Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
auteurist | a film director whose practice accords with the auteur theory. |
biopic | a film telling the life-story of a celebrity. |
bioscope | a form of cinematograph. |
blaxploitation | exploitation of black people, esp in the American film industry, by casting them in negative, stereotypical roles. |
chiller | a frightening film. |
chopsocky | a genre of martial arts films. |
cine | a motion picture. |
cineast | (Fr.) one who takes an artistic interest in motion pictures. |
cineaste | (Fr.) one who takes artistic interest in motion pictures. |
cinemagoer | one who attends the cinema. |
cinematic | relating to the cinema. |
cinematically | (Adv.) CINEMATIC, related to the cinema. |
cinematise | to produce for the cinema. |
cinematize | to produce for the cinema. |
cinematograph | a motion-picture camera, projector, theater, or show; (verb) to record by cinematograph. |
cinematographer | a specialist in cinematography. |
cinematographic | relating to cinematography. |
cinematography | the art or science of motion-picture photography. |
cinephile | a lover of the cinema. |
cineplex | (Tradename) a number of cinemas on one site. |
cineramic | relating to Cinerama®, a method of film projection used in the cinema. |
clapperboard | a hinged board (or a set of hinged boards) clapped together in front of the camera before or after shooting a piece of film, to help synchronize sound and vision. |
deepie | (Coll.) a three-dimensional cinematograph film. |
docudrama | a play or film representing real events. |
featurette | a brief feature, esp a short documentary film dealing with an aspect of the making of a feature film and included on a DVD of the feature film. |
film | a thin coating; (verb) to make a motion picture > FILMINGS |
filmable | that can be filmed. |
filmdom | the cinema industry. |
filmer | one who films. |
filmgoing | the practice of going to films. |
filmic | pertaining to the cinema. |
filmically | (Adv.) FILMIC, pertaining to the cinema. |
filmish | having a flavour of the cinema. |
filmland | the cinema industry. |
filmmaking | the making of films. |
filmography | a list of the films of a particular actor or director. |
flashback | in a film, novel, etc, a scene of the past, inserted as comment or explanation; (verb) to show a flashback. |
fleapit | (Sl.) a low-class cinema. |
foley | the technique of adding sound effects to a cinema film after it has been shot. |
footage | an amount of TV or camera film. |
gargantua | a monster in a Japanese film. |
gorefest | a movie featuring much bloodshed. |
gorehound | an enthusiast of gory horror films. |
grindhouse | a type of cinema that deals with sleazy dancing. |
grosser | a film etc. that brings in a (big etc.) sum of money. |
intercut | to insert a scene or shot into (an existing scene); to alternate (shots from different scenes). |
keyframe | the frozen image in an animation sequence. |
kidult | (Sl.) a film or video for an adult or child audience. |
kidvid | a television or video entertainment for children. |
kinema | cinema. |
kinematic | relating to the kinema. |
kinematical | relating to the kinema. |
kinematically | (Adv.) KINEMATICAL, relating to the kinema. |
kinematograph | an apparatus for filming, printing and projecting a series of instantaneous photographs so as to give a moving representation of a scene. |
kinematographer | one who operates a kinematograph. |
kinematography | the art of the kinematograph. |
kinescope | (Tradename) a cathode ray tube for a television; a motion picture made from an image on this; (verb) to make a kinescope. |
kinetograph | an early form of cinematograph camera. |
klieg | a kind of electric lamp used in filming. |
lens | a piece of transparent matter with one or both surfaces curved to cause regular convergence or divergence of rays passing through it; (verb) to make a film of. |
maltese | as in maltese cross, a mechanism providing intermittent frame-by-frame movement in a motion picture film projector. |
movie | a motion picture. |
moviedom | the world of the movies. |
moviegoing | attendance at the movies. |
moviemaker | one who makes movies. |
moviemaking | the act of making movies. |
mutoscope | an early form of cinematograph. |
nickelodeon | an early form of cinema. |
nudie | (Sl.) a film featuring nudity. |
oater | a Wild West film, a horse-opera. |
offscreen | in a film, not actually shown on the screen. |
outtake | a film scene dropped in final version; (verb, obs.) to take out, to except. |
phenakistoscope | an early form of cinematograph. |
photoplay | a motion picture. |
picturegoer | one who goes to the cinema. |
pixilation | a technique for making human figures and animals appear to be animated eg by the use of stop-frame methods. |
pixillation | a technique for making human figures and animals appear to be animated artificially, eg by the use of stop-frame camera techniques. |
policier | a film featuring police investigating crimes. |
pornification | the introduction of pornographic elements into a film etc. |
postsync | (Short for) postsynchronize, to add a soundtrack to a film after recording. |
precensor | to censor a publication or film before its release. |
refilm | to film again. |
screenland | the cinema. |
sepmag | of a film, having sound recorded on a separate magnetic tape. |
silent | without sound (noun) a silent film |
silently | (Adv.) SILENT, without sound. |
skinflick | a pornographic movie. |
slashfest | a film or computer game that involves bloody slayings involving blades. |
slomo | a slow-motion film. |
soundman | a member of a film crew whose job it is to record sound. |
soundstage | the soundproof area of a motion picture studio. |
stardom | the status of a preeminent performer. |
suspenser | something, eg a film or book, that is filled with suspense. |
synthespian | a computer-generated image of a film actor used in place of the actor when filming stunts. |
talkie | a talking film. |
tentpole | a big budget movie whose high earnings are intended to offset the cost of less profitable ones. |
uncinematic | not related to the cinema. |
verite | (Fr.) reality, truth, as in cinema verite. |
videogram | a commercial video film. |
weepie | a sentimental film or book. |
weepily | (Adv.) WEEPY, given to tears. |
weepy | given to tears (noun) a sentimental film or book |
zoechrome | an early colour cinematographic process, aka zoetrope. |