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Film Culture |
The practices, institutions, and communities surrounding film production, publicity, and appreciation that shape our expectations, ideas, and understanding of movies |
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Film Studies |
A discipline that reflects critically on the nature and history of movies and the place of film in culture. |
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Experiential circumstances |
The material conditions that define our identity at a certain time and in a certain place, such as our age, gender, race, linguistic and socioeconomic background, and the part of the country or world which we live. |
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Experiential history |
The personal and social encounters, such as education, relationships, travels, and even other films we’ve seen, through which we have developed our identities over time. |
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Identification |
The complex process through which we empathize with or project feeling onto a character or an action, is commonly associated with our emotional responses. |
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Cognition |
The aspects of comprehension that make up our rational reactions and thought processes, also contributes to our pleasure in watching movies |
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Preproduction: |
The phase when a film project is in development, involving preparing the script, financing the project, casting, hiring crew, and securing locations. |
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Screenwriter |
A writer of a film’s screenplay; the screenwriter may begin with a treatment and develop the plot structure and dialogue over the span of several versions; also called a scriptwriter. |
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Treatment |
A succinct description of the content of a film written before the screenplay or script. |
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Screenplay |
The text from which a movie is made, including dialogue and information about action, settings, etc., as well as shots and transitions; developed from a treatment. Also known as a script. |