falling action

(literature, drama) The events of a drama after the climax (or crisis) but before the denouement (or resolution).


AJA

(television) Initialism of Al Jazeera Arabic.


crossfade

(film, television) A fade in which the picture of one video track is diminished as that of another is brightened.


crossfade

en-verb

crossfade (third-person singular simple present crossfades, present participle crossfading, simple past and past participle crossfaded)

crossfades (present singular third-person)
crossfading (participle present)
crossfaded (participle past)
crossfaded (past)

(film, television, transitive, intransitive) To diminish the picture of one video track while raising that of another, so that they blend together.


very high frequency

(broadcasting, radio, television) The frequency area from 30 MHz through 300 MHz, commonly used for radio and TV broadcasting.


sporadic E

(radio) A meteorological phenomenon where radio waves above a certain frequency are reflected in the atmospheric E region, allowing these radio waves to be received in distances up to 1,200 miles.


imouto

::laughs:: it's ok. Josh only tolerates it becuase ^([sic]) I'm his imouto and am only joking.

1999 January 10, Animeg3282, “Recent flow of posters from AFSM to AGFF and vice versa...”, in alt.games.final-fantasy (Usenet):

The mirror was going to take you, just like it - like it almost took Mom, and Dad, and imouto. I couldn't let it take you... I love you, onee-san. Please, can you ever forgive me?

1999 July 13, Vctr113062, “[TK3 fanfic] "Phoenix" Ch. 19, 2/4”, in alt.games.video.sony-playstation (Usenet):

Second, why do all the girls correspond so well to accepted anime character archetypes? (We have at the least, Triela the tsundere, Claes the incho, Rico the bokke, Angelica as the sick girl, and Henrietta the imouto.)

2007 February 1, Abraham Evangelista, “10 Year Retrospective - My Least Favorites”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

I have to say I didn't have trouble with the cannon fodder, although the imouto is *extremely* annoying and needs a good spanking. She's too old to be acting like a brat.

2011 January 30, Captain Nerd, “Jan '11 New Anime series - my thoughts thru 3 eps”, in rec.arts.anim.misc (Usenet):

I mean, an utilitarian analysis, knowing in hindsight that little imoutos are the best thing that can happen to any anime lover, would clearly have revealed that her constantly kicking my balls when we were small enough to share a bath tub was not to be mistaken for ill intent, and that her nagging about my bicycle riding style when I carried her on the back seat was just natural

2015 September 20, pataphor, “Bantu versus Baby5: A critique of utilitarianism”, in alt.angst (Usenet):


playout

en-noun

playout (countable and uncountable, plural playouts)

(broadcasting) The transmission of radio or television channels from the broadcaster into the networks that deliver them to the audience.


contrasty

en-adj

contrasty (comparative more contrasty, superlative most contrasty)

more contrasty (comparative)
most contrasty (superlative)

The WFM display above shows a very contrasty picture with clipped whites and blacks.

2004, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 25:

(photography, television) Having great contrast between light and dark areas (of a subject or photograph).


nonnetwork

(chiefly television) Not of or pertaining to a network.


Steadicam

Steadicam, a revolutionary camera stabilizing device, was not shown, but CP did screen a sample film shot with a Steadicam.

1975, Filmmakers Newsletter, volume 9, page 46:

Tilman Büttner, the director of photography who operated the steadicam used to shoot the film, has turned the camera into one of its main characters, a contemporary film maker trapped in a journey through Russian history, with Mr Sokurov himself speaking its part.

2002 September 19, The Economist, volume 364, page 82:

(film) A stabilizing camera mount for hand-held film or video shooting; a camera mounted thus.


QSL card

(radio) A postcard confirming a successful reception of a radio signal on amateur radio, usually sent via the QSL bureau.


intermediate frequency

en-noun

intermediate frequency (plural intermediate frequencies)

(radio) A frequency to which a carrier frequency is shifted as an intermediate step in transmission or reception; generally associated with superheterodyne receivers.


jump cut

Jump cuts used to be considered unacceptable mistakes. Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960) was the first time jumpcutting was used extensively in a narrative film.

2002, Michael Wohl, Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro, Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 57:

(film) A cinematographic edit in which a single continuous sequential shot of a subject is broken into two parts, with a piece of footage being removed in order to render the effect of jumping forward in time.

coupe sèche

A cinematographic edit in which the view of a subject jumps forward in time


test card

In 1967, the BBC needed a ‘test card’ for its new colour broadcasts, to be put on the screen when programmes were not being transmitted so engineers could adjust the quality of the picture.

2013, Chris McManus, Right Hand, Left Hand, Hachette, →ISBN:

(UK, television) A test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no programme is being broadcast (often at startup and closedown).


chromakey

chromakey (countable and uncountable, plural chromakeys)

(television, film) The use of a particular color, usually either green or blue) as a key in a studio in order to allow one image to be seamlessly partially superimposed upon another.

croma

use of a color as key in a studio to allow an image to be partially replaced by other one


producorial

en-adj

producorial (comparative more producorial, superlative most producorial)

more producorial (comparative)
most producorial (superlative)

/ˌpɹɒd(j)ʊˈsɔːɹɪəl/

* from producer, after directorial from director

"We don't plan to act in it," Mr. Affleck says. "Our role is producorial."
Producorial?
"It's like professorial except it requires no accreditation, no intelligence and no actual expertise, which is why we qualify."

2000 September 10, Franz Lidz, “Ben Affleck Shocker: I Bargained With Devil for Fame”, in New York Times:

I have partners that I've worked with for over 30 years that sort of deal with all the more producorial roles in the film.

2007 April 12, Ivan Reitman, “interview with Ryan Parsons”, in CanMag, archived from the original on 2010-02-13:

(film) Of or pertaining to a producer; concerned with production (of a film)


produceorial

produceorial (comparative more produceorial, superlative most produceorial)

more produceorial (comparative)
most produceorial (superlative)

I'm always just trying to get direct access to an audience, without having to go through the media hoops, or even theproduceorial hoops

2003, Kathleen Gallagher, “A dialogue with Ann-Marie MacDonald”, in How theatre educates: convergences and counterpoints with artists, scholars and advocates, University of Toronto Press, page 251:

(film, theater) Of or pertaining to a producer; concerned with production


multireel

Since then she has created a variety of multireel stories she calls Vladmasters, which she sells and presents in public performances.

2007 May 13, Rob Walker, “Toy Story”, in New York Times:


TNG

Star Trek: The Next Generation
w:Star Trek: The Next Generation

(television) Initialism of Star Trek: The Next Generation.


roughie

Wishman's film is typically classified as a roughie within sexploitation cinema.

2021, Rashna Wadia Richards, Cinematic TV: Serial Drama Goes to the Movies, page 97:

(film, slang) A film portraying rough sex.


single-sideband modulation

en-noun

single-sideband modulation (countable and uncountable, plural single-sideband modulations)

amplitude modulation
amplitude modulation

(radio) A modification of amplitude modulation that modulates the output signal on a single sideband only, as opposed to both sidebands.


effective radiated power

effective radiated power (countable and uncountable, plural effective radiated powers)

(radio) the energy of a radio frequency, determined by multiplying the transmitter power output with the antenna gain.


height above average terrain

height above average terrain (plural heights above average terrain)

(radio) The height of a radio transmitter, including the antenna, as compared to the average terrain height in the surrounding area between three and sixteen kilometers from the antenna site.


co-channel interference

co-channel interference (plural co-channel interferences)

(radio) interference caused by two stations transmitting on the same frequency


preroll

preroll (countable and uncountable, plural prerolls)

(film, uncountable) A period of time during which the camera rolls but before the action begins.


lead-out

The lead - in rating is expected to be the greatest single predictor of a syndicated television program , with the leadout second

1992, Roger Alan Cooper, Syndication and the Structural Determinants of Television:

(broadcasting) A program scheduled to follow another.


hblank

(television, computing) Abbreviation of horizontal blanking.


vblank

(television, computing) Abbreviation of vertical blanking.


genre fiction

genre fiction (usually uncountable, plural genre fictions)

Genre fiction encourages a focus on one aspect at the expense of others. This can produce an obsessive, powerful work. But a literary novel has, somewhere, to open out into the universal.

2014 April 22, Anita Mason, “Genre fiction radiates from a literary centre”, in The Guardian:

(authorship) Fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre (such as mystery, romance, or horror) with an existing audience.


hard news

Under Editor Murray J. Gart, 56, former chief of the Time-Life News Service, the Star stressed hard news and straightforward reporting over fancy writing and instant analysis.

1981 August 3, Janice Castro, David S. Jackson, “Press: Washington Loses a Newspaper”, in Time, archived from the original on 2010-11-16:

Even in the late 70's […] women's news was regarded as, by definition, soft news. Today, issues like sexual harassment and the difficulties of single parents are understood to be, in every sense, hard news.

1993 October 24, “News About The Magazine”, in New York Times, retrieved 2010-12-06:

Ed Bradley, who died yesterday of leukemia at age 65, […] covered hard news and soft features with equal commitment, grace and skill, and many of his stories and interviews were impossible to forget.

2006 November 10, David Bianculli, “Ed Earned his ‘60 mins.’ of TV Fame”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 2010-12-06:

Because homepages reflect the values of institutions, and Facebook and Twitter reflect the interest of individual readers. These digital grazers have shown again and again that they aren't interested in hard news, but rather entertainment, self-help, awe, and outrage dressed up news.

2014 May 15, Derek Thompson, “What the Death of Homepages Means for the Future of News”, in The Atlantic:

For many young people, clicking on to Instagram to get the latest news is now as second nature as picking up a daily newspaper once was to generations before. For a site that has traditionally been a platform for sharing lifestyle content rather than hard news, this is a shift in millennials and Gen Z, at a time when news updates seem more important than ever.

2020 July 27, Katie Bishop, “Why are millennials and Gen Z turning to Instagram as a news source?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(journalism, broadcasting) Factual reportage of events which are socially or politically significant and of a serious nature, as opposed to the reporting of entertaining, humorous, or gossipy accounts of relatively inconsequential events.


Pikachu

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Pikachu.wav

(video games, anime, manga) A small yellow rodent-like Pokémon species that has red cheeks and a tail shaped like a lightning bolt, and has electricity-related powers.


postwork

principal photography
principal photography

(cinematography) Postproduction, work on filmed material after principal photography, as to improve image quality or synchronize sound.


Oscar bait

"O'Toole and Hepburn are memorable and matchless. You'll never see better performances. These are both Oscar bait outings.

