Editing Booing (section)

==Popular culture==
Rarer still is for motion pictures to be booed at their openings, and this is usually confined to [[film festivals]] when the production team is present.<ref>{{cite news|magazine=Time |title=Review: Ryan Gosling's Lost River: Crazy Like a Rat |author=Richard Corliss |date=May 20, 2014  |quote="First came the boos, like an owl symphony, or a cattle crescendo. Then, a smattering of defiant applause. Then, the boos again. The antiphonal response could have gone on all afternoon, with catcalls winning in a landslide, but the critics had other movies to see." |url=https://time.com/106139/lost-river-ryan-gosling-cannes-movie-review/}}</ref>

In traditional British [[pantomime]], the audience is generally encouraged to direct boos and possibly other forms of [[Incivility|put-downs]] towards the antagonist(s), while the protagonist and other positive characters are  celebrated.<ref>Millie Taylor, ''British Pantomime Performance'' (Intellect Ltd 2007), pp. 127-28.</ref>