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Cinema & Media Studies Terms 1. 180 degree rule 45. French New Wave/ nouvelle 2. above the line vague 3. abstract 46. genre/sub-genre 4. actor 47. German expressionism 5. adaptation 48. handheld shot 6. aerial shot 49. Hays code 7. alternate ending 50. high-angle shot 8. anachronism 51. high-definition 9. angle 52. highlighting 10. animation 53. Hollywood blacklist 11. antagonist 54. iconography 12. arc shot 55. ideology 13. aspect ratio 56. insert shot 14. auteur/auteur theory/politique des 57. intertextuality auteurs/Cahiers du Cinema 58. iris 15. avant-garde 59. Italian neo-realism 16. backlighting 60. jump cut 17. balance 61. lighting 18. Black cinema-UK 62. long-shot 19. blaxploitation-USA 63. looping 20. blockbuster 64. low-angle shot 21. blue-screen 65. master shot 22. chiaroscuro 66. matte shot 23. cinema verité 67. medium shot 24. cinemascope 68. metaphor 25. classic Hollywood cinema/classic 69. mise en scene narrative cinema 70. montage 26. close-up 71. motif 27. compilation film 72. narrative film 28. continuity editing 73. obligatory scene 29. contrast 74. over-the-shoulder shot 30. crane shot 75. overture 31. cross-cutting 76. pan 32. cut 77. point of view shot 33. deep-focus shot 78. postcolonial theory 34. depth of focus/depth of field 79. protagonist 35. dissolve 80. Queer cinema 36. documentary 81. reaction shot 37. double-exposure 82. realism 38. editing 83. rough cut 39. establishing shot 84. script 40. expressionism 85. sepia tone 41. eyeline matching 86. sequence 42. film noir 87. shot/reverse angle shot 43. flashback 88. smash-cut 44. foreground 89. Soviet montage Cinema & Media Studies Terms 90. spectator/spectator- identification/female spectator 91. split-screen 92. star system/star as capital value 93. studio system 94. subjective point-of-view 95. tracking shot/traveling shot/dollying shot 96. transition 97. visual effects 98. voyeurism/fetishism 99. wide-angle shot 100. zoom .

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