1968 December 16, New York Magazine, volume 1, number 37, →ISSN, page 5:

Director Steven Soderbergh's Traffic was more typical Oscar bait, but the high-minded three-hour film about the drug trade along the US/ Mexican border was also inconsistent, and Soderbergh's fondness for mixing in grainy film stock and jerky handheld cameras didn't figure to endear him to older Academy voters.

2005, Steve Pond, The Big Show: High Times and Dirty Dealings Backstage at the Academy Awards, page 261:

(film) A film or films perceived to have been produced at least partially in order to be nominated for, and hopefully win, an Academy Award.


offcast

en-verb

offcast (third-person singular simple present offcasts, present participle offcasting, simple past and past participle offcast)

offcasts (present singular third-person)
offcasting (participle present)
offcast (participle past)
offcast (past)

From Middle English ofcasten, equivalent to off- + cast. Cognate with Danish afkaste (“to shed”), Swedish avkasta (“to crop, throw off, yield”).
The noun is possibly derived from Middle English ofcast (“the refuse of plants”).

inh

The experiment to offcast Davis began in 1937 with That Certain Woman; "She's a lady," we are told.

1985, Tino Balio, The American film industry:

[...] and Paramount was not inclined to offcast its stars, the story was dropped.

White actresses were able to maintain a more multidimensional star persona than actresses of color, thanks in large part to their ability to off-cast themselves in challenging roles and control their off-screen image through publicity.

2015, Emily Carman, Independent Stardom:

(transitive, theater, television) to remove from the cast of a production.


nondiegetic

(film music) That does not occur as part of the action, and cannot be heard by the film's characters; background.


spec script

(authorship) A screenplay for a movie that is written on spec and then shopped or sold on the open market, as opposed to one commissioned by a studio or production company.


AJE

(television) Initialism of Al Jazeera English.


AJ

en-proper noun

AJ (countable and uncountable, plural AJs)


VCC

Video Compact Cassette
w:Video Compact Cassette

(television) Initialism of Video Compact Cassette.


rule of thirds

(photography, film, visual arts) A normative rule that an image should be mentally or representationally divided in three horizontally and diagonally, and that the focus of the image should not be in the center of the resulting shape.


safe area

(television) The area of a television image that is expected to be viewable on all television screens, including old ones that typically crop the borders of the image.


roger that

Extension of roger for received in radio traffic (by 1950), the pronoun referring to the last information received; in use by 1969, popularised at first by radio transmissions from NASA's Apollo missions, later in military fiction.

1969 "Capsule Communicator: '11, this is Houston. We've completed the trunnion zero bias setting. You can retrieve the computer and go to BLOCK.' Commander (Neil A. Armstrong): 'Roger that. Thank you.' ", Apollo 11 Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription (Tape 4/5, mission time 5h 16 min), 16 July 1969.

(radio telecommunications) Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood)


bipack

(cinematography) The process of loading two reels of film into a camera, so that they both pass through the camera gate together, formerly used for visual effects and as a subtractive colour process.


bipack

en-verb

bipack (third-person singular simple present bipacks, present participle bipacking, simple past and past participle bipacked)

bipacks (present singular third-person)
bipacking (participle present)
bipacked (participle past)
bipacked (past)

(cinematography) To load two reels of film in this manner.


aftershow

(television) A talk show that discusses another television show that has already aired.


quadrature amplitude modulation

en-noun

quadrature amplitude modulation (countable and uncountable, plural quadrature amplitude modulations)

quadrature amplitude modulations (plural)

(radio) A modulation scheme that conveys data by applying amplitude modulation to two carrier waves at once. These two waves, usually sinusoids, are out of phase with each other by 90° and are thus called quadrature carriers. Commonly abbreviated QAM.


nonanimation

In “The Gap,” the show’s only nonanimation film, visitors to the annual car show at the Pasadena Art Center admire a futuristic blue Lexus designed for Steven Spielberg ’s “Minority Report.”

2007 October 5, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:


previsualization

previsualization (countable and uncountable, plural previsualizations)

What became Imageworks began at Sony Pictures in 1992 with five people using computers to help plan complicated live-action scenes — a practice that has since become known as previsualization.

2007 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, “Sony Said to Be Pondering Partial Sale of Movie Units”, in New York Times:

(film) Any technique that attempts to visualize a scene before the filming begins.


DTH

(television, Canada, US) Initialism of direct-to-home.


direct broadcast satellite

direct broadcast satellite (plural direct broadcast satellites)

(television) a television satellite that broadcasts directly to the final recipient/viewer, to a home satellite dish.


DBS

DBS (countable and uncountable, plural DBSes)

I looked at it and there is almost nothing there for me that I do not already receive with a combination of my analog $200 receiver and my $99 DBS minidish. On the contrary, there are quite a few channels that have gone digital that I receive (for a fee) thru the minidish.

1998 March 1, PELOPAS KIATOY KORINTHIAS, “Re: IPG ON 4DTV”, in alt.video.satellite.4dtv (Usenet):

direct broadcast satellite
direct broadcast satellite#English

(television) Initialism of direct broadcast satellite.


key grip

(film) The head of the grip department, involved with lighting and camera movement.


CanCon

In the early part of the Cancon era, CKLW demonstrated considerable reluctance in programming legitimately locally-made singles. Rather, the station searched out U.S. records with dubious Canadian connections (many a song written by Paul Anka, who left Canada 15 years ago, have found their way into ’LW playlists) to avoid taking a chance on unknown Canadian artists.

1973 May 19, Ritchie York, “Artist Claims CKLW’s Keen Interest Affects U.S. Hits”, in Billboard, volume 85, number 21, Los Angeles: Billboard Publications, page 58:

(informal, Canada, broadcasting) Canadian content, in the context of Canadian regulations setting minimum quotas of Canadian content for Canadian radio and television broadcasters.


cough button

So called because the radio presenter might push the button when having to cough.

Mucho pressed his cough button a moment, but only smiled. It seemed odd. How could they hear a smile?

1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, page 103:

"Al pushed his cough button, stood up, punched the guy and knocked him flat on his back," recalls Gordon. "He absolutely poled the man. Then he pushed the button again and continued on with his newscast. People watching never knew anything happened."

1987 March, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 20, number 6, page 51:

(broadcasting) A button that temporarily stops the recording and transmission of a radio show.


cue card

(film, television) A card with writing on it, shown to actors to remind them of their lines.


closedown

closedown (countable and uncountable, plural closedowns)

(radio, television) The point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission and goes off the air for a predetermined period, as used to happen overnight.

Sendeschluss

the point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission


Aristophanic

en-adj

Aristophanic (comparative more Aristophanic, superlative most Aristophanic)

more Aristophanic (comparative)
most Aristophanic (superlative)


dope sheet

From a workflow point of view, the access to these tools seems to have been guided by artists with experience with exposure sheets (a dope sheet for lip synch is included) and traditional animation.

2002 May 1, S. D. Katz, “Animation: Master 2002”, in digitalcontentproducer.com, retrieved 2011-08-07:

(idiomatic, film) A set of detailed instructions which the designer of an animated film provides to the photographers and editors.


runover

CBS ranked No. 1 on Sunday night, aided by “60 Minutes” and an 18-minute runover into the 7 o’clock hour of live basketball coverage from the afternoon.

2009 March 31, Felicia R. Lee, “Television Ratings”, in New York Times:

(television) The situation where a television programme overruns its scheduled slot.


hamfatter

US, a. 1880. Possibly from a minstrel show song called The Ham-Fat Man (1863).

(US slang, acting) A low-grade actor; a ham.


sepmag

Clipping of separate magnetic (“from the magnetic tape used for recording”).

clipping

At the appropriate distances (28, 26 and 20 frames) ahead of the JOIN PICTURE HERE line there are rows of squares, circles and triangles which indicate the correct splicing points for 16-mm sepmag, 16-mm sepopt and […]

1968, D. J. Corbett, Motion Picture and Television Film, page 64:

Sound for these two telecines is reproduced from conventional sepmag tape machines.

1970, BBC Engineering, numbers 81-88, page 13:

(television, dated) Having a separately magnetically recorded soundtrack running concurrently with the film footage.


Paganini

Hannah King stands on 'paganinis' (wooden blocks) to embrace Patrick Ryecart […]

1993, Daniel Meadows, Set pieces: being about film stills mostly, page 42:

[…] a small wedge of wood used to hold open doors and level furniture on the set. Usually carried by the stagehands, standby carpenters, etc., its use is more precise than Paganinis.

2009, Tony Bill, Movie Speak: How to Talk Like You Belong on a Film Set, page 113:

(film) One of a set of blocks for raising the height of a person or equipment.


NBTV

narrow-bandwidth television
w:narrow-bandwidth television

(television) Initialism of narrow-bandwidth television.


X-certificate

(film) Strictly reserved for adult viewing; pornographic.


test pattern

(US, television) A test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no program is being broadcast.


cowboy shot

From the framing of cinema shots in Westerns, where the holster and gun needed to be in view along with the actor's face.

In Europe, the term plán americain or plano americano refers to a shot framed from mid-leg up, basically a cowboy shot. Beyond this we are into the realm of close-ups.

2002, Blain Brown, Cinematography, page 12:

One drawback to following an actor on stairs is that you are looking at the actor's back (and worse, emphasizing his or her behind if you are climbing the stairs in a cowboy shot).

2009, Jerry Holway, Laurie Hayball, The Steadicam Operator's Handbook, page 148:

(film) A shot framed to include a region from the actor's head to mid-thigh.


public service announcement

en-noun

public service announcement (plural public service announcements)

A public service announcement followed me home the other day
 I paid it never mind, go away

2003, R.E.M. (lyrics and music), “Bad Day”, in In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003:

(broadcasting) An advertisement intended to serve the public interest by raising awareness of an issue, affecting public attitudes and potentially stimulating action.


wirework

wirework (usually uncountable, plural wireworks)

(film) The use of wires to suspend actors in otherwise impossible positions.


popcorn movie

Named after popcorn, a popular accompaniment to movies.

Ah well, it's a pure popcorn movie, so what do you expect? Drop Zone doesn't tax many brain cells, but it does keep the pulse pounding right to the end.

1994 December 9, “Review: Drop Zone Unbelievable, Unpretentious and Great Fun”, in News Tribune, retrieved 2011-10-29:

Spielberg calls Minority Report the most cynical film he will have made—but yes, it has a happy ending, he says, and yes, it's a popcorn movie, "but a gourmet popcorn movie."

