p.o.v.

See also: pov, PoV, POV, pov', and P.O.V.

English

Noun

p.o.v.

1. Alternative form of POV (“point of view”)
   • 1985, John Hartley, Martin Montgomery, “Representations and Relations: Ideology and Power in Press and TV News”, in Teun A[drianus] van Dijk, editor, Discourse and Communication: New Approaches to the Analysis of Mass Media Discourse and Communication (Research in Text Theory), Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, part II (Applications, Extensions, Critical Approaches), page 249:

     As far as the picketers are concerned, we can establish the point of view (p. o. v.) of the shots of them by reversal: this can be done by asking whether the camera p. o. v. is that of the strikers themselves. For this to be so we would have to see the scene from their p. o. v.; […]

   • 1998, Frank Castelluccio, Alvin Walker, The Other Side of Ethel Mertz: The Life Story of Vivian Vance, Knowledge, Ideas & Trends, →ISBN, page xi:

     From my p.o.v., they seemed to be great but cautious friends.

   • 2004, C. J. Ackerly, S. E. Gontarski, The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader’s Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought, Grove Press, →ISBN:

     Act III is embedded in Act II, the “Repeat” Voice called for at the end of II, this time as mime, without narration, but with camera adopting Figure’s p.o.v. on occasion. Figure opens door, to “corridor seen from door,” ditto window, with added sound and sight of rain, ditto pallet, ditto mirror (“reflecting nothing” at first, then his reflection from his p.o.v.), each inspection interspersed with a God-like view from above.

   • 2004, Experience Music Project, edited by Eric Weisbard, This is Pop: In Search of the Elusive at Experience Music Project, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 292:

     Nutty behavior, from my p.o.v., but still vestigially about the music: the desire to hear every variation, every version.

   • 2005, Susanne Severeid, The Death of Milly Mahoney: The Ghosts of Time, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 183:

     Anonymous, but from their p.o.v. too credible not to act immediately.

   • 2006, Jim Feast, Ron Kolm, Neo Phobe, Unbearable Books, page 154:

     From his p.o.v., the accumulation of extenuating circumstances that led to his one-night jag with Marco […]

   • 2006, Ellen Summerfield, Sandra Lee, Seeing the Big Picture: A Cinematic Approach to Understanding Cultures in America, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page x:

     The camera moves at “child’s-eye level,” and we walk around as Benjamin does, taking things in from his p.o.v.

   • 2008, Glenda Baker, Because It Works!: How-To Articles from New England Writers’ Network, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 56:

     As soon as you write what the concierge thinks, you are in his head and are now writing from his p.o.v. Some p.o.v. shifts are more subtle.

   • 2008, Oversight: Gulf Coast Disaster Loans and the Future of the Disaster Assistance Program: Hearing Before the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 197:

     To have my loan application sit in a backlog for months and months and suddenly (from their p.o.v.) have it withdrawn due to lack of available contact in an arbitrary 7-10 day period.

   • 2010, Donald N. S. Unger, Men Can: The Changing Image and Reality of Fatherhood in America, Temple University Press, →ISBN, page 202:

     From his p.o.v., we see a bed with twin pillows, with twin light fixtures attached to the wall above the head of the bed.

   • 2020, Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, Deniz Göktürk, Claudia Sandberg, editors, The German Cinema Book, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 257:

     (2) Barbara looking at André, as seen from his p.o.v. (shot); (3) André looking at Barbara, as seen from her p.o.v. (reverse shot); (4) Barbara reciprocating André’s tentative smile with one of her own, as seen from his p.o.v. (final shot).

Anagrams

• VOP, OVP, OPV, PVO