Meanings
adjectivecontestatory (comparative more contestatory, superlative most contestatory)
comparative more contestatory · superlative most contestatory
- Serving to contest something.
It is one thing to compare the claims that can be made for cinema as a homogeneous and homogenizing, versus a heterogeneous institution, and another thing to valorize heterogeneity as necessarily contestatory.
2002, Judith Mayne, Cinema and Spectatorship, page 80
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