DSC

DSC (countable and uncountable, plural DSCs)

(nautical, radio telephony) Initialism of digital selective call, a feature that allows a VHF radio to call another VHF selectively (as opposed to a call that is repeated by all receivers that are on within the range of the caller).


negative cutter

en-noun

negative cutter (plural negative cutters)

(film) A person whose profession is negative cutting and cuts and matches motion picture negatives using film splicers and film cement.


cold read

en-verb

cold read (third-person singular simple present cold reads, present participle cold reading, simple past and past participle cold read)

cold reads (present singular third-person)
cold reading (participle present)
cold read (participle past)
cold read (past)

At the audition you will be required to cold read a script.

(intransitive, transitive, acting, newsreading, education) To perform (a script) without preparation.


call sign

(broadcasting) A combination of letters and numbers used to identify a radio or television station.

رَمْز نِدَاء

(broadcasting) a combination of letters and numbers used to identify a radio or television statio


sign on

sign on (third-person singular simple present signs on, present participle signing on, simple past and past participle signed on)

signs on (present singular third-person)
signing on (participle present)
signed on (participle past)
signed on (past)

Years ago, the TV station would sign on at 5 a.m., but now it broadcasts 24 hours a day.

(broadcasting) To begin broadcasting a radio or television signal, usually at the beginning of a broadcasting day and after being off the air for several hours.


dénouement

en-noun

dénouement (countable and uncountable, plural dénouements)

Unadapted borrowing from French dénouement (“resolution”, literally “unknotting”).

ubor

Emily was a great favourite with him; and he had always viewed the attachment, at whose dénouement between her and Lorraine, Lady Mandeville meant to preside, as a somewhat foolish romance.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 271:

At last this affair is moving towards the explosive dénouement he has been craving — the revelation, the release of tension, that will shake the universe in one fierce convulsion, and then allow everything to fall back into its rightful place, restored to normality!

2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 830:

(authorship, often figuratively) The conclusion or resolution of a plot; unravelling.


guest star

(television) An actor on a television program who stars in one, or a few, episodes.


presenter

master of ceremonies
master of ceremonies

(radio, television) Someone who presents a broadcast programme; a compere or master of ceremonies.

aanbieder

someone who presents a broadcast programme


Britcom

(informal, television) A British sitcom.


center stage

(acting) The area in the center of the stage, especially one towards the front.


stage left

(acting) The area to the left of the stage when looking towards the audience.

näyttämövasen

area to the left (facing audience) of the stage


stage left

en-adv

stage left (comparative more stage left, superlative most stage left)

more stage left (comparative)
most stage left (superlative)


stage right

He enters stage right.

(acting) The area to the right of the stage when looking towards the audience.

näyttämöoikea

area to the right (facing audience) of the stage


stage right

stage right (comparative more stage right, superlative most stage right)

more stage right (comparative)
most stage right (superlative)


ident

In 1999 Chaudoir and fellow BBC designer Tim Platt were given the task of rebranding the existing BBC2 idents.

(radio, television) A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.


clapperboard

(film) A device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production to be able to synchronize picture and sound during editing.


breakout character

en-noun

breakout character (plural breakout characters)

(film, television, literature) A character who becomes the most popular, talked about, and imitated, helping to establish the narrative's popularity.


undercrank

en-verb

undercrank (third-person singular simple present undercranks, present participle undercranking, simple past and past participle undercranked)

undercranks (present singular third-person)
undercranking (participle present)
undercranked (participle past)
undercranked (past)

From under- + crank; dating from a time when movie film was advanced in a camera by the turning of a crank.

(film) To shoot a scene while advancing the film in the camera more slowly than it will advance on playback. This results in speeding up the action in the final film.


roaming master

(film) A master shot in which the camera moves relative to the performance.


two shot

(film) A scene shot with the camera positioned to observe two actors.


Dutch angle

From German deutsch, after its use by German filmmakers.

(film) A cinematic tactic achieved by tilting the camera off to the side. The shot is composed with the horizon not parallel with the bottom of the frame. The technique is often used to portray the psychological uneasiness of the subject being filmed.


undercranked

en-adj

undercranked (comparative more undercranked, superlative most undercranked)

more undercranked (comparative)
most undercranked (superlative)

(film) Of a scene shot while advancing the film in the camera more slowly than it will play on screen. This results in speeding up the action in the final film.


dolly grip

(film) A technician trained to use a dolly.


establishing shot

en-noun

establishing shot (plural establishing shots)

Using mostly fixed camera positions, he will intersperse scenes with establishing shots of the clanking, pitiless machinery of the ski lift, rattling rhythmically as bits of cable and metal thunk into each other.

2015 April 9, Peter Bradshaw, “Force Majeure review – after the avalanche”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(film) A master shot, the primary wide shot of a scene used to inform the audience of the location or situation.


aftercare

事後照顧

affection given to a partner after a BDSM activity

[…] bring the aftercare we do in the UK to the US and see if our approach can get the same great results on both sides of the Atlantic.

