Film studies

Film studies

The academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films.

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Sophia Loren (Sofia Villani Scicolone) is the most famous Italian actress, born in 1934 in Rome. His first film role was in LeRoy's film Quo Vadis. Her first starring role was in Aida. Then she had ...

voice-over_₀₁

Cinema; Film studies

Merriam-Webster.com defines "voice-over" as "words that are spoken in a movie or television program by a person who is not seen by the audience." For example, Tom Hanks provided the voice-over for ...

voice-over

Cinema; Film studies

According to Merriam-Webster.com, "voice-over" means "words that are spoken in a movie or television program by a person who is not seen." The thoughts of Tom Hanks' ...

subtitling

Cinema; Film studies

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. ...

captioning

Cinema; Film studies

Closed captioning (CC) and subtitling are both processes of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information. Both are ...

The Star System

Cinema; Film studies

The star system is a system by which Hollywood actors must portray a sort of ideal on-screen image of their characters in order to please the general public The system puts emphasis on the image ...