1999 February 14, Stephen J. Dubner, “Steven the Good”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

As a movie, The Day After Tomorrow is your classic computer-generated cinematic confection, only the bad guy isn't an alien or a giant lizard, it's global warming. That gives Tomorrow a lot more political heft than your average popcorn movie.

2004 May 17, Lev Grossman, “Hollywood's Global Warming”, in Time, archived from the original on 2011-06-28:

(film, idiomatic) A motion picture without serious dramatic content, a weighty message, or intellectual depth, which serves simply as enjoyable entertainment.


soapland

Japanese ソープランド, equivalent to soap + land.


foreshot

It was obviously an Aspen Valley resident because she recognised the stabling in the background, but the tall dark bay horse in the foreshot didn't look familiar.

2013, Hannah Hooton, Giving Chase, →ISBN, page 122:

(photography or cinematography) The foreground of a photographic image.


backshot

If so great a commotion had been stirred up by his demand for a simple old camera backshot, there was no telling what kind of fuss would have resulted from his intention to achieve in his show the pace that distinguishes a good old-fashioned revival meeting!

1970, Albert Govoni, A Boy Named Cash, page 15:

Backshot of power station fully working.

1978, Alan Sillitoe, Three Plays, page 159:

Set in the 1930s in rural Nova Scotia, the film opens, in colour, with a backshot of the filmmaker — all that is evident are her dreads — typing its title and the details of its setting into a laptop computer.

1999, Nurjehan Aziz, Floating the Borders: New Contexts in Canadian Criticism, →ISBN, page 111:

(photography and cinematography) A shot taken from behind the subject.


p.g.a.

post-nominal letters
post-nominal letters#English

(US, film, television) The Producer's Mark (an indicator for a member of the guild); Initialism of Producers' Guild of America. (used as post-nominal letters)


respeak

en-verb

respeak (third-person singular simple present respeaks, present participle respeaking, simple past respoke or (archaic, poetic) respake, past participle respoken)

respeaks (present singular third-person)
respeaking (participle present)
respoke (past)
respake (archaic past poetic)
respoken (participle past)

(television) To repeat the words of a televised person so that they can be electronically recognised and used to generate subtitles.


skywave

(radio) An electromagnetic wave refracted back to the Earth by the ionosphere.


newhalf

Calque of Japanese ニューハーフ (nyūhāfu, “new half”). ニューハーフ is wasei eigo, from English.

calque

(anime, manga, slang) A character with a female body but only male genitals.


Q code

(radio) code used as a shorthand for common messages, consisting of sequences all beginning with Q

(radio) specific code from the aforementioned set


RST code

Standing for Readability, Strength and (for nonvoice communication) Tone.

(radio) A code used to express the quality of a radio signal being received.


QRM

(uncountable, radio jargon) electromagnetic interference


DX

(radio) Long-distance contact with or reception of a distant radio station.


DX

en-verb

DX (third-person singular simple present DXs, present participle DXing, simple past and past participle DXed)

DXs (present singular third-person)
DXing (participle present)
DXed (participle past)
DXed (past)

(radio) To receive and identify a long-distance broadcast, such as one by a distant AM, FM, or TV broadcast station.


Kubrickologist

From Kubrick + -ologist, from the surname of American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999).

Though I do not wish to get bogged down in minutiae of interest only to fanatical Kubrickologists […]

2000, Stephanie Schwam, The Making of 2001, A Space Odyssey, page 42:

(film) One who studies the works of Stanley Kubrick; one who studies Kubrickology.


Kubrickology

From Kubrick + -ology, from the surname of American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999).

Room 237, which got a boost in funding from Kickstarter and its name from the iconic mysterious room in Kubrick’s film, brings together five separate theorists to form an impressive body of work of Kubrickology […]

2012 January 30, Angela Watercutter, “Room 237 explores hidden meanings in The Shining”, in Wired, archived from the original on 2014-02-17:

Next week, Channel 4 starts a season of classic Kubrick films. It opens, on June 20, with Paul Joyce's fascinating documentary, Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man, which includes rare footage of Kubrick directing – from his daughter Vivian's The Making of The Shining – and imports a new irreverence, not to say hostility, into Kubrickology.

1996, Quentin Curtis, “Enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in an anorak ...”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 2015-10-04:

(film) The study of the works of Stanley Kubrick.


mislight

This error is obviated to a large degree when the perforated strip arrangement is used. If a machine is threaded properly and has made one correct print, it is impossible for a mislight to occur if the machine is set properly before the motor switch is snapped on,

1953, William H. Offenhauser, 16-mm Sound Motion Pictures, page 403:

Notches weaken the negative, and tabs sometimes come off, causing mislights.

1976, SMPTE Journal: Publication of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers:

(film) An error in projection in which the projected image is a combination of two frames.


death star

From death + star: star as in satellite; death as in the decimation of an industry. Influenced by the Death Star base in Star Wars media.

satellite television
satellite television

cable television
cable television#English

digital satellite television
digital satellite television#English

(slang, colloquial, Canada, US, television, dated) a direct-to-home satellite television satellite (used by the cable television provider industry, to describe their competitors and the effect they would have in decimating the cable industry, prior to the introduction of digital satellite television and the three-foot dish revolution)


telerecording

en-noun

telerecording (countable and uncountable, plural telerecordings)

(television, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A recording of a television broadcast made while it is being transmitted, especially by filming the picture from a monitor screen; the process of making such a recording.


method acting

(acting) An acting technique in which the actor fully immerses themselves into the character they are playing.


R-rated

From R + rated. The R-rating (short for restricted) is part of the rating scale used by the U.S. film rating authority Motion Picture Association (MPA) or similar rating scales used by authorities in some other countries.

(film) Of a motion picture, having an "R rating" from one more motion picture rating authorities, typically meaning it is suitable only for adults.

In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.

2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club:

(US, film) Of a motion picture, having an "R rating" from the Motion Picture Association (MPA), meaning it is suitable only for adults.


corypheus

corypheus (plural corypheuses or coryphei)

From Latin coryphaeus, from Ancient Greek κορυφαῖος (koruphaîos, “leader”), from κορυφή (koruphḗ, “head”).

uder

In this work Homer and Virgil already appear beside Cicero and Plato as doctrinal authorities. The four corypheuses are infallible; any contradiction between them is wholly out of the question.

1953, Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, page 443:

(drama, historical) The conductor or leader of the dramatic chorus in Ancient Greece.


makegood

(television, radio, advertising) A rerun of an advertisement to make up for previous cancellation or error by the broadcaster.


stasimon

From Ancient Greek στάσιμον (stásimon, “stationary”); compare stasis.

the lively measures of the Hyporcheme which holds the place of THIRD STASIMON ( V ) speak for themselves

1883, Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments:

1950, Amy Marjorie Dale, Stasimon and Hyporcheme, Eranos, XLVIII, pages 14-20, reprinted in 1969, Collected Papers of A. M. Dale, Volume 2, page 34,
In the Parados the chorus is 'coming on', and has to move on to and across the orchestra to take its place in the middle; in all the stasima, however active and lively the dance, its evolutions are performed from that middle position (a choro tenente stationes suas, as Hermann said in 1844), and do no involve processional movement.

It is interesting to consider the treatment of the stasima in relation to their context. Especially remarkable is the way in which the first stasimon (224 ff.), a hymn to Apollo praying for the success of Dolon's enterprise, is largely composed of sentiments repeated, with many verbal echoes, from the preceding dialogue[…].

1964, William Ritchie, The Authenticity of the Rhesus of Euripides, page 338:

The first stasimon sings of the wonders of man, which culminates in man's city-building and his ethical community.[…]Episodes can be interpreted in the light of the choral stasima.

2013, Jonathan N. Badger, Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy: Cities and Transcendence, page 78:

(drama, Ancient Greek drama) A song of the chorus during a tragedy, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics.


sexposition

Blend of sex + exposition, coined in 2011 by Myles McNutt to describe the numerous scenes in the fantasy TV series Game of Thrones in which characters talk while they have sex with prostitutes or watch them having sex.

There were similar grumbles about season GAME OF THRONES eps, but it always had the Dinklage turning in reportedly great performances--including a redefinition of, ahem, "SLAPschtick"--and its infamous sexposition[…]

2012, Ken from Chicago, “HBO's "Luck" has few viewers”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

(film) (The practice of providing) exposition against a backdrop of sex or nudity.


TOTP

(television) Initialism of Top of the Pops (“British TV show”).


BSkyB

British Sky Broadcasting
w:British Sky Broadcasting

(media, broadcasting, television, historical) Abbreviation of British Sky Broadcasting, a former telecommunications company.


Eastie

(UK, informal, television) EastEnders, a long-running British soap opera set in the East End of London.


blue screen

A compound of blue + screen, from the historical film-making technique of using blue backgrounds.

(film) The filmmaking technique of shooting foreground action against an evenly-lit monochromatic background for the purpose of removing the background from the scene and replacing it with a different image or scene.

(film) The visual effect resulting from this technique as well as the colored screen itself, especially blue.


B-story

In the B-story, Bart goes from metaphorically crying wolf to literally crying wolf when a timber wolf escapes from Krusty’s studio after getting freaked by loud noises. The wild beast ultimately menaces Bart in his schoolroom before Groundskeeper Willie strips down and saves the day by defeating the wolf in combat.

2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

(authorship) A subplot that appears in a screenplay or script for a movie or television show; a subplot that concerns the side-characters or less important aspects of a television show.


plasmatic

From Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “anything formed or molded”) (genitive πλάσματος (plásmatos)) + -ic.

This dual function should be no surprise, for, as Eisenstein argues of animated films featuring plasmatic metamorphosis It's natural to expect that such a strong tendency of the trransformation of stable forms into forms of mobility could not be confined solely to means of form: this tendency exceeds the boundaries of form and extends to subject and theme.

2015, Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, Art Simon, American Film History: Selected Readings, 1960 to the Present, page 364:

From these points, we can construct a model for analysing how animation's 'plasmatic' capacity to shape and mould both existing and future (better or darker) worlds might be applied across deep ecological, posthuman and social-ecological perspectives:

2015, John Parham, Green Media and Popular Culture: An Introduction:

Plasmatic characters are most radically in evidence in the early cartoon shorts of Disney, but even in the relatively realist feature films, plasmatic moments and characters still occur, and may be significant when they do.

2017, Kevin J. Donnelly, Contemporary Musical Film:

The first of these is plasmatic in an obvious way; it suggests a delight in the impossible power of an ocean wave becoming something else.