2010, Jeremy Kyle, You Couldn't Make It Up:

(television) Emotional support offered by the programme makers to a person who has appeared on a stressful television show.


wide shot

That post-battle wide shot showing a castle full of bodies and basically only Tormund, Gendry, and Grey Worm still standing was the equivalent of the show saying anyone on screen not wearing a “Hello, my name is…” tag needed to lie down and die.

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:

(film) A film or video recording made with the camera positioned to observe the most action in the performance.

plan large

A shot with the camera positioned to observe the most action in the proformance


closeup

All right, Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup.

1950, Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr., Sunset Blvd.:

(film) A video or film recording made with the camera positioned close to an actor, often so that only the head or face is visible.


pickup

pickup (countable and uncountable, plural pickups)

Chinese:

→ Mandarin: 皮卡 (píkǎ)

→ Finnish: pick-up

→ French: pick-up, pickup

→ German: Pickup

→ Indonesian: pikap

→ Japanese: ピックアップ (pikkuappu)

desc

→ Khmer: ភីកអាប់ (pʰiik’ap), ពីកឺប (piikəɨp)

→ Korean: 픽업 (pigeop)

→ Portuguese: pickup

→ Russian: пика́п (pikáp)

→ Spanish: pickup, picop

→ Thai: ปิคอัพ (bpìk-àp)

→ Turkish: pikap

→ Uyghur: پىكاپ (pikap)

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(film) A relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment previous footage.

dokrętka

material filmed after the fact to augment main footage


basher

(television, film) A kind of small floodlight.


book signing

(authorship) An event where an author signs copies of her/his books for fans.


rhubarb rhubarb

Chosen as a word for producing indistinct background noise because it contains no very sharp or recognizable phonemes: see rhubarb (“noise”).

Those glottals glugged like poured pop, each /rebarbative syllable, remembrancer, raise /‘mob' rhubarb-rhubarb to a tribune's speech /crossing the crackle as the hayracks blaze...

1981: Tony Harrison, The Rhubarbarians I in collection Continuous: 50 sonnets from 'The School of Eloquence' . Rex Collings, London (1981)

(stage direction) They all rise and drink. Rhubarb, rhubarb...To convey the next stage of To convey the next stage of general inebriation, the remarks that follow are spoken in a sing-song.

1983, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Victory Celebrations:

(film stage direction) Pan to a shot of the crowd of humanists surging forward and murmuring "Rhubarb, rhubarb".

1995, Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Masterpiece Theatre: An Academic Melodrama:

(film) Background noise of simultaneous conversations, none of which is decipherable since the actors are repeating the word rhubarb or other words with similar attributes.


spear carrier

[A]ctors would get annual raises through 2008, when even the lowliest spear carrier will make more than $1,500 a week for being on Broadway.

2004 July 15, Jesse McKinley, “Close Call On Broadway Had Its Roots On the Road”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-03-19:

(acting) A person in a play or movie with a minimal part; an extra.


segment

From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).

der

The news showed a segment on global warming.

In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.

2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.

osio

broadcasting: part of a program devoted to a topic


futanari

en-noun

futanari (countable and uncountable, plural futanari or futanaris)

From Japanese 二形/双成り/二成り/ふたなり (futanari, “hermaphrodite”, from 二つ (futa-tsu, “two”) + 形/態 (nari, “form”, from なる (naru, “become”))).

(anime, manga, uncountable) A genre of Japanese anime or manga featuring intersex characters that are depicted as attractive, usually works containing female characters with a penis.

(anime, manga, countable) An intersex character, usually female and with a penis, in such works.


cinematographer

кінематаграфі́ст

a movie photographer, especially one who is in charge of shooting a movie

(cinematography) A photographer who oversees the operations of the cameras and lighting when making a film. The cinematographer may also double as the camera operator of the movie camera, though this is usually done by a cameraman. The film director may also double as the cinematographer, though this is usually a different person.


one-shot

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And with the added bonuses of color and videotape coupled with the disadvantages of higher production costs, a lot of syndie producers forsook weekly series in favor of one-shot specials — and it didn't take long for the airwaves to become thick with one-shots.

2001, Hal Erickson, Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987, →ISBN, page 106:

The Mummy belongs in a chapter devoted to one-shots as its progeny are different breeds rather than direct sequels.

2013, B. Forshaw, British Gothic Cinema, →ISBN:

This spectacular, free one-shot also includes original short stories from Sean Rubin's upcoming, enchanting dinosaur tale, Bolivar; Jim Henson's fantasy classic, Labyrinth (an Archaia original graphic novelby Ted Naifeh, Adrianne Ambrose, and Cory Godbey is in the works); and Nate Cosby and Chris Eliopoulos' justice-seekin' boy hereo, Cow Boy.

2014, Louis Zampini, A Father's Guide to Comics, →ISBN:

The one-shot trend continued in Japan, where fans are used to paying what Western audiences consider absurdly high prices for anime, but this hampered them from Western release until companies began to bundle one-shots together.

2015, Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy, The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition, →ISBN:

(television, film, comics) A television program, film, or comic book that is not part of a series.

The smaller frame means that Hill uses a lot of tight one-shots, mixed in with more expressive images like an endless sea of skaters fleeing from cops or a slow push-in on Stevie and Ian having an uncomfortable conversation while playing video games on their couch.

