Crossword clues for puppeteer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1917, from puppet + -eer.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who uses a puppet. 2 (context figurative English) Someone who is manipulative and able to get others to do what they want in a puppet-like manner. vb. To (l/en: control) a person or organisation.
WordNet
n. one who operates puppets or marionettes
Wikipedia
A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object that is typically shaped like a human, animal or mythical creature, such as a puppet, in real time to create the illusion that the puppet is "alive". The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from the audience. A puppeteer can operate a puppet indirectly by the use of strings, rods, wires, electronics or directly by his or her own hands placed inside the puppet or holding it externally. Some puppet styles require two or more puppeteers to work together to create a single puppet character.
There are a wide range of styles of puppetry but whatever the style, the puppeteer's role is to manipulate the physical object in such a manner that the audience believes the object is imbued with life. In some instances, the persona of the puppeteer is also an important feature, as with Ventriloquist's dummy performers, in which the puppeteer and the human figure-styled puppet appear onstage together. Typically, the puppeteer speaks in the role of the puppet's character, and then synchronizes the movements of the puppet's "mouth" with her spoken part.
The relationship between the puppeteer and the puppet-maker is similar to that between an actor and a playwright, in cases where a puppet-maker designs a puppet for a puppeteer. Very often, though, the puppeteer assumes the joint roles of puppet-maker, director, designer, writer and performer. In this case a puppeteer is a more complete theatre practitioner than is the case with other theatre forms, in which one person writes a play, another person directs it, and then actors perform the lines and gestures.
Puppetry is a live medium and this distinguishes it from the use of puppets in animation, in which animators make a puppet appear to move by using a stop motion film technique in which the puppet is moved tiny fractions between each filmed frame.
Puppeteer is a platformer game developed by SCE Japan Studio for the PlayStation 3 It is directed by Gavin Moore, who served as lead animator on The Getaway, Forbidden Siren 2 and Siren: Blood Curse. The game was released worldwide on September 2013.
It is playable in both traditional 2D and in 3D. Gavin Moore says Puppeteer plays better in 3D than other games because the camera doesn’t move and his team used a method of 3D that hasn’t resulted in a reduced frame-rate.
A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object to create the illusion that it is alive.
Puppeteer may also refer to:
- Puppeteer (comics), DC Comics supervillain
- Puppeteer (video game), a 2013 videogame by SCE Japan Studio
- The Puppeteer, previous title of the 2006 album Kelis Was Here
- Pierson's Puppeteers, frequently abbreviated to "Puppeteer", a fictional alien race from Larry Niven's Known Space books
- "Puppeteer", a song by Auryn from the 2014 album Circus Avenue
Usage examples of "puppeteer".
In Japan I had seen a style of puppet theater called Bunraku, where the puppeteers stand right onstage, moving these elegant dolls around without the slightest pretense of invisibility.
I found myself arguing with some faceless audience in my mind--the Bunraku puppeteers, I suppose--insisting that, with all the precautions I had taken, I was more likely to be attacked by killer bees than to get pregnant.
The Bunraku puppeteers seemed to be crowding around me, somber and patient, but relentless.
Of course, I had been aware of the Bunraku puppeteers for months--but I had never quite let go of my disbelief in them.
John about the Bunraku puppeteers, about the strange things I had experienced during the last five months.
I like to think that the homeless man may have been acting under the influence of the Bunraku puppeteers.
From my new perspective, the one I had picked up while expecting Adam, I hoped the Bunraku puppeteers had a plan for how this might be done.
My physical well-being almost made up for my greatly diminished sensitivity to the Bunraku puppeteers.
After watching Adam and the dolphins together, I was convinced that they were communicating in some method indiscernible to my mundane senses, the way the Bunraku puppeteers had communicated with me while I was pregnant.
I and the Hindmost are the only ones in known space who know what the puppeteers have been doing, besides anyone either of us might have told.
The Winchester kicked against his shoulder, and through the haze of powder smoke that spurted from its muzzle, he saw the ambusher go flying from the back of the horse as if he were a puppet being jerked around by a puppeteer in a giant Punch and Judy show.
Bothan Ver said, hauling in the mainsheet, nail-bitten fingers directing the rope precisely, delicately, like a puppeteer pulling on the strings of his marionette.
He wanders onwards and upwards in zig-zag fashion until he finds himself, at last, above the Festival tree-line and out of tambourine-rattling reach of the hordes of street harpists, flautists, violinists, cellists, banjo players, bongo drummers, mime artistes, puppeteers, body-paint workshops, Irish line dancers, hip-hop dancers and the familiar chorus of unicyclists, stilt-walkers, clowns and jugglers, all of them desperately performing to the hilt as if on the orders of some mad film director concocting an ambitious epic in which they will play the street people.
The puppeteer in the next room, watching through a screen, made Bobo bend at the waist and tilt his head.
The puppeteers, minstrels, jugglers and other entertainers of the Six Duchies prospered.