2019, Ryan Pierson, Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics, page 35:

(film, more specifically) Involving the transformation from one form to another; metamorphic.


dish antenna

en-noun

dish antenna (plural dish antennae or dish antennas)

dish antennae (plural)
dish antennas (plural)


horn antenna

horn antenna (plural horn antennae or horn antennas)

horn antennae (plural)
horn antennas (plural)

(radio) A microwave antenna consisting of an open waveguide of increasing size towards the aperture


news crawl

news crawl (usually uncountable, plural news crawls)

(broadcasting) A line of text of latest news that moves across the lower part of a television screen.


bandspread

(radio) A form of tuning control (especially on old shortwave radios) that spread all the stations of a particular band over the full extent of the dial.


maximum usable frequency

maximum usable frequency (plural maximum usable frequencies)

(radio) The highest frequency that allows radio waves to be reflected off the ionosphere.


above the line

(film) Who guide and influence the creative direction, process, and voice of a given narrative in a film, such as the screenwriter, producer, director, and actors.

(television) Of expenses: paid per project to creative personnel such as writers and actors.


tracking shot

A long, late-night tracking shot from one end of the Neon Boot bar to another actually tracks along the surface of the bar itself—and when there is a drunk passed out on the bar, the camera simply lifts up and flies over him, then continues on its route.

1984 October 12, Janet Maslin, “Blood Simple, A black-comic romp”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-07-09:

In a long tracking shot at the start of the film, a feral cat prowls this wasteland until it is felled by a slow-motion arrow.

2010 January 25, Richard Corliss, “American Savior: Denzel Washington in Book of Eli”, in Time:

The lead-up to the battle was wonderfully done, starting with the long tracking shot that followed Sam and then Tyrion as they nervously took up their places for the fight.

2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-05-31:

(cinematography, film) A continuously recorded segment containing no edits, in which the camera is moved (often mounted on a dolly rolling on tracks) so as to sweep through an extensive area or to follow the physical movement of characters or events.

pla seqüència

a continuously recorded segment containing no edits


two-hander

In May 2011, Chéreau came to the Young Vic theatre in London to direct I Am the Wind, a 70-minute two-hander written by the Norwegian Jon Fosse, which Michael Billington in the Guardian found "hypnotic", admiring the production's "visual bravura".

2013 October 8, Ronald Bergan, “Patrice Chéreau obituary”, in The Guardian:

With a screenplay by Carax and Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks (who also wrote the music and lyrics), the film is largely a two-hander about a famous couple and their talented daughter — the title character.

(theater, film) A play, film, or television programme with only two main characters.


gobo

Uncertain; possibly from go-b(etween) (“intermediary, middleman”) + -o (suffix forming informal terms).

suffix

At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.

1999, Des Lyver, Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Lighting, page 103:

(film, photography, television) A screen (often in disc form) placed between a light and an illuminated actor or object in order to diffuse the glare.

filtro

screen placed between a light and an illuminated actor or object in order to diffuse the glare


antifilm

(film) A film that deliberately avoids or subverts the usual characteristics of films.

antyfilm

a film that deliberately avoids or subverts the usual characteristics of films


underscan

(television) The situation where a video image does not fill the entire screen but is surrounded by a border (originally caused by manufacturing variations).


zoo format

(radio) A radio programme format with several presenters chatting informally among themselves.


high frequency

en-noun

high frequency (countable and uncountable, plural high frequencies)

(radio) The frequency area from 3 MHz through 30 MHz, commonly used for radio broadcasting.


timebase

(television, electronics) A time period used as a base measurement or frequency.


dog

dog (countable and uncountable, plural dogs)

Australian Kriol: dog

Bislama: dog

Gullah: dog

Sranan Tongo: dagu

Tok Pisin: dok

Torres Strait Creole: dog

desc

→ American Sign Language: Kop@Inside-PalmForward 1o@Inside

→ Dutch: dog

→ Esperanto: dogo

Ido: dogo

→ French: dogue

→ German: Dogge

→ Italian: dogo

→ English: dogo

→ Portuguese: dogue

→ Russian: дог (dog)

→ Spanish: dogo

→ Volapük: dog, doeg

Inherited from Middle English dogge (akin to Scots dug), from Old English dogga, docga, of uncertain origin.
The original meaning seems to have been a common dog, as opposed to a well-bred one, or something like 'cur', and perhaps later came to be used for stocky dogs. Possibly a pet-form diminutive with suffix -ga (compare frocga (“frog”), *picga (“pig”)), appended to a base *dog-, *doc- of unclear origin and meaning. One possibility is Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”) (compare frocga from frox). Another proposal is that it derives from Proto-West Germanic *dugan (“to be suitable”), the origin of Old English dugan (“to be good, worthy, useful”), English dow, Dutch deugen, German taugen. The theory goes that it could have been an epithet for dogs, commonly used by children, meaning "good/useful animal". Another is that it is related to *docce (“stock, muscle”), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā (“round mass, ball, muscle, doll”), whence English dock (“stumpy tail”).
In 14th-century England, hound (from Old English hund) was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog. By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting. In the 16th century, the word dog was adopted by several continental European languages as their word for mastiff.
Despite similarities in forms and meaning, not related to Mbabaram dog.

hond

morally reprehensible person — see also scoundrel

it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Blue was released, and as Redford had predicted, it was a dog.

1969, Ski, volume 34, number 4, page 121:

"When The Alamo was coming out, the word of mouth on it was that it was a dog," Chase said.

2012, Ronald L. Davis, Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne:

(informal) Something that performs poorly.

(film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.


base station

Coordinate term: mobile station

(radio) A radio transceiver permanently or semipermanently installed in a fixed location on land, typically used to communicate with mobile stations and/or other base stations


FRS

Family Radio Service
w:Family Radio Service

(radio) Initialism of Family Radio Service.


slasher movie

Two girls, watching a slasher movie about a psycho in an Edvard Munch Scream mask who calls girls at home and then stabs them to death, get a call from a psycho who shows up in a Scream mask and stabs them to death.

2011 April 15, Richard Corliss, “Movies: Scream 4 — The Ultimate Shriekquel”, in Time:

(film) A horror movie which depicts gory, murderous violence, often including scenes of torture.


irising

Irising is frequently used instead of the fade to indicate the completion of a scene sequence and the beginning of a new series of scenes.

1920, Frances Taylor Patterson, chapter 4, in Cinema Craftsmanship: A Book for Photoplaywrights, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, page 120:

Throughout the film [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari] circular patterns are symbolic of chaos. Where irising began and ended a happy carnival sequence, an underlying feeling of chaos was created.

1976, Allan Casebier, Film Appreciation, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 1, p. 22:

The screen is black at first, till a brightly lit hole opens in it and an all-black silhouette stands at what we see, in a moment, is a doorway. This is the wide-screen equivalent of irising in Ford’s silent films.

1998, Garry Wills, chapter 20, in John Wayne’s America, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 254:


tentpole movie

An allusion to the manner in which a supporting tentpole holds up the structure of a tent.

United Artists hasn't prospered in recent years, so a box office hit from its tentpole movie franchise is essential.

1995 August 11, Steve Persall, “Critic's Notebook: Previews whet our cinematic appetites”, in St. Petersburg Times, page 6:

Just coincidentally, it also provides the opportunity for the sorts of extravagant computerized effects that create tentpole movie attractions these days.

2005 December 3, Todd McCarthy, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, in Variety, retrieved 2012-09-28:

The tentpole movie is an attraction popular and exploitable enough to prop up the entire moviegoing tent for several weeks or even months.

2007 May 25, “The 1997 Summer Movie Review”, in Washington Times, retrieved 2012-09-28:

“We've never seen a high-profile film—a film of this budget, a tentpole movie with this box office potential—leak in any form this early,” he said.

2009 April 1, Brian Stelter, “Piracy Puts Film Online One Month Before Open”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-09-28:

Variety is reporting that del Toro will direct the flick with Watson cast as its titular Beauty. . . . So we’re thinking big tentpole movie versus introverted indie.

2012 February 14, “Guillermo del Toro to direct Emma Watson in “Beauty and the Beast””, in IFC, retrieved 2012-09-28:

(US, idiomatic, film) A major motion picture which is expensive to produce but expected to generate significant revenue for its studio and investors.


sight gag

Dragged suddenly before a formal dinner honoring the women's dean of Toledo University, he wowed his audience with a sight gag—he kissed the guest of honor.

1947 October 31, Gene Handsaker, “Hollywood Sights and Sounds: Bob Hope”, in Prescott Evening Courier, retrieved 2012-10-01, page 2:

In the good old ricky-tick days when movie directors wore riding breeches, a favorite cinematic sight gag was to reverse the film, which suddenly sent the actors waddling backwards through doors that closed behind them, putting their hats on instead of taking them off, and shoveling food out of their mouths instead of in.

1969 June 28, “Cinema: Happy End”, in Time:

In the opening sight gag, a guy in leisure wear shows up at his office only to find everyone in S&M clothes.

2005 March 10, Virginia Heffernan, “TV Review: The Hollow Men—Four Well-Groomed Britons, Trying Hard to Be Naughty Boys”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-01:

As he uttered these words, a PowerPoint image of Dr. Möller's face morphed into that of a smiling Pope Benedict. The sight gag had the psychiatrists roaring.

2008 October, Paul Scott, “Was the Prozac revolution all in our heads?”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 146:

(film, television, stage performance) A visually presented action or device which causes a humorous response without requiring any accompanying commentary or other speech.


flash cut

Peter Weir's The Cars That Ate Paris (1974), for example, begins with two brothers driving through the small town of Paris, Australia, only to suddenly encounter — via flash cut — a blinding white light in the road.

2004, David Scott Diffrient, “A Film is Being Beaten: Notes on the Shock Cut and the Material Violence of Horror”, in Horror Film, →ISBN, page 231:

Essential in music videos and common in flashbacks and dream sequences, the flash cut flickers many images across the screen over a period of a second or two. The effect passes quickly, but creates a visually intense moment.

2006, Chris Kenworthy, Digital Video Production Cookbook, →ISBN, page 79:

There is a flash cut, and suddenly he is in alien gear instead, inside the alien Sarcophagus. This is a visual attempt on the part of the production team to suggest that the energy wraith from a distant world is re-shaping existence and reality on the Liberator.

