Film theory

creative and technical post-production processing of film

classification of films based on similarities in narrative elements

aspect of history

thumb|Vladimir Propp in 1928. Literary historian, university professor, linguist, writer, and Soviet philologist. Precursor of narratology.|249x249px Narratology is the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect human perception. The term is an anglicisation of French narratologie, coined by Tzvetan Todorov (Grammaire du Décaméron, 1969). Its theoretical lineage is traceable to Aristotle (Poetics) but modern narratology is agreed to have begun with the Russian formalists, particularly Vladimir Propp (Morphology of the Folktale, 1928), and Mikhail Bakhtin's theori

Mimesis (; , mīmēsis) is a term used in literary criticism and philosophy that carries a wide range of meanings, including imitatio, imitation, similarity, receptivity, representation, mimicry, the act of expression, the act of resembling, and the presentation of the self.

depiction of girls and women as sexual objects for the pleasure of a male, heterosexual viewer

academic discipline studying film's relationship to reality, the arts, viewers & society

narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised

Diegesis (; , ) is a style of fiction storytelling in which a participating narrator offers an on-site, often interior, view of the scene to the reader, viewer, or listener by subjectively describing the actions and, in some cases, thoughts, of one or more characters. Diegetic events are those experienced by both the characters within a piece and the audience, while non-diegetic elements of a story make up the "fourth wall" separating the characters from the audience. Diegesis in music describes a character's ability to hear the music presented for the audience, in the context of musical theat

An (; , ) is an artist with a distinctive approach, usually a film director whose filmmaking control is so unbounded and personal that the director is likened to the "author" of the film, thus manifesting the director's unique style or thematic focus. As an unnamed value, auteurism originated in French film criticism of the late 1940s, and derives from the critical approach of André Bazin and Alexandre Astruc, whereas American critic Andrew Sarris in 1962 called it auteur theory.

movement in queer-themed independent filmmaking

Israeli artist, painter, photographer, theorist and psychoanalyst (born 1948)

film genre

performing arts concept

film and film industries of both English-Speaking and the Non-English-Speaking world apart from the Hollywood Studio System

sex in mainstream film

In psychology and psychiatry, scopophilia or scoptophilia ( , "look to", "to examine" + , "the tendency towards") is an aesthetic pleasure drawn from looking at an object or a person. In human sexuality, the term scoptophilia describes the sexual pleasure that a person derives from looking at prurient objects of eroticism, such as pornography, the nude body, and fetishes, as a substitute for actual participation in a sexual relationship.

a theory of film that developed in Soviet Russia

essay, lecture or criticism from a particular point of view in a video/film/tv format

aesthetic approaches to the most basic philosophical questions regarding film

film genre

feminist film theoretical term

term used in film theory and criticism to describe films associated with a nation-state

visual representation of music in film or other art forms

artistic and philosophical movement

sign study in film

formerly popular theory in cinema studies

Emphasis on style & form over content, or possible meanings of films

aesthetic of film that does not relate events or temporal relationships