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📺Film and Media Theory
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898 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Film and Media Theory exam

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#metoo
180-degree rule
30-degree rule

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Accountability
Accuracy
Acousmatic Sound
Action blockbusters
Action-comedy
Active Audience
Active Audiences
Active fandom
Activist cinema
Activist media
Actor-network theory
Adaptation theory
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Advertising commodification
Affect theory
Affective fandom
African Cinema
Agenda Setting
Agenda-setting
Agnes Varda
Aids crisis
Akira Kurosawa
Alfred Hitchcock
Allegory
Allusion
Alternative histories
Ambient noise
American Film Institute Code of Ethics
Amitav Ghosh
Andrew Sarris
André Bazin
Antagonist
Antonio Gramsci
Arjun Appadurai
Arthouse films
ASL
Aspect Ratio
Associational montage
Athena Film Festival
Atmosphere
Audience Agency
Audience commodity
Audience expectations
Audience fragmentation
Audience manipulation
Audience perception
Audience positioning
Audience Reception
Audience reception theory
Augmented Reality
Auteur
Auteur theory
Auteurism
Authenticity
Ava DuVernay
Avant-garde
Avant-garde cinema
Average shot length

B

Babel
Background
BBC Editorial Guidelines
Bechdel Test
Bell hooks
Bend It Like Beckham
Berlin Film Festival
Bill Nichols
Binary Oppositions
Birds' eye view film festival
Black feminist film criticism
Black girl
Blue is the Warmest Color
Bollywood