2006, John Kenneth Muir, A History and Critical Analysis of Blake's 7, the 1978-1981 British Television Space Adventure, →ISBN, page 121:

(cinematography) An fast cut, often as short as one frame, used to create a subliminal effect on the viewer.


roger beep

(radio) A tone or tones added to the end of a radio transmission to indicate that the operator has concluded speaking. It is usually added automatically by a power mic or transceiver.


base radio

(radio) A wireless communications station installed at a fixed location and used to communicate as part of a two-way radio system or wireless telephone system.


handy talkie

(radio) a hand-held portable transceiver


citizens' band radio

en-noun

citizens' band radio (countable and uncountable, plural citizens' band radios)

(radio) A publicly available system of short-distance radio communications, usable by individuals or businesses without a license.

(radio) A radio transceiver capable of operating on the band designated for this system.


radiogramophone

There was a bare wooden floor, and in one corner a large radiogramophone.

1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 195:

(radio, historical) A gramophone record player that incorporates a radio receiver.


found footage

Shrewdly mixing found footage, historical record and dramatized re-creation, One Day in People's Poland is an intriguing curio.

2006 May 30, Joe Leydon, “One Day In People's Poland”, in Variety, retrieved 2012-10-16:

Austrian director Gustav Deutsch complicates this witty, deceptively simple formula with a wealth of found footage (material shot by others for other purposes) borrowed from film archives from around the world.

2009 December 1, Manohla Dargis, “Movie Review: Film ist a Girl & a Gun (2009)”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-16:

(film) Misplaced, forgotten, archived, or privately-owned motion picture recordings which document past events and which are subsequently rediscovered and made available for public viewing.

Yes, they knew it was only a movie—one that, like The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield and plenty others before it, used "found footage" to give a patina of realism to the fanciful events.

2009 October 10, Richard Corliss, “Paranormal Activity: A Horror Phenomenon”, in Time:

(film) A motion picture, or a segment of one, photographed in the style of an amateurish or unedited documentary.


guard band

(radio) An unused part of the radio spectrum between bands, for the purpose of preventing interference.


deaf aid

(television, slang) A presenter's earpiece through which they receive instructions from the studio.


SWR

standing wave ratio
standing wave ratio#English

(radio) Initialism of standing wave ratio.


antenna switch

antenna switch (plural antenna switches)

(radio) A switch allows one to select which antenna to use with a transmitter, receiver, or transceiver


driven element

(radio) An element of an antenna that receives power directly from the transmitter.


dipole antenna

dipole antenna (plural dipole antennas or dipole antennae)

dipole antennas (plural)
dipole antennae (plural)

(radio) An antenna with a single, linear element, so energized that the RF current has a node only at each end.

dipoliantenni

antenna with single, linear element, so energized that the RF current has a node only at each end


parasitic element

parasitic element (plural parasitic elements)

(radio) An antenna element that receives and re-emits energy from the driven element, which has an effect on the performance of the antenna.


Yagi-Uda antenna

Yagi-Uda antenna (plural Yagi-Uda antennas)

Named after Japanese engineers Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda.

(radio) A type of directional antenna with one driven element and one or more parasitic elements; a directional radio or TV antenna consisting of two or more dipoles in the same plane with all dipoles parallel to each other.

Hidetsugu Yagi
Shintaro Uda
Yagi-Uda antenna


autopatch

(radio) A device that allows users to make telephone calls via a repeater


feature-length

(film) Having the length of a feature film, generally in the range of about 1½ to 3 hours.


kitchen sink

The noun is derived from kitchen + sink. Sense 2.1 (“miscellaneous item or miscellany”) is probably from everything but the kitchen sink.
The adjective is derived from the noun. Sense 1 (“of or pertaining to a realist style of painting characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors of urban working-class people”) was coined by the British art critic David Sylvester (1924–2001) in a December 1954 article entitled “The Kitchen Sink”: see the quotation.
The verb is a back-formation from kitchen-sinking (noun), which is derived from the noun.

back-formation

(by extension, drama, fiction, film, television, originally derogatory) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century (especially 1950s–1960s) genre of drama, fiction, etc., in Britain depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; also, of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre.

työväestön arkielämää käsittelevä

of or pertaining to a genre of drama, fiction, etc., depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre


Oscarologist

Or maybe it was sheer irritation at the four solid months of feverish speculation from Oscarologists as to what they would do?

2013 January 11, Tom Shone, The Guardian:


NRAO

National Radio Astronomy Observatory
w:National Radio Astronomy Observatory

(astronomy, radio astronomy) Initialism of National Radio Astronomy Observatory.


Enders

(UK, informal, television) EastEnders, a long-running British soap opera set in the East End of London.


A-I

...the bishops also decided to break with the past and have the Legion recommend films in the A-I category...


A-II

For movies with a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops rating of A-II, show only pre-selected scenes.

2009, Alan J. Talley, Christian Morality and Justice Catechist Guide:

(US, film) Rated for adults and adolescents only.


A-III

...and sent the Roman epic into theaters with an A-III rating...

2001, Leonard J. Leff, Jerold L. Simmons, The Dame in the Kimono:


A-IV

...rated the film A-IV (for adults, with reservations)...

2008, Barry Keith Grant et al., American Cinema of the 1960s:


anticinema

(film) Any form of cinema that defies cinematic conventions.

anticinema

any form of cinema that defies cinematic conventions


teensploitation

From teen + -sploitation (from exploitation film). From 1980s.

We sat down to watch a teensploitation slasher flick.

With 1955's Blackboard Jungle—the first film to traffic heavily in youth rebellion and sex, the twin pillars of any teenager's existence—a brilliant, if obvious, new genre of film was born: teensploitation, movies about teenagers made for teenagers but watched by everybody.

1999 February, Bill Sienkiewicz, “Forever Young”, in SPIN, SPIN Media, page 64:

1999, Edmond Grant, The Motion Picture Guide: 1999 Annual (The Films of 1998), CineBooks, page vii,
Adrian Lyne's LOLITA was more notable for the terror it struck in controversy-shy American distributors than for its content, reducing taboo subject matter to a teensploitation film with a literary pedigree.

The influence of Rebel Without a Cause is difficult to underestimate.^([sic]) Despite what appeared to be just another entry in the burgeoning teensploitation trend, the film distinguished itself for a variety of reasons.

2005, Rob McInnes, Timothy Shary, Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen, Columbia University Press (Wallflower), page 21:

(film) A genre of exploitation films, starring teenage actors with teen-oriented plots involving drugs, sex, alcohol or crime.


sparklies

Once the C/NR of the incoming satellite signal reaches +2 or more dB above the threshold rating of the receiver, the last few stray sparklies disappear and the video appears to be totally clear.

1993, Mark Long, Jeffrey Keating, The world of satellite TV, page 179:

One of the most common troubles with a satellite home unit is sparklies, as shown in Fig. 4.8.

1999, Eugene Trundle, Newnes TV and Video Engineer's Pocket Book, page 96:

(television) A kind of interference pattern on analogue satellite television, caused by a signal that is either too weak or too strong.


top and tail

en-verb

top and tail (third-person singular simple present tops and tails or top and tails, present participle topping and tailing or top and tailing, simple past and past participle topped and tailed or top and tailed)

tops and tails (present singular third-person)
top and tails (present singular third-person)
topping and tailing (participle present)
top and tailing (participle present)
topped and tailed (participle past)
topped and tailed (past)
top and tailed (participle past)
top and tailed (past)

They are retrieved when needed, topped and tailed ready for use, and stored on the newsroom system […]

2002, Carole Fleming, The Radio Handbook, page 128:

“Roger—a lovely man, great DJ, and huge Bruce fan—got the interview for [London's] Capital Radio,” rock journalist Patrick Humphries told me. “He liked the Springsteen book I'd done so I transcribed the tape and topped and tailed it. […]

2013, Jeff Burger, Springsteen on Springsteen:

(transitive, broadcasting) To set the limits of (an audio tape recording, a digital video file, etc.) by adding physical markers or by trimming unwanted portions.


smash cut

(film, television) An abrupt cut from one scene to another without a transition.


dolly zoom

(film) A camera effect that appears to undermine normal visual perception, achieved by using the setting of a zoom lens to adjust the field of view while the camera dollies towards or away from the subject in such a way as to keep the subject the same size in the frame throughout.


spieler

From German Spieler (“player, gambler”) or from spiel.

(Canada, US, broadcasting, informal) A radio or television announcer.


splatstick

(film, comedy, horror, gore) A genre of film which blends slapstick style comedy with splatfest blood and gore splatter filled horror.


numbers station

en-noun

numbers station (plural numbers stations)

(radio, espionage) A shortwave radio station characterized by unusual broadcasts, often of artificially generated voices reciting streams of numbers, words, etc., supposedly coded messages.


dump months

From the sense that movie studios are "dumping" poor-quality and limited-appeal films during those months.

(film) The two periods of the year, often described as January and February and mid-August through September, when new movie releases are either poor-quality, cheaply made, or intended for niche audiences, since low movie attendance limits the potential box office return.


supercut

Take a few minutes and watch this very well-done supercut of (nearly) every movie that came out in 2010.

2010, All The Movies Of 2010 In One Epic Supercut (VIDEO), The Huffington Post

A supercut of all of the pie and coffee in Twin Peaks, most of it ingested by Agent Dale Cooper, obviously.

2013, Populist: Items of interest this week, The Guardian

Now, Vimeo user Alejandro Prullansky has compiled a super cut of Anderson's slo-mo shots from across the director's filmography, charmingly – and maybe a tad cheekily – set to The Shins' "New Slang."

2014, Jon Blistein, Watch a Supercut of Wes Anderson's Slow-Motion Scenes, Rolling Stone

(film) A montage of short video clips, usually from a film or TV series, illustrating a particular repeated element such as a word or phrase.


flow motion

(film) A combination of a timelapse, hyperlapse, and regular cinematographic shots.


chapter book

Such books are typically divided into short chapters, to suit limited attention spans.

(authorship) An illustrated storybook intended for intermediate readers, generally aged from 7 to 10.


magical Negro

(film, literature) A black supporting stock character in media, especially American cinema, who is portrayed as coming to the aid of a white protagonist.


