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Outline of film, the Glossary

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to film: Film refers to motion pictures as individual projects and to the field in general.^[1]

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Action film

The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.

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Actor

An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a production.

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Adventure film

An adventure film is a genre of film.

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AFI 100 Years... series

The AFI's 100 Years… series was a series of annual lists from 1998 to 2008 by the American Film Institute—typically accompanied by CBS television specials—celebrating the century of American cinema.

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Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply AH) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Animation

Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.

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Art

Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.

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Artisan

An artisan (from artisan, artigiano) is a skilled craft worker who makes or creates material objects partly or entirely by hand.

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Avant-garde

In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

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B movie

A B movie (American English), or B film (British English), is a type of low-budget commercial motion picture.

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Biographical film

A biographical film or biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people.

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Block booking

Block booking is a system of selling multiple films to a theater as a unit.

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Budapest school

The Budapest school, or, was a Hungarian film movement that flourished from roughly 1972 to 1984.

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Business

Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services).

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Camera obscura

A camera obscura is a darkened room with a small hole or lens at one side through which an image is projected onto a wall or table opposite the hole.

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Children's film

A children's film, or family film, is a film genre that generally relates to children in the context of home and family.

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Cinéma du look

Cinéma du look was a French film movement of the 1980s and 1990s, analysed, for the first time, by French critic Raphaël Bassan in La Revue du Cinéma issue no.

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Cinema Novo

Cinema Novo, "New Cinema" in English, is a genre and movement of film noted for its emphasis on social equality and intellectualism that rose to prominence in Brazil during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Cinematography

Cinematography is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography.

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Comcast

Comcast Corporation (simply known as Comcast, and formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings),Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation.

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Comedy film

Comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor.

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Crime film

Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.

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Czechoslovak New Wave

The Czechoslovak New Wave (also Czech New Wave) is a term used for the Czechoslovak filmmakers who started making films in the 1960s.

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Data storage

Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Dogme 95

Dogme 95 (Danish for "Dogma 95") is a 1995 avant-garde filmmaking movement founded by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, who created the "Dogme 95 Manifesto" and the "Vows of Chastity" (kyskhedsløfter).

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Drama (film and television)

In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Existentialism

Existentialism is a family of views and forms of philosophical inquiry that explores the issue of human existence.

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Experimental film

Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working.

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Exploitation film

An exploitation film is a film that tries to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content.

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Fantasy film

Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds.

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Feature film

A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program.

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Film

A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.

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Film director

A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.

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Film editing

Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking.

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Film genre

A film genre is a stylistic or thematic category for motion pictures based on similarities either in the narrative elements, aesthetic approach, or the emotional response to the film.

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Film industry

The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post-production, film festivals, distribution, and actors.

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations.

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Film stock

Film stock is an analog medium that is used for recording motion pictures or animation.

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Film studio

A film studio (also known as movie studio or simply studio) is a major entertainment company that makes films.

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Film theory

Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; and that now provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large.

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Filmmaking

Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced.

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Fine art

In European academic traditions, fine art is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.

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Free Cinema

Free Cinema was a documentary film movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the mid-1950s.

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French New Wave

The New Wave (Nouvelle Vague), also called the French New Wave, is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s.

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Future

The future is the time after the past and present.

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Grupo Cine Liberación

The Grupo Cine Liberación ("The Liberation Film Group") was an Argentine film movement that took place during the end of the 1960s.

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High School Musical

High School Musical is a 2006 American musical television film produced by and aired on Disney Channel as part of the network's slate of original television films.

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Historical drama

A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents historical events and characters with varying degrees of fictional elements such as creative dialogue or fictional scenes which aim to compress separate events or illustrate a broader factual narrative.

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History of film

The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century.

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Hong Kong New Wave

The Hong Kong New Wave is a film movement in Chinese-language Hong Kong cinema that emerged in the late 1970s and lasted through the early 2000s until the present time.

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Horror film

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.

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Independent film

An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies (or, in some cases, distributed by major companies).

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Intertitle

In films, an intertitle, also known as a title card, is a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of (hence, inter-) the photographed action at various points.

