabalho brasileira: a historia da jurisprudencia sobre o direito coletivo do trabalho/La competence normatif et la consolidation de la justice du travail bresilienne: l'histoire de la jurisprudence en matiere de droit collectif du travail...

He argues that the Norman dukes had a unique capacity for protagonism in the middle of the eleventh century and that this allowed them to initiate the expansion of their power; thereafter, the extended range of their influence meant that others had to engage with them in order to do what they wanted.

The Normans and Empire

The difficulty to satisfactorily accomplish the change of role in the Movement also seems to be related to the interruption between participation and action, in which participation constitutes the nature of juvenile protagonism, and of the position of girl, whereas the field of action is reserved to the position of educator.

The practice-position system as epistemological category: contributions to critical discourse analysis/O sistema posicao-pratica como categoria pistemologica: contribuicoes para adc

If we accept, as David Bordwell argues in "The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice," that the "art film" is a distinct and historically conditioned mode of cinematographic discourse, and, if we accept that one of the principal codes viewers turn to in making sense of the inherent ambiguity and/or obscurity of the art film is that of "authorial expressivity," then the destabilization of authorial protagonism within the film's diegesis compels us to seek that protagonism precisely in the extra-diegetic authorial code, in the machinations of the auteur himself.