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180-degree rule
24 frames per second
30-degree rule
35mm
3-D
Abby Singer
absolute film
abstract
absurdism
Academy Awards
acts
action
actor/actress
actualities
adaptation
ad lib
aerial shot
Alan Smithee
A List
allegory
allusion
alternate ending
ambiance
angle
animation
anime
antagonist
anthology film
anti-hero
aperture
arc shot
armorer
art house film
aside
aspect ratio
assembly
atmosphere
audition
auteur
available light
Avant-garde
B Camera
B-Movie
baby legs
backdrops
background music
backlighting
back lot
back projection
back story
balance
based on a true story
beat
behind the scenes
best boy
biling
bio pic
bird's-eye view
bit part
black & white
black comedy (dark comedy)
black face
Blacklist
Blaxploitation
blimp
blockbluster
blocking a shot
body double
body makeup
Bollywood
bookends
boom
boom shot
boot leg
bowdlerized
box office
breakthrough role
buddy film
building a scene
bumper
callbacks
call sheet
cameo
camera
camera angle
campy
canted framing
capsule review
cast
cast against type
casting
casting couch
catharsis
cautionary tale
cel
censorship
CGI
character
character actor
character study
chiaroscuro
chick flick
child actor
choreographer
chute cowboys
chyron
cinch marks
cineaste
cinematic
cinematographer
cinema verite
clapboard
claymation
clean room
cliffhanger
climax
close-up
coda
coding
color
colorization
comedy
comic relief
coming of age film
command performance
commentary
compilation film
complication
composer
concert film (rockumentary)
continuity
contract player
contrast
conventions
Coogan's Law
courtroom drama
coverage
cowboy shot
crane shot
credits
crisis
critic
cross-cutting
cross-over
crowd shot
cue
cult film
cut
cutaway shot
cyclorama
dailies
dark horse
day for night shot
deadpan
decay
decoupage
deep-focus shot
deleted scene
denouement
depth of field
dialouge
dialect coach
diegesis
directing the eye
direct sound
director
director's cut
discovery shot
dissolve
documentary
dolly
doppelganger
double
double exposure
double take
draftsman
drive-in
dubbing
dummy load
dystopia
editing
ellipsis
epic
epilouge
epiphany
episode
episodic
establishing shot
experimental film
exploitation film
exposition
expressionism
exterior
extras
eyeline match
fade
farce
feature film
featurette
feel good film
film
film aesthetics
film artifact
film clip
film noir
filmography
film review
film stock
film within a film
final cut
fish-eye
fish out of the water tale
flashback
flash forward
flash frame
flop
focus
foil
foley artist
foreground
foreign film
foreshadowing
forward
fourth wall
frame
freeze frame
gaffer
gag based comedies
gel
gender bending role
general release
genre
gothic
green light
greensman
grindhouse film
grip
guerilla film
guilty pleasure film
handheld shot
hardtop
head-on shot
hero/heroine
high angle shot
high definition
hitting a mark
homage
hoofer
horror
hybrid film
hype
iconography
IMAX
independent films
ingenue
insert shot
inside joke
interior
interlude
intrusion
jukebox musical
jump cut
juxtaposition
key light
kinescope
landmark film
lead role
leitmotif
letterboxed
lighting
lines
lip sync
location
locked-down shot
logline
long shot
long take
looping
low angle shot
madcap comedy
magic hour
male gaze
master shot
match cut
MacGuffin
medium shot
melodrama
method acting
midnight movies
miscast
mise en scene
mockumentary
modern classic
money shot
monolouge
montage
motif
MPAA
musical
narration
naturalism
Neo-Realism
New Wave
nickelodeon
nihilism
non-speaking role
nostalgic film
nudie flick
nuking the fridge
oat opera
obligatory scene
obstacle
offstage
omniscient point of view
one-liner
one-reeler
opaquer
outtakes
overacting
overlap
over the shoulder shot
overture
ozoner
panning shot
pan & scan
parody
payoff
pin-up girl
pitch
plot
point of view
point of view shot
porn
post-modern
post production
potboiler
pre-code
premiere
prequel
preview
pre-screen
principal photography
principals
prison film
producer
product placement
production
production design
prolouge
protagonist
punchline
ratings
reaction shot
real time
realism
red carpet
reel
re-enactment
reissue
remake
re-release
resolution
retrospective
reverse angle shot
revisionistic
running time
satire
scenario
scene
scene stealing
scopophilia
score
screen direction
screenplay
screen test
screwball comedy
script
segment
segmentation
sepia tone
sequel
sequence
series
set
setting
sexploitation
shoot
short subject
shot
silent films
size
slapstick comedy
slasher film
sleeper
slow motion
snub
soliloquy
soundstage
soundtrack
spaghetti western
special effects
spin-off
split screen
spoiler
spoof
squib
star system
stasis
stereotyping
stock character
stock footage
storyboard
straight man
studio
studio system
stunt double
subjective point of view
subplot
subtext
subtitles
super impose
supporting roles
surrealism
symmetry
synchronous sound
tagline
take
talkies
tearjerker
telephotolens
theme
theme music
tilt shot
time lapse
tint
title role
tone
tour de force
tracking shot
trademark
trailer
transition
treatment
trilogy
triple threat
twist ending
typecasting
unbilled role
uncredited role
underacting
underground film
unions
vaudeville
VCR
verisimilitude
vigilante film
vignette
voice over
walk-through
wide angle shot
widescreen
wind noise
wrap
Wilhelm scream
zoom shot
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