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Italian neorealism

Italian neorealism (Neorealismo), also known as the Golden Age of Italian Cinema, was a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class.

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Japanese New Wave

The is a term for a group of loosely-connected Japanese films and filmmakers between the late 1950s and the early 1970s.

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Kammerspielfilm

Kammerspielfilm is a type of German film that offers an intimate, cinematic portrait of lower middle class life.

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L.A. Rebellion

The L.A. Rebellion film movement, sometimes referred to as the "Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers", or the UCLA Rebellion, refers to the new generation of young African and African-American filmmakers who studied at the UCLA Film School in the late-1960s to the late-1980s and have created a black cinema that provides an alternative to classical Hollywood cinema.

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List of Academy Award–winning films

This is a list of Academy Award–winning films.

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List of Academy Awards ceremonies

This is a list of Academy Awards ceremonies.

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List of biographical films

This is a list of biographical films.

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List of disaster films

This list of disaster films represents over half a century of films within the genre.

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List of drama films

List of drama films is a chronological listing of films in the drama genre.

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List of film and television directors

This is a list of notable directors in motion picture and television arts.

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List of film awards

This is a list of groups, organizations, and festivals that recognize achievements in cinema, usually by awarding various prizes.

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List of film distributors by country

This is a list of motion picture distributors, past and present, sorted alphabetically by country. Outline of film and list of film distributors by country are film-related lists.

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List of film festivals

This is a list of existing major film festivals, sorted by continent.

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List of film noir titles

Film noir is not a clearly defined genre (see here for details on the characteristics).

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List of film producers

Following is a list of notable film producers, some of whom have also worked in other media.

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List of film production companies

This is a list of film production and distribution companies. Outline of film and list of film production companies are film-related lists.

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List of film score composers

The following is a list of notable people who compose or have composed soundtrack music for films (i.e. film scores), television, video games and radio.

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List of films considered the worst

The films listed below have been cited by a variety of notable critics in varying media sources as being among the worst films ever made.

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List of films voted the best

This is a list of films voted the best in national and international surveys of critics and the public.

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List of films: numbers

It covers film titles that begin with a number, whether written in Arabic numerals or spelled out.

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List of Golden Globe Awards ceremonies

The Golden Globe Award is an American accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

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List of highest-grossing films

Films generate income from several revenue streams, including theatrical exhibition, home video, television broadcast rights, and merchandising.

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This article lists lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer-related films involving participation and/or representation of LGBT people.

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List of most expensive films

Due to the secretive nature of Hollywood accounting, it is not clear which film is the most expensive film ever made.

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List of most expensive non-English-language films

This is a non-definitive list of most expensive non-English-language films, with budgets given in United States dollars.

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List of motion picture film formats

This list of motion picture film formats catalogues formats developed for shooting or viewing motion pictures, ranging from the Chronophotographe format from 1888, to mid-20th century formats such as the 1953 CinemaScope format, to more recent formats such as the 1992 IMAX HD format. Outline of film and list of motion picture film formats are film-related lists.

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List of motion picture production equipment

The film industry uses many tools and types of equipment during and after production. Outline of film and List of motion picture production equipment are film-related lists.

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List of mystery films

A mystery film is a genre of film revolving around the solution to a problem or a crime.

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List of punk films

This is a list of films about the punk subculture and/or the music genre.

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This is a list of films that deal with the topic of race or racism.

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List of show business families

This is a list of contemporary (20th- or 21st-century) show business families.

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List of sports films

This compilation of films covers all sports activities.

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List of war films and TV specials

War depictions in film and television include documentaries, TV mini-series, and drama serials depicting aspects of historical wars.

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List of years in film

This page indexes the individual year in film pages.

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Lists of action films

This is chronological list of action films split by decade.

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Lists of actors

The following are lists of actors.

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Lists of adventure films

This is chronological list of adventure films split by decade.

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Lists of animated films

These lists of animated feature films compile animated feature films from around the world and are organized alphabetically under the year of release (the year the completed film was first released to the public).

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Lists of box office number-one films

The following are lists of films which have been placed number one at the weekend box office in a region.

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Lists of comedy films

This is an index of lists of comedy films split by decade, nationality and subject.

