| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Celluloid | holding a coating or film of chemicals sensitive to light |
| Kinetograph | early movie camera |
| Kinetoscope | small projection system, housed 50ft of film, that revolved on spools |
| Vitascope | large screen system which enabled filmstrips of longer lengths to be projected without interruption |
| Narrative Films | movies that tell stories |
| Nickelodeons | combines the admission price with the Greek word "theater" |
| Vertical Integration | movie business aim to dominate the movies on three essential levels, production,distribution,and exhibition |
| Oligopoly | in the film industry, where few firms control the bulk of the business |
| Studio System | pioneered by Thomas Ince, the system constituted a sort of assembly line process |
| Block Booking | to gain access to popular films, exhibitors had to agree to rent new or marginal films |
| Movie Palace | enjoy entertainment, such as operas,ballots,symphonies, or theater |
| Multiplexes | features multiple screens lure in the middle class crowds |
| BIG Five | MGM, Warner Bros, 20th Century, Paramount, RKO |
| Little Three | United Artist, Columbia, Universal |
| Newsreel | captures the first film footage with sound |
| Blockbuster | Movie Hits |
| Genre | category |
| Documentary | "creative treatment of actuality" |
| Cinema Verite' | Truth Film |
| Indies | Independent film |
| Megaplexes | facilities with 14 or more screens |
| Hollywood Ten | hearing and substantial trials |
| Paramount | forces the studios to Gradually divest themselves of their Theater lives |
| Synergy | the promotion of sale of a product throughout the various subsidiaries of the media conglomerate |
| Digital Video | directors replace Big bulky cameras with less expensive lightweight digital video cameras |
| Consensus Narratives | a term that describes cultural products that become popular and command wide attention |
| Partisan Press | political papers that generally pushed the plan of a political group |
| Penny Papers | Cheap papers that were used to make readers more affluent |
| Wire Services | cooperative arrangement founded in 1848, the Associated Press |
| Yellow Journalism | stories about crime,celebrities,disasters,scandals,and intrigue |
| Objective Journalism | distinguishes a factual reports from opinion columns and reporters to maintain a neutral attitude towards an issue |
| Interpretive Journalism | explains the key issues or events and place them in a broader historical context |
| Advocacy Journalism | an approach in which the reporter actively promotes a particular cause or viewpoint. |
| Precision Journalism | pushes news more in the direction of science |
| Literary Journalism | adapts fictional story telling techniques to nonfictional material and in-depth reporting |
| Human-Interest Stories | news accounts that focus on daily trails and triumphs of human condition |
| Wire Services | commercial organization that relayed on news stories and info around the country |
| Inverted Pyramid Style | reporters strive to maintain a neutral attitude towards an issue or event they cover. |
| Consensus Oriented Journalism | carrying articles on local schools.social events,town government,property crimes,zoning issues, LOCAL NEWS |
| Conflict Oriented Journalism | in which front-page news is often defined primarily as events issues or experiences that deviate as neutral fact |
| Newshole | space in the newspaper ad that was leftover, accounts remaining 35-50 percent |
| Feature Syndicates | commercial outlets that contract with newspapers to provide from the nations best political writers, cartoons, and comic strip artist |
| Joint Operation Agreement | two competing papers keep seperate news divisions while merging business and production operation for a period of years. |
| Newspaper Chains | companies that own several papers throughout the country |
| Magazines | collection of articles,stories,and advertisements appearing in nondaily. |
| Muckraking | label that Roosevelt used with disdain, form of investigative reports when reporters take risks on certain stories |
| General Interest Magazines | offered occasional investigative articles but covered a wide variety of topics |
| Photojournalism | the use of photos to document the rhythms of daily life. |
| Pass-Along Readership | that is the total number of people who come into contact with a single copy of a magazine. |
| Regional Editions | national magazines editions whose content are tailored to the internet to different geographic groups |
| Split Run Editions | tailored ads to different geographic areas |
| Demographic Groups | target particular groups of consumers |
| Supermarket Tabloids | neither a newspaper or magazine. |
| Webzines | magazines that appear exclusively on the Web |
| Desktop Publishing | enables a one aspiring publisher-editor magazines |
| Zines | also known as "zeens", flourish on the net |
| Ida Tarbell | takes on Standard Oil Company, because of the so called "control" |
| Lincoln Steffens | takes on city hall, urban problems, treason of the senate. |
| Upton Sinclair | takes on the meatpacking industry in Chicago (The Jungle) |
| 1800's | was known as the Expansion of Magazines |
| Niche Marketing | where the magazines try to sell to a particular audience |
| Narrowcasting | used to be called "niche publication", centers around human activity in advertisement |
| Advertising Sales | manage the income in streaming ads |
| Circulation and Distribution | either "paid" or "controlled circualation |
| 1927 | Sound comes to the movies |
| Paramount Decision | 1948 Supreme court forces studios to themselves in vertical intergration |
| 1977 | The first VHS and VCR's are made |
| 1997 | DVD's are created |
| 2000's | IMAX Experience begins |
| The Passion of Christ | the most sucessful independent film of all time |
| Columbus Dispatch | the first paper to go online |
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