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🎥Intro to Film Theory
Key Terms

409 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Film Theory exam

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35mm
3D Technologies
4:3
70mm

A

Abstract Films
Act II
Act III
Action Editing
Action-adventure
Active Audience
Active viewing
Actor positioning
Aesthetic experience
Aesthetic hybridity
Akira Kurosawa
Alexandre Astruc
Alfred Hitchcock
Algorithmic culture
Allegorical storytelling
Ambient sound
Ambiguity in film
Analogous colors
Andrei Tarkovsky
André Bazin
Angles
Anti-hero
Apparatus Theory
Aspect Ratios
Assistant editor
Audience agency
Audience alignment
Audience expectation
Audience identification
Audience immersion
Audience reception
Audience studies
Audio continuity
Audio post-production
Audio-visual relationship
Audiovisual grammar
Auditory continuity
Auditory immersion
Auditory realism
Auteur-structuralism
Authentic representation
Authorial Intent
Avant-garde cinema
Average shot length

B

Battleship Potemkin
Bazin's Myth of Total Cinema
Bechdel Test
Bechdel-Wallace Test
Beta Movement
Blaxploitation films
Blaxploitation genre
Blockbuster era
Bottom Lighting
Box office performance
Breaking the fourth wall

C

Cahiers du cinéma
Camera Angles
Camera-stylo
Caméra-stylo
Cavell's Film Philosophy
Cgi (computer-generated imagery)
Character Arc
Character design
Character transformations
Character-driven stories
Character-driven storytelling
Charlie Chaplin
Cinématographe
Citizen Kane
Claire johnston
Classical hollywood narrative