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Lists of crime films

This is a chronological list of crime films split by decade.

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Lists of fantasy films

List of fantasy films is a chronological listing of films in the fantasy genre.

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Lists of films

This is a list of film lists. Outline of film and lists of films are film-related lists.

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Lists of films based on location

The following Lists of films based on location are classified by the geographic area in which the films were set or shot.

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Lists of historical films

This is an index of lists of historical films.

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Lists of horror films

This is a list of lists of horror films.

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Lists of science fiction films

Science fiction films This is a list of science fiction films organized chronologically.

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Lists of thriller films

This is chronological list of thriller films split by decade.

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Lists of Western films

This is a list of notable Western films and TV series, ordered by year and decade of release.

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Live action

Live action is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation.

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Magic lantern

The magic lantern, also known by its Latin name lanterna magica, was an early type of image projector that used pictures—paintings, prints, or photographs—on transparent plates (usually made of glass), one or more lenses, and a light source.

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Major film studios

Major film studios are production and distribution companies that release a substantial number of films annually and consistently command a significant share of box office revenue in a given market.

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Motion Picture Patents Company

The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust), founded in December 1908 and effectively terminated in 1915 after it lost a federal antitrust suit, was a trust of all the major US film companies and local foreign-branches (Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig Polyscope, Lubin Manufacturing, Kalem Company, Star Film Paris, American Pathé), the leading film distributor (George Kleine) and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak.

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Movie projector

A movie projector (or film projector) is an opto-mechanical device for displaying motion picture film by projecting it onto a screen.

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Mumblecore

Mumblecore is a subgenre of independent filmHoberman, J. (August 14, 2007).

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Musical film

Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

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Mystery film

A mystery film is a film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime.

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NBCUniversal

NBCUniversal Media, LLC (abbreviated as NBCU and doing business as simply NBCUniversal or Comcast NBCUniversal since 2013) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is a subsidiary of Comcast and is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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New Extremity

New Extreme Films (New Extremity or, also often, New French Extremity) describes a range of transgressive films made at the turn of the 21st century that sparked controversy, and provoked significant debate and discussion.

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New Hollywood

The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, American New Wave, or New American Cinema (not to be confused with the New American Cinema of the 1960s that was part of avant-garde underground cinema), was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence.

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New Nigerian Cinema

New Nigerian Cinema or New Nigerian Cinema era (also known as New Wave or controversially as New Nollywood) is an emerging phase in Nigerian cinema, in which there became a major shift in the method of film production, from the video format, which came about during the video boom, back to the cinema method, which constituted the films produced in the Golden era of Nigerian cinema history.

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New queer cinema

"New queer cinema" is a term first coined by the academic B. Ruby Rich in Sight & Sound magazine in 1992 to define and describe a movement in queer-themed independent filmmaking in the early 1990s.

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Nihilism

Nihilism is a family of views within philosophy that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence, such as knowledge, morality, or meaning.

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No wave cinema

No wave cinema was an underground filmmaking movement that flourished on the Lower East Side of New York City from about 1976 to 1985.

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Non-narrative film

Non-narrative film is an aesthetic of cinematic film that does not narrate, or relate "an event, whether real or imaginary".

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Not-for-profit organization

A not-for-profit or non-for-profit organization (NFPO) is a legal entity that does not distribute surplus funds to its members and is formed to fulfill specific objectives.

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Outer space

Outer space (or simply space) is the expanse that exists beyond Earth's atmosphere and between celestial bodies.

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Outline (list)

An outline, also called a hierarchical outline, is a list arranged to show hierarchical relationships and is a type of tree structure.

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Parallel cinema

Parallel cinema or New Indian Cinema, is a film movement in Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal in the 1950s as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema.

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Paramount Global

Paramount Global (also known simply as Paramount) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate controlled by National Amusements and headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Times Square, Midtown Manhattan.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.

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Performance

A performance is an act or process of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment.

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Performing arts

The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience.

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Phantasmagoria

Phantasmagoria, alternatively fantasmagorie and/or fantasmagoria, was a form of horror theatre that (among other techniques) used one or more magic lanterns to project frightening images – such as skeletons, demons, and ghosts – onto walls, smoke, or semi-transparent screens, typically using rear projection to keep the lantern out of sight.

