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- 1ActualitiesEarly films that documented everyday events, such as workers leaving a factory
- 2ApparatusFrench theoriest Jean-Louis Baudry's body of thought arguing that the technological apparatus (lenses, cameras, projectors, not just content) were inherently ideological
- 3Associational editingEDIT PLZ
- 4AuteurTranslates as "author." A term for film directors that was popularized by French film critics and refers to film directors with their OWN DISTINCITVE STYLE
- 5City SymphonyA type of short film that blends elements of documentary and avant-garde film to document and celebrate the wonder of the modern city
- 6Continuity Editing"Invisible Editing," a system devised to minimize the audience's awareness of shot transitions in order to improve the flow of the story
- 7CutAn abrupt shot transition that occurs when Shot A is INSTANTLY replaced by Shot B
- 8CutawayA shot that focuses audience attention on precise details that may or may not be the focus of characters
- 9DissolveA shot transition that involves the gradual disappearance of the image at the same time that a new image gradually comes into view
- 10Eyeline MatchA continuity editing technique that preserves spatial continuity by using a characters line of vision as motivation for a cut
- 11Graphic matchA shot transition that emphasizes the visual similarities between two consecutive shots
- 12Hollywood BlacklistIndividuals who were prevented from working in the film industry because of their suspected involvement with Communist interests
- 13InterpellationLouis Althusser's term for the way in which a society creates its subjects/citizens through ideological state apparatuses (education, media religion, and the family)
- 14Iris InA form of shot transition, generally concluding a scene, where a circular mask constricts around the image until black
- 15Iris OutReverse of Iris In
- 16Kuleshov EffectA mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
- 17Line readingThe way an actor delivers a line of dialogue, including pauses, inflection, and emotion
- 18Parallel editingA technique of cutting back and forth between action occurring in two different locations, which often creates the illusion that they are happening simultaneously. Also called "Cross Cutting"
- 19Propaganda filmA documentary or narrative film that presents only one side of an argument or one approach to a subject
- 20RotoscopeA device that projects photographs or footage onto glass so that images can be traced by hand to create animated images
- 21Shot/reverse shotA standard shot pattern that dictates that a shot of one character will be followed by a shot of another character, taken from the reverse angle of the first shot
- 22Shot transitionThe use of editing techniques, such as a fade or dissolve, to indicate the end of one scene and the beginning of another
- 23Soviet montageAn alternative to continuity editing, this style was developed in Soviet cinema, based on the theory that editing should exploit the difference between shots to generate intellectual and emotional responses in the audience
- 24SubtextAn unstated meaning that underlies and is implied by spoken dialogue
- 25TextThe term for a film's spoken dialogue, as opposed to the underlying meaning contained in the subtext
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