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Film studies
The academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films.
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underground film
Cinema; Film studies
A low-budget, non-commercial film, usually independently-made, without the traditional sources of funding or distribution. For example New York Film School developed from underground film of the 50s.
avant-garde
Cinema; Film studies
Refers to an experimental, abstract, or highly independent, non-independent film that is often the forerunner of a new artistic genre or art form; avant-garde films self-consciously emphasize ...
point of view
Cinema; Film studies
The perspective from which the film story is told; also refers to a shot that depicts the outlook or position of a character; also see omniscient and subjective point of view.
narrative film
Cinema; Film studies
A structured series of events, linked by cause and effect, that provide the plot of a film; a film that tells a chronological or linear story (with a beginning, middle, and end), as opposed to ...
genre
Cinema; Film studies
Originally a French word meaning "kind", "sort" or "type"; refers to a class or type of film (i.e., westerns, sci-fi, etc.) that shares common, predictable or distinctive artistic and thematic ...
mise-en-scene
Cinema; Film studies
Mise-en-scene or literally translated 'what's put into the scene' is sum of all factors relating to the shot or scene. These can include shot selection, shot composition, production design and set ...
New Wave
Cinema; Film studies
Also known as Nouvelle Vague; originally referred to a group of individualistic, innovative, and non-traditional French filmmakers, directors and producers in the late 1950s and early 1960s, ...
