ScreenLex is a pronunciation guide for film and TV students, containing dozens of terms and filmmakers’ names.

An alphabetical list follows. Also, please see the categories on the right or use our search box. Suggestions for additions may be sent to us through our contact form.

• anamorphic
• auteur theory
• Barthes, Roland
• Baudrillard, Jean
• Bazin, André
• Borzage, Frank
• bourgeoisie
• Brechtian performance
• Cahiers du cinéma
• camera obscura
• cardioid microphone
• Chen, Joan
• Chen, Kaige
• Cherones, Tom
• chiaroscuro
• chroma key
• Cinémathèque Française
• Cixous, Hélène
• Colbert, Claudette
• Coppola, Francis Ford
• Cukor, George
• Deleuze, Gilles
• diegesis
• diegetic sound
• diegetic space
• distanciation
• Duras, Marguerite
• Eisenstein, Sergei
• Feng, Xiaogang
• Feng, Xiaoning
• film noir
• Gervais, Ricky
• Groening, Matt
• Gu, Changwei
• Gyllenhaal Family, The
• Herzog, Werner
• Hou, Hsiao-Hsien
• Hui, Ann
• Jiang, Wen
• Jokinen, Antti
• Kael, Pauline
• Kerr, Deborah
• Kerr, Walter
• Kieślowski, Krzysztof
• kinescope
• kinetoscope
• Koyaanisqatsi
• Kuleshov, Lev
• Kwapis, Ken
• Laemmle, Carl
• Langlois, Henri
• lavaliere microphone
• Li, Shaohong
• Michel Hazanavicius
• mise-en-scene
• Muybridge, Eadweard
• Méliès, Georges
• Ning, Hao
• paradigmatic
• Pathé Frères
• Perelman, S. J.
• Phenakistoscope
• Pitts, ZaSu
• polysemy
• proletariat
• Renoir, Jean
• Riefenstahl, Leni
• Robert Flaherty
• rotoscope
• Schlamme, Thomas
• Scorsese, Martin
• segue
• semiotics
• simulacrum
• simulcast
• SMPTE
• sync
• syntagmatic structure
• timbre
• Verfremdungseffekt
• verisimilitude
• videography
• Wajda, Andrzej
• Wang, Jiawei
• Wang, Xiaoshuai
• Wanger, Walter
• Wenders, Wim
• Wu, Yusen
• Zhang, Yimou
• Zoetrope
• Zoopraxiscope

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