Glossary
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- 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
- Colbert, Claudette
- Coppola, Francis Ford
- Cukor, George
- Deleuze, Gilles
- diegesis
- diegetic sound
- diegetic space
- distanciation
- Eisenstein, Sergei
- Feng, Xiaogang
- Feng, Xiaoning
- film noir
- Groening, Matt
- Gu, Changwei
- Gyllenhaal Family, The
- Hou, Hsiao-Hsien
- Hui, Ann
- Jiang, Wen
- Jokinen, Antti
- Kael, Pauline
- Kieślowski, Krzysztof
- kinescope
- kinetoscope
- Kuleshov, Lev
- Kwapis, Ken
- Langlois, Henri
- lavaliere microphone
- Li, Shaohong
- mise-en-scene
- Méliès, Georges
- Ning, Hao
- paradigmatic
- Pathé Frères
- Perelman, S. J.
- Pitts, ZaSu
- polysemy
- proletariat
- Renoir, Jean
- Riefenstahl, Leni
- rotoscope
- Schlamme, Thomas
- Scorsese, Martin
- segue
- semiotics
- simulacrum
- simulcast
- sync
- syntagmatic structure
- timbre
- Verfremdungseffekt
- verisimilitude
- videography
- Wajda, Andrzej
- Wang, Jiawei
- Wang, Xiaoshuai
- Wenders, Wim
- Wu, Yusen
- Zhang, Yimou
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