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Photographic film

Photographic film is a strip or sheet of transparent film base coated on one side with a gelatin emulsion containing microscopically small light-sensitive silver halide crystals.

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Poetic realism

Poetic realism was a film movement in France of the 1930s.

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Polish Film School

Polish Film School (Polska Szkoła Filmowa) refers to an informal group of Polish film directors and screenplay writers active between 1956 and approximately 1963.

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Polyester

Polyester is a category of polymers that contain one or two ester linkages in every repeat unit of their main chain.

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Pornographic film

Pornographic films (pornos), erotic films, adult films, sex films, 18+ films, or also known as blue movie or blue film (in British English and other English-speaking countries), are films that present sexually explicit subject matter in order to arouse, fascinate, or satisfy the viewer.

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Pure Film Movement

The was a trend in film criticism and filmmaking in 1910s and early 1920s Japan that advocated what were considered more modern and cinematic modes of filmmaking.

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Remodernist film

Remodernist film developed in the United States and the United Kingdom in the early 21st century with ideas related to those of the international art movement Stuckism and its manifesto, Remodernism.

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Romance (love)

Romance or romantic love is a feeling of love for, or a strong attraction towards another person, and the courtship behaviors undertaken by an individual to express those overall feelings and resultant emotions.

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Romance film

Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters.

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Science fiction film

Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, mutants, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies.

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Screenwriter

A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, and video games, are based.

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Serial film

A serial film, film serial (or just serial), movie serial, or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, generally advancing weekly, until the series is completed.

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Set construction

Set construction is the process undertaken by a construction manager to build full-scale scenery, as specified by a production designer or art director working in collaboration with the director of a production to create a set for a theatrical, film, or television production.

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Sex in film

Sex in film, the presentation of aspects of sexuality in film, especially human sexuality, has been controversial since the development of the medium.

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Short film

A short film is a film with a low running time.

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Show business

Show business, sometimes shortened to show biz or showbiz (since 1945), is a vernacular term for all aspects of the entertainment industry.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue).

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Sony

, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Sony Pictures

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms.

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Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group

The Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group (commonly known as the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, formerly known as the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group until 2013, and abbreviated as SPMPG) is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment to manage its motion picture operations.

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Sound stage

A sound stage (also written soundstage) is a large, soundproof structure, building or room with large doors and high ceilings, used for the production of theatrical film-making and television productions, usually located on a secured movie or television studio property.

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Sports film

A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme.

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Sword and sorcery

Sword and sorcery (S&S) or heroic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures.

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Technician

A technician is a worker in a field of technology who is proficient in the relevant skill and technique, with a relatively practical understanding of the theoretical principles.

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Teen film

Teen film is a film genre targeted at teenagers, preteens and/or young adults by the plot being based on their special interests, such as coming of age, attempting to fit in, bullying, peer pressure, first love, teen rebellion, conflict with parents, and teen angst or alienation.

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Television film

A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie, telefilm, telemovie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for initial showing in movie theaters, and direct-to-video films made for initial release on home video formats.

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The arts

The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.

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Third Cinema

Third Cinema (Tercer Cine) is a Latin American film movement that started in the 1960s–70s which decries neocolonialism, the capitalist system, and the Hollywood model of cinema as mere entertainment to make money.

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman.

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Thriller film

Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience.

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Universal Studios, Inc.

Universal Studios, Inc. (formerly as MCA Inc., also known simply as Universal) is an American media and entertainment conglomerate and is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.

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Visual arts

The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, comics, design, crafts, and architecture.

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Walt Disney Studios (division)

The Walt Disney Studios is a major division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of The Walt Disney Company best known for housing its multifaceted film studio divisions.

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War film

War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama.

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Warner Bros.

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Warner Bros.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.

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Yugoslav Black Wave

Yugoslav Black Wave (also referred to as Black Wave; or Црни талас) is a blanket term for a Yugoslav film movement of the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Zoetrope

A zoetrope is a pre-film animation device that produces the illusion of motion, by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_film

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