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Genre |
A category of filmmaking that is recognized as a type possessing familiar narrative and stylistic conventions. |
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Film Noir |
"black film," film noir refers to a style or mode of filmmaking, which flourished between 1941 and 1958, that presents narratives involving crime or criminal actions in a manner that disturbs, disorients, or otherwise induces anxiety in the viewer |
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Melodrama |
a genre with an opposition between good and evil, in which good prevails |
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HUAC |
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was an investigating committee which investigated what it considered un-American propaganda, |
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Blacklisting |
A blacklist is a list or register of people who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, or mobility |
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Spaghetti Western |
a low-budget Western movie produced by a European film company |
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Storyboard |
A set of keyframes extracted from a segment of video that visually represent the content |
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Drive-In |
any installation (a theater) designed to accommodate patrons in their automobiles |
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3-D |
system of motion picture production and exhibition, (re-)introduced in the 1950s, that involved the creation of an illusion of depth/emergence, which was based on the principles of binocular vision. |
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Deep Focus |
eeping images close by and far away in sharp focus simultaneously |
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Voice-Over Narration |
Speech that accompanies a previously filmed sequence but does not come from the sequence itself. |
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Block Buster |
Movie which is a huge financial success |
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Dubbing |
The technique of combining multiple sound components into one |
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On Location |
On Location is a term used to describe the filming of a television show or movie on the actual site where the story is set, as opposed to indoors on a soundstage |
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