DTTV

digital terrestrial television
digital terrestrial television#English

(television) Initialism of digital terrestrial television.


tear a cat

en-verb

tear a cat (third-person singular simple present tears a cat, present participle tearing a cat, simple past tore a cat, past participle torn a cat)

tears a cat (present singular third-person)
tearing a cat (participle present)
tore a cat (past)
torn a cat (participle past)

Yet my chief humour is for a tyrant. I could play / Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split.

c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 1, scene 2:

Sirha is this you would rend and teare the Cat / Upon a Stage, and now march like drown'd rat?

c. 1599, John Marston, Histriomastix, act 5, scene 1, page [53]:

Till, in his periwig combustion / Will. Shakespeare sounds like Irish fustian, / In which Macready tears a cat, / And Shiel, the patriot, writes so pat;

1835, George Daniel, “The Conversazione”, in The Modern Dunciad, William Pickering, page 224:

From this performance there is no doubt in anyone's mind that Hamlet is an amateur actor having a fling at histrionics, or as Guthrie might say, "tearing a cat."

1970, Alfred Rossi, Minneapolis Rehearsals: Tyrone Guthrie Directs Hamlet, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 21:

(obsolete, idiomatic, acting) To overact; to violently rant and rave on stage.


postvisualization

(film) Manipulation of recorded footage in order to change the way a scene is presented.


L cut

From the L shape of a piece of physical film when cut for this purpose.

Without L cuts, a conversation between two people can feel like a tennis match.

(film) An edit transition from one shot to another, where the picture and sound are synchronized but the transitions in each are not coincident.


happy ever after

en-noun

happy ever after (plural happy ever afters)

(authorship) A happy ending; a good fate, life, or ending to a story.


UHD

The company made headlines with its 85-inch TV with built-in stand, which retailed for $45,000 (it has since come down to $40,000). Smaller UHD TVs started at $5,500.

2014 October 8, Molly Wood, “Sharper Image From 4K TVs Is a Gimmick Worth Having”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Sharp also announced a full complement of 4K UHD TVs, with prices starting at just over $700.

2015 January 5, Molly Wood, “CES: A Push for Higher Resolution and Better-Looking TVs”, in New York Times Bits Blog:

(television) Initialism of ultra-high definition (“3840×2160 (4K), 7680×4320 (8K), 15360 × 8640 (16K)”).


picture-in-picture

(television) A feature of some television receivers and similar devices, where one program or channel is displayed on the full TV screen while another is displayed in an inset window.

畫中畫

simultaneous display of full TV screen and inset window


youthsploitation

From youth + -sploitation (from exploitation film).

(film) A genre of exploitation films starring young actors.


manic pixie dream girl

manic pixie dream girl (plural manic pixie dream girls)

Coined by the American film and music critic Nathan Rabin (born 1976) in a 2007 review of Elizabethtown (2005) to describe the character Claire Colburn played by Kirsten Dunst: see the quotation.

coinage

Then again, [Susan] Sarandon's character is the very embodiment of gritty neo-realism compared to Kirsten Dunst's stewardess/love interest. Dunst embodies a character type I like to call The Manic Pixie Dream Girl (see Natalie Portman in Garden State for another prime example). The Manic Pixie Dream Girl exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.

2007 January 25, Nathan Rabin, “My Year Of Flops, Case File 1: Elizabethtown: The Bataan Death March of Whimsy”, in The A.V. Club Blog, archived from the original on 2007-02-05:

[page 218] For me, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl was the story that fit. Of course, I didn't think of it in those terms; all I saw was that in the books and series I loved – mainly science fiction, comics and offbeat literature, not the mainstream films that would later make the MPDG trope famous – [...] [page 219] Most of the classic Manic Pixie Dream Girls claim to be ironic re-imaginings of a character trope that they fail to actually interrogate in any way.

2014, Laurie Penny, “Love and Lies”, in Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution, New York, N.Y., London: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, pages 218–219:

Looking for a new apartment, he cute-meets Sofia (Dolores Fonzi), a young woman with a pink bicycle helmet, yellow tights, a vaguely exotic background and all the other signs of manic-pixie-dream-girl status.

2015 May 14, A[nthony] O[liver] Scott, “Review: In ‘The Film Critic,’ a snob is tripped up by his heartstrings”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-17:

A guy who understands women based on movies or television will never have a chance at understanding a real woman, because we aren't like that. We aren't the "career-focused ice queen" or the "sweet helpless damsel in distress" or the "manic pixie dream girl" [...]. But at times, we might be some of them. Or all of them. And then we'll change again, into something much more complex. You can't pin us down.

2016 April, Bethenny Frankel, Eve Adamson, “Woman, Know Thyself”, in I Suck at Relationships So You Don’t Have To: 10 Rules for Not Screwing Up Your Happily Ever After, 1st Touchstone paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 34:

Your love for her is getting embarrassing. [...] She's gorgeous, she has buckets of charisma she couldn't hide if she tried, and she makes all the boys fall in love with her. That sounds like Manic Pixie Dreamgirl territory, my friend—which, news flash again, is a cliché.

2017 October, James Patterson, Emily Raymond, chapter 30, in Expelled, New York, N.Y.: Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN; republished as The Injustice, New York, N.Y.: Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2018, →ISBN:

But even as Gina's behavior dips past manic pixie dream girl to merely manic, the director never deviates from the detached tone of his prologue.

2017 September 17, Teo Bugbee, “Review: ‘Thirst Street’ hollows out Hollywood obsession”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-12:

A precursor to the “manic pixie dreamgirl” trope of today, the femme-enfant’s youth was to be mooned over, her naïveté aspired to, her pure countenance captured in poetry and paint.

2019 June, Pam Grossman, “The Dark Arts: Magic Makers and Craft Women”, in Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 179:

(film, sometimes derogatory) A stock female character, typically characterized as a bubbly, quirky free spirit, whose main purpose within a narrative is to teach a young male protagonist to embrace the mysteries and adventures of life.

Audrey Hepburn
Elizabethtown (film)
Kirsten Dunst
Roman Holiday


piece to camera

en-noun

piece to camera (plural pieces to camera)

(film, television) A speech given by a presenter or character directly to the viewing audience through the camera.


academy leader

(film) A style of leader (blank introductory portion of film) with numbers marked every foot, counting down from 11 to 3.


making-of

/ˈmeɪkɪŋ ˌɒv/

/ˈmeɪkɪŋ ˌʌv/

(television, film) A documentary about how a film or television show was made, with behind-the-scenes footage.

com-s'ha-fet

a video featuring behind-the-scenes footage


voicer

This is a news report from the scene of the event. When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap.

2005, Alan R. Stephenson, David E. Reese, Mary E. Beadle, Broadcast Announcing Worktext, page 164:

These reports usually come in the form of voice reports, or voicers, and voice-actuality reports.

2015, Carl Hausman, Frank Messere, Philip Benoit, Modern Radio and Audio Production: Programming and Performance:

(radio) A spoken report to be broadcast.


radio star

From radio + star; see star (“celebrity”).

(radio) A celebrity famous for appearances in radio broadcasts.


filmhood

Soon the Germans would see me on their screens and hear me barking. There was also plenty of work for me in Hollywood. The Food of the Gods was never to achieve filmhood, nor was the projected musical on Shakespeare's life called Will!

By stripping down film to the minimal conditions for filmhood, the filmmaker highlighted those conditions in ways that can lead viewers to comprehend Serene Velocity's philosophical point.

(film) The quality, state, or condition of a film, especially in reference to its cinematic completion, achievement, accomplishment, or success.


movielore

Whether you intend to captivate your friends with your cinematic erudition or baffle your acquaintances by displaying your PhD. in movielore, this is the book to buy for hours of enchanting entertainment.

Or, as the movielore surrounding a manly male like John Wayne commands, "A man's gotta do (pause) what a man's gotta do."

1994, Wayne Wilson, Sexuality in the Land of Oz:

(film) The knowledge, study, history, or culture relating to movies and filmmaking; filmlore.


nani

Nani the fuck?


airstaff

And, in general, programmers are counselling their colleagues to look beyond the usual suspects for funny additions to their airstaffs: local comedy clubs, theater groups, supermarkets, whatever!

1987 December 26, Kim Freeman, “Humor on the Airwaves: What's So Funny About Comedy Radio?”, in Billboard, page C-10:

He also credits the airstaff, which he proudly describes as among the best in the nation.

1993 August 14, Phyllis Stark, “Billboard's PD of the Week”, in Billboard, page 71:

The second most common reason for an airstaff to seek union representation is the overall treatment by the station, especially in terms of scheduling.

1996, Eric G Norberg, Radio Programming: Tactics and Strategy, page 46:

While there was a great spirit of community and cooperation between the airstaffs, the top management was willing to break wiretapping laws to get a competitive edge.

2003, Mike Olszewski, Radio Daze: Stories from the Front in Cleveland's FM Air Wars, page 64:

Seeing an opportunity in our ratings improvement, I sent Fisher and JC a memo noting that the airstaff had been having problems with two turntables for well over a week.

2007, John Gorman, The Buzzard: Inside the Glory Days of WMMS and Cleveland Rock Radio--a Memoir, page 40:

(US, broadcasting) The staff of a radio station whose voices are broadcast.


endboard

(television) The logo or image that concludes an ident sequence.


final girl

Coined by film theorist Carol J. Clover in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film.

(film) A female character in a horror or thriller film who is the last person alive to confront the killer/monster, and often the sole survivor.

Carol J. Clover
Men, Women, and Chainsaws
final girl


hixploitation

The apotheosis of the hixploitation movement was Smokey and the Bandit (1977), the directorial debut of Tennessee-born veteran stuntman Hal Needham, who actually cast Mel Tillis, Foster Brooks, and Ruth Buzzi for unironic effect.

2006, David Kamp, Lawrence Levi, The Film Snob*s Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Filmological Knowledge, Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 48:

While Black Snake Moan seems to unfold in a realm of synthetic fantasy—a hybrid of hip-hop's Dirty South, a bluesman's back roads, and the Dixie of '70s hixploitation flicks—it's actually set in a corner of Tennessee where a white girl named Rae (Ricci) holds the title of town slut.

2007 February, Troy Patterson, “Chick Flicked”, in Spin, page 92:

Historians of what Scott Von Doviak dubbed "Hick Flicks" in his 2005 book by that name, point out that a "Southern" genre of film never emerged to compete with the western as such for a national audience, though there was a rise of hixploitation films in the 1970s whose success hinged on and ultimately died with the demise of the drive-in regional theater (French, Von Doviak).

2011, Tara Powell, “'You Taste of America': Talladega Nights, Deliverance, and Southern Studies”, in Andrew B. Leiter, editor, Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 220:

(film) A genre of exploitation film that relies on the stereotypical (and often negative) depiction of rural whites of the American South and Appalachia.


Nazisploitation

You should see “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS,” the notorious sleazefest now considered a touchstone of the Nazisploitation craze of the 1970s.

2008 August 14, Nathan Lee, “Nazisploitation Making a Comeback”, in The New York Times:

As a result, Nazisploitation has ensured that Nazi evil has had an impressive staying power.

2010, Claire M. Hall, “Where Does Evil Sit in the Classroom?: Problematizing Teaching about Hitler, Nasty Nazis, and the Holocaust”, in Sara Buttsworth, Maartje M. Abbenhuis, editors, Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-war Popular Culture, Praeger, →ISBN, page 227:

In general, Nazisploitation movies encompass those that use the fascination of Nazi imagery, ideology, symbols and artifacts to increase its commercial appeal.

2012, Benedikt Eppenberger, “Eine Armee Gretchen: Nazisploitation Made in Switzerland”, in Daniel H. Magilow, Elizabeth Bridges, Kristin T. Vander Lugt, editors, Nazisploitation!: The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 155:

(film) A subgenre of exploitation film that involves villainous Nazis committing criminal acts of a sexual nature, typically against people held in their concentration camps and prisons during World War II.


nunsploitation

Making nunsploitation films also appealed to producers because, as with peplums and westerns, it was possible to recycle sets and costumes and therefore lower production costs.

2004, Tamao Nakahara, “Barred Nuns: Italian Nunsploitation Films”, in Ernest Mathijs, editor, Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 126:

Perhaps the world's first nunsploitation film, it centres on a morphine-addicted nun recovering from neurosurgery, who is accused of a series of horrific murders.

2008 July 4, “Random top tens: The least convincing nuns ever”, in The Scotsman:

In the early 1970s, the nunsploitation film emerged as a widely popular genre, energized by several key cinematic, literary, and historical catalysts: […]

2013, Ian Olney, Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 175:

(film) A genre of exploitation film focusing on Christian nuns.


Mexploitation

Remember that crazy-funny fake trailer for the nonexistent ’70s Mexploitation flick Machete that preceded the “Planet Terror” segment of Grindhouse a few years back?

2010 September 2, MaryAnn Johanson, “Class Warrior: Machete provides a slice of surprisingly effective entertainment – and political commentary”, in Monterey County Now:

The Mexploitation fall-out runs to explosives, rape, death by flame-thrower and a cavalcade of unconvincing plot turns.

2012 September 21, Tara Brady, “Savages”, in The Irish Times:

Robert Rodriguez, 45, creator of the "Mexico" trilogy and "Spy Kids" films, arguably sired the Mexploitation genre in 1992 with the campy vengeance film "El Mariachi."

2013 October 10, Ray Monell, “Robert Rodriguez corners Mexploitation film market with ‘Machete Kills’”, in New York Daily News:

(film) A genre of exploitation films produced in and/or set in Mexico, and often featuring plots dealing with crime, drugs, and sex.


Canuxploitation

Canuxploitation films form a constant undercurrent in both English Canada and Quebec, swelling at certain points to near-tidal proportions.

2002, “Introduction: What Is Canadian Cinema?”, in Eugene P. Walz, editor, Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian Films, Rodopi, →ISBN, page xvii:

As a classic example of 1970s B-grade “Canuxploitation,” Death Weekend has retrospectively developed a cult audience beyond the lackluster response it garnered upon its initial release.

2011, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study, McFarland & Company (201), page 113

How can we account for the career of quintessentially Canadian directors such as William Fruet and Paul Lynch, whose extensive filmographies include both realist classics such as Fruet's gruelling depiction of Albertan patriarchy, Wedding in White (1972), and Lynch's loser drama of an aging country-music singer on the road in small-town Ontario, The Hard Part Begins (1973), and Canuxploitation horror such as Fruet's Death Weekend (1976), Spasms (1983), Killer Party (1986), and Blue Monkey (1987), […]

2012, David Lawrence Pike, Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 185:

(film) A genre of low-budget films produced in Canada, chiefly during the 1970s and 1980s.


Ozploitation

While a number of Ozploitation films conformed to the 'trashy' aesthetics and marginal audience reception that historically characterizes exploitation cinema, a notable handful display production values considerably higher than those connoted by the term itself, and also experienced significant box office success, both in Australia and, at times, internationally.

2010, Ben Goldsmith, Geoffrey Lealand, editors, Australia and New Zealand, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 239:

While the film is rich with moments of explicit sexual threat — most notably the naked photographs and Sparks' attempted rape — the image of Jessica tied to the front of the ute remains one of the most excessive and horrific images of violence against women not only in Australian “Ozploitation” film, but in rape-revenge as a whole.

2011, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study, McFarland & Company (201), page 111

The name was originally explained on the event's website as being inspired by 1974 Ozploitation film, Stone, about motor bike gangs.

2014, Hilary Du Cros, Lee Jolliffe, The Arts and Events, Routledge, →ISBN, page 74:

(film) A genre of low-budget films produced in Australia, chiefly during the 1970s and 1980s.


whitesploitation

While the Pam Grier Collection has "Foxy Brown," "Coffy," and "Friday Foster," The Elvis Gift Set (Paramount, $59.80) offers five classic whitesploitation flicks: "Fun in Acapulco," "G. I. Blues," "Paradise, Hawaiian Style," "Blue Hawaii" and "King Creole."

You had whitesploitation films, too: Chained Heat, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and all that junk.

2003, Joe Bobb Briggs, Profoundly Disturbing: Shocking Movies that Changed History!, Universe, →ISBN, page 125:

What Ken never understood was that the only thing Harold and I really excelled at was fucking around—coming up with idiotic ideas and filthy daydreams, projects like the pornographic version of The Cat in the Hat, the whitesploitation film Kung-Fu Honky, […]

2012, Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 107:

(film) A type of film that portrays white people in a stereotypical manner, intended to appeal to lurid or lowbrow tastes.


Britsploitation

Wright, whose mock Britsploitation trailer Don't is currently playing during the intermission between Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse double-bill, manages to integrate these disparate parts into a cohesive, intelligent whole.

2007 April 18, Neil Morris, “Hot Fuzz and Fracture”, in Indy Week:

Cult Britsploitation flicks Terror and Prey were released at the fag-end of the 70s and have all the elements you’d expect for that period: lesbian butchery, sinister parties, deranged parrots, heartless aliens, curb-crawlers and lovingly inventive, drawn-out death sequences.

2009, "Tony Molester," album review, Vice, Volume 7, Number 8, August 2009, page 161

Yet, surely the audience for a Cardiff documentary would be just as interested in his Britsploitation thrillers like “Dark of the Sun” and “The Liquidator.”

2011, Joe Bendel, "Love for the cameraman, the greatest ever colour cinematographer", The Epoch Times, 19 May 2011 - 25 May 2011, P9

(film) A genre of low-budget films produced and/or set in the United Kingdom.


carsploitation

Death Race is a rehash of the 1975 carsploitation flick Death Race 2000 that predicted a new millennium in which David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone mow down old people for points.

2008 August 27, Emiliano Garcia-Sarnoff, “Total Drag (Race)”, in Santa Fe Reporter:

Cage redefines "up for anything" in this goofy carsploitation movie as a vengeful grandpa on the trail of devil-worshippers who have slaughtered his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter for sacrificial purposes.

2011 June 2, Randall King, chapter DVD, in Winnipeg Free Press:

The film hurtles toward tragic inevitability like Vanishing Point, the classic carsploitation film that Death Proof revises with the triumph of the collective.

2014, Claire Henry, Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 164–165:

(film) A genre of exploitation films focused on cars, typified by scenes of racing and crashing.


Jewsploitation

The Hebrew Hammer may very well be the first "Jewsploitation" comedy, but star Adam Goldberg promises the film avoids the truly offensive.

2002 July, Diane Vadino, “Movie News”, in Spin, page 47:

Saturday night I went to the Gershman Y to see the new "Jewsploitation" film The Hebrew Hammer, which I'm guessing is going to raise some hackles in the same way my headline did.

2003 December 10, Liz Spikol, “Hammer Time”, in Philadelphia Weekly:

The film, one of the first to emerge from the burgeoning "Jewsploitation" genre, is ripped from true-crime headlines and follows an impressionable youth (Eisenberg) from an Orthodox Brooklyn community.

2007 November 15, Gregg Goldstein, “Eisenberg, Bartha in the 'Holy' land”, in The Hollywood Reporter:

(film) A genre of exploitation films focusing on Jews and Jewish experiences.


sharksploitation

Hunky James Caan look-alike Andrés Garcia – the nominal hero who is apparently sponsored by Adidas – became a pin-up of these adventures, appearing in the sharksploitation movie Tintorera! (1977), Tonino Ricci's Cave of the Sharks and in The Bermuda Triangle (1978), with John Huston and Claudine Auger.

2011, Howard Hughes, Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult, I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, →ISBN, page 282:

After their yacht runs aground in Australian waters, four of them decide to swim for land but are soon stalked by a huge great white shark. While the story stutters and starts, sharksploitation fans will lap it up.

2011 January 21, David Edwards, “New Releases; DVDs”, in The Mirror, UK:

Spoofing the sharksploitation genre is Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws (“And for God's sake, stay out of the water!”).

2014, Gene Helfman, George H. Burgess, Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 210:

(film) A genre of exploitation films focusing on sharks and shark attacks.


drugsploitation

Meanwhile, newfangled drugsploitation flicks like Maryjane and The Hooked Generation invaded drive-ins, providing cautionary tales while the smell of those funny scented cigarettes filled the night air.

2004, Irv Slifkin, VideoHound's Groovy Movies: Far-out Films of the Psychedelic Era, Visible Ink Press, →ISBN, page 201:

Such shots are to be found throughout the genre from early 'drug hysteria' and 'drugsploitation' movies through to its most recent examples.

2006, David Boothroyd, Culture on Drugs: Narco-cultural Studies of High Modernity, Manchester University Press, →ISBN:

Fonda persuaded director Roger Corman to hire the band for his drugsploitation movie The Trip, a paean to LSD scripted by Jack Nicholson.

2006, Barney Hoskyns, Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends, Wiley, →ISBN, page 61:

(film) A genre of exploitation films which focus on the use of recreational drugs, typically featuring lurid scenes of drug-induced behaviour framed as a cautionary tale/morality play.


back porch

(television) The portion of each scan line between the end (rising edge) of the horizontal sync pulse and the start of active video, used to restore the black level reference in analog video.


front porch

(television) A brief period inserted between the end of each transmitted line of picture and the leading edge of the next line sync pulse, intended to allow voltage levels to stabilise in older televisions, preventing interference between picture lines.


TiVo

From TiVo, a specific digital video recorder introduced in 1999.

Lost, season 4, begins in early February, after one of the most thrilling season enders in a decade of television: […] Set your TiVo.

2008 January–February, Matt Bean, “Your cultural calendar: 7 things to look forward to this year”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 134:

digital video recorder
digital video recorder

(television) A digital video recorder (of any brand).


diplex

en-verb

diplex (third-person singular simple present diplexes, present participle diplexing, simple past and past participle diplexed)

diplexes (present singular third-person)
diplexing (participle present)
diplexed (participle past)
diplexed (past)

(radio) Simulcast the same signal on two frequencies.

(radio) Combine two signals using two frequencies onto one cable.


graveyard slot

From graveyard + slot, from the analogy of death to absence, see also dead air, dead silence/dead silent.

(television) A time period during which a television audience is very small compared to other times of the day.


dayparting

(television, radio) The practice of dividing the broadcast day into several dayparts.


daypart

Prime time is the daypart with the most viewers.

(television, radio) A part of the day in which a type of radio or television program apropos for that time period is aired.

műsoridő

part of the day in which a type of radio or television program is aired


daypart

daypart (third-person singular simple present dayparts, present participle dayparting, simple past and past participle dayparted)

dayparts (present singular third-person)
dayparting (participle present)
dayparted (participle past)
dayparted (past)

Much like TV and radio, programming on the Station will be dayparted. Mornings will contain more music news, afternoons will have a heavy promotional focus on Streamland's and SonicNet's Addicted to Noise Web sites, and nights will focus on live entertainment.

1998 March 14, Ed Christman, “Trans World Earnings Set Record in '97”, in Billboard, volume 110, number 11, page 111:

A lot of Top 40 stations were heavily dayparted, so softer stuff only got played in the daytime, or harder stuff only got played at night.

2005 June 2, Florence Henderson Had A Mullet [username], “Re: Billboard top 100 of 1983”, in alt.culture.us.1980s (Usenet):

(television, radio, transitive) To divide the broadcasting day of (a station) into periods airing different types of material.

Like most R&B stations, rap is dayparted after 6 p.m. but shunned between the hours of 9 p.m. and midnight, when the station runs its quiet storm show.

1994 June 25, Phyllis Stark, “Community Involvement Sends WCKX To Top”, in Billboard, volume 106, number 26, page 106:

WMGI's new format, of which I heard a mere 20 minutes last night around 8, seemed to be brighter and much more uptempo. I imagine they've got the youngest stuff (i.e., the rap) dayparted into evenings only, and are being much less adventurous mornings.

1995 January 4, Jim Grey, “Terre Haute Radio News 1-1-95”, in rec.radio.broadcasting (Usenet):

(television, radio, transitive) To assign (material) to such a period.


CTCSS

(radio) Initialism of continuous tone-coded squelch system.


warmedy

It preserves the blue-collar setting of The Flintstones, and the family constellations are similar, but the "warmedy" Flintstone world is turned on its ear.

2004, John Alberti, Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture, →ISBN, page 144:

Another popular “warmedy” (warm family comedy) of the late 1980s was Family Ties, which starred Michael J. Fox as the eldest sibling in a close-knit family.

2005, James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore, →ISBN, page 220:

The "capitalization, dematerialization, and idealization" of this "warmedy" (an awkward term used by Budd, Steinman, and other critics to denote a "comedy overlaid with empathetic audience identification") extended even to the lives and celebrity status of the actors who played the show's universally loathed or much-loved characters...

2008, David Scott Diffrient, M*A*S*H, →ISBN, page 3:

(television) A warm-hearted comedy targeted at a family audience.


exodos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos, “a departure”). Doublet of exodus.

bor

1994, Carlo Ferdinando Russo (author and translator), Aristophanes: An Author for the Stage, [1962, Aristofane autore di teatro], page 173,
The exodos requires three actors, one for the Athenian (thirty iambic trimeters), one for his companion (five iambic trimeters) and one for the Spartan Singer (three iambic trimeters and around forty lyrical lines).

Then scenes alternate with choral songs, till the final exodos ("going-out") of the actors and chorus.

2003, Francis Blessington, The Bacchae; Euripides: The Frogs; Aristophanes, page xix:

Every Greek drama ends with an exodos. It is obligatory that the stage be left empty. It is left by the actors and the chorus.

2006, Olga Freidenberg, Image and Concept, page 271:

Non-speaking Characters
Hermione in prologue and exodos, Pylades in exodos, Electra in exodos, Helen in exodos

2013, Cecelia Eaton Luschnig, editor, The Orestes Plays, page 140:

In this respect, the parodoi and the exodoi of Old Comedy may operate as typical literary sphragis-like pieces; see details in Hordern (2002) 228-9; Calame (2004a); on the exodoi of Aristophanes as signature pieces see Calame (2004b) 182-3.

2013, Sophia Papaioannou, “Chapter One: The Innovator's Poetic Self-Representation”, in Sophia Papaioannou, editor, Terence and Interpretation, footnote, page 27:

(drama, Ancient Greek drama) A final scene or departure in a play, especially a tragedy.


groundwave

(radio) A signal that propagates along the surface of the Earth.

fala przyziemna

signal propagating along the earth surface


lay tracks

en-verb

lay tracks (third-person singular simple present lays tracks, present participle laying tracks, simple past and past participle laid tracks)

lays tracks (present singular third-person)
laying tracks (participle present)
laid tracks (participle past)
laid tracks (past)

There is plenty of scope for skill in laying tracks so that the mixing is easy.

1947, Ken Cameron, Sound and the Documentary Film, page 82:

In terms of economic utility, it ranks right up there with ultrafast lenses, since laying tracks is the second most time-consuming activity in film production (and the Steadicam eliminates the need for them).

2013, James Monaco, How To Read a Film: Technology: Image & Sound:

(film) To arrange soundtracks in their correct sequence and position relative to the image.


school life

(anime, manga) A genre which has the majority of the storyline taking place in a school.


shounen ai

(slang, anime, manga) A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more males.


shotacon

en-noun

shotacon (usually uncountable, plural shotacons)

From Japanese ショタコン (shotakon). By surface analysis, shota + -con (“abnormal sexual attraction”).

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The term shota-con is a variant of the term loli-con for "Lolita complex" comics, a genre of porn comics for men featuring young girls. Shota is a common Japanese boy's name, thus shota-con indicates porn comics featuring young boys.

2004 Deborah Shamoon, "Porn Studies", page 101

Lolicon or Lolicom is a contraction of "Lolita Complex," an unhealthy interest in underage girls exemplified by the Lolita Anime. Its rarer male variant is Shotacon.
Shotacon is a contraction of “Shotaro Complex,” or an unhealthy obsession with little boys. It is said to derive from the boyish good looks of Shotaro Kaneda, the protagonist of GIGANTOR

2006 Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 page 31

(uncountable, anime) A sexual complex where an adult is attracted to young, typically prepubescent boys, or the fictional depictions thereof.

(countable, anime) An individual with such a fixation.

(uncountable, anime) Erotic or suggestive art, manga, anime, or other media featuring underage boy characters.


shoujo ai

Two connected etymologies. Either interpreted as a loan translation of Japanese 少女愛 (shōjo ai), or a specialized neologism created in analogy to shounen ai (少年愛; shōnen ai) using Japanese vocabulary.

(neologism, anime, manga) Anime and manga that explore emotional, but largely platonic, homoerotic relationships between women.


Apatovian

Apatow + -ian, with 'w' hardened to 'v'; compare Shavian.

Segel, who may not have a third or fourth gear, plays Peter Bretter, a recognizable Apatovian hero: he thinks obsessively about sex, and at the same time he's an instinctively moral man.

2008, David Denby, “Overripe, Undernourished”, in The New Yorker:

Go for a comedy, and you end up with Apatovian beta males whose emotions are largely tied up in the diminishing value of their comic-book collections.

2011, David Fear, “You've Got Male”, in Spin:

Yet without the Apatovian arc of its predecessor, it also feels a bit like a regression—especially given its typical sequel strategy of undoing the hard work of the previous film.

2015, A.A. Dowd, The AV Club, Ted 2 gets filthier but less charming:

(film) In the style of filmmaker Judd Apatow.


misregister

/mɪsˈɹɛd͡ʒɪstə(ɹ)/

There are several kinds of misregister including what appellant characterizes as “mechanical” misregister and “degrouping” misregister […] Both types of tubes exhibited serious misregister problems […]

1964, United States. Patent Office, Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trademark Cases, page 490:

(television) Undesirable displacement of the electron beam from the centre of a phosphor dot.


self-publish

en-verb

self-publish (third-person singular simple present self-publishes, present participle self-publishing, simple past and past participle self-published)

self-publishes (present singular third-person)
self-publishing (participle present)
self-published (participle past)
self-published (past)

(authorship) To publish a work independently, without the assistance of a publishing company.


trad-pub

traditional publisher
traditional publisher

(authorship) A work that has been published through a third-party publishing company, or a traditional publisher.


trad-pub

trad-pub (third-person singular simple present trad-pubs, present participle trad-pubbing, simple past and past participle trad-pubbed)

trad-pubs (present singular third-person)
trad-pubbing (participle present)
trad-pubbed (participle past)
trad-pubbed (past)

(authorship, informal) To publish a work via a third-party publishing company, or traditional publisher.


meganekko

Borrowed from Japanese 眼鏡っ娘 (meganekko), from 眼鏡 (megane, “glasses”) + 娘 (ko, “girl”).

Oh... Then I've have to find somebody who's be willing to get me a less-than-full-body shot of her, like the ones I have of five other meganekko who wear pince-nez: […]

2004 November 29, Rob Kelk, “Re: Anime genres? (was Re: Anime that every fan should watch?)”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Anyway, so far, really, my favourite character is Yuki. Bonus points when we find out in the second episode she's a meganekko.

2006 May 2, The Eternal Lost Lurker [username], “Just started Haruhi...”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Airheaded and delectably gauche, Miyuki stands out as a classic incarnation of the meganekko— namely, as noted, the moe type whose charm derives largely from the wearing of glasses—while also appearing to have a soothing effect on those around her by virtue of her sheer presence.

2012, Dani Cavallaro, Kyoto Animation: A Critical Study and Filmography, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 126:

(anime, manga) A female fictional character whose charm or attractiveness derives largely from wearing glasses.