15 October 2018, Jesse Hassenger, AV Club Jonah Hill makes his auspicious if uneven filmmaking debut with a Mid90s nostalgia triphttps://web.archive.org/web/20181015200214/https://film.avclub.com/jonah-hill-makes-his-auspicious-if-uneven-filmmaking-de-1829744755

(film) A cinematographic shot of a person talking to camera; a talking head.


flagging

flagging (countable and uncountable, plural flaggings)

Because older TVs are not able to respond quickly enough to the horizontal time-base errors introduced from the VCR, a VCR connected to an older TV may cause severe bending or flagging at the top of the picture yet appear to operate normally on a newer TV set.

1998, Robert Brenner, Gregory Capelo, VCR Troubleshooting and Repair, page 158:

(television) The skewing or bending of the upper part of a television picture due to imperfect synchronization of the video signal.


synchronizer

(film editing) A device for aligning multiple film strips in a replay or editing device.


on the air

Are we starting? We're starting.
Looks like it.
Are we on the air? No one even told me we're on the air.
We're not on the air.
We're not on the air, you're sure?
No.
Can someone tell us- are we on the air? Someone know?
Nobody knows.
Nobody knows. Nobody knows if we're on the air. Anyway, this is Penn Jillette, in Las Vegas, not even knowing if we're on the air. They just snuck up on us like that. But it's after 11.
It's 11 o'clock, we must be on the air.
Which is 2 o'clock in New York and 1 o'clock in Chicago, and I guess we're on the air.

2006 January 3, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, 0:04 from the start, in Penn Radio, number 1:


wraparound

wraparound (countable and uncountable, plural wraparounds)

(countable, television, radio) A segment where material featuring one person (such as a reporter) is introduced and concluded by another person.


wigwag

From wig (“to wag, waggle”) + wag (“to swing”). The noun is derived from the verb.

com

I parked near a big sound stage building; lamped a red wig-wag signal rocking back and forth to indicate a scene being shot inside. This meant no admittance until the cameras had stopped grinding. Presently a bell jingled and the wig-wag died.

1943 March, Robert Leslie Bellem, “Russian Run-around”, in Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, Wilmington, Del.: Culture Publications, →OCLC; republished as Russian Run-around, [Prineville, Or.]: eStar Books, 2014, →ISBN:

WIG-WAG The red flashing light outside of a stage indicating that filming is going on.

[2002, Michael G. Uva, Sabrina Uva, “WIG-WAG”, in Uva’s Basic Grip Book, updated edition, Boston, Mass.: Focal Press, →ISBN:

Any of a number of mechanical or electrical devices which cause a component to oscillate between two states.

A device that causes one or more lights to flash in a preset pattern.

(film, television) A red light near the door of a sound stage that flashes to indicate that cameras are rolling inside the stage and that all people and vehicles outside should remain quiet; a red-eye.


day for night

(film) A cinematographic technique in which a crew films in a high-contrast situation, typically in the early morning or late afternoon, with a blue filter, causing the scene to look as if it were shot in moonlight.


day for night

The Sandcrawler scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was shot day for night.

(cinematography) In the daytime, with a blue filter, causing the scene to look as if it were shot in moonlight.


checkerboard

(film) A style of negative cutting that avoids visible splice marks.


radiogram

Either:
* a blend of radio + gram(ophone); or
* a clipping of radiogram(ophone).

/ˈɹeɪ.di.əˌɡɹæm/

She comes in with a worried, puzzled expression. Then her spirits suddenly revive; she switches on the radiogram and dances gaily for her own amusement.

1935, Michael Egan, The Dominant Sex: A Play in Three Acts, London: Victor Gollancz, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 86:

Inter-train radio communication facilities between the Royal and pilot trains are provided, as well as train to land station contact, and the lounges throughout the train have radiograms. The King's study will have a radio receiving set of wide range.

1947 January–February, “South African Royal Train”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36:

He opens the plywood door that conceals the radiogram. The record is already on the turntable: Miles Davis letting loose.

2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, Auckland: RHNZ Vintage, →ISBN, page 96:

(radio, historical) Synonym of radiogramophone (“a gramophone record player that incorporates a radio receiver”)


bearding

(television) An undesirable video artifact whereby darker parts of a signal bleed across horizontally into the brighter parts.


billing

en-noun

billing (countable and uncountable, plural billings)

Actors that may have higher status in the industry won't always get top billing: if they only played a bitpart then it would go to the person whose character was the main focus of the movie.

2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, The Art of Movies:

When Corbyn finally gave a speech – in a stunning piece of billing that could only happen at Glastonbury, he appeared between hip-hop duo Run the Jewels and Southampton’s foremost R&B loverman Craig David – the crowd brought the entire area around the Pyramid stage to a standstill

2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian:

(chiefly film, theater) The act or situation of including someone or something among those that make up a complete list.


sunlamp

(film, photography) A high-intensity lamp, used to produce an illusion of daylight.


snuff film

Their whole case that porn is violent rests on classifying s/m porn as violent, and lumping it in with the snuff film.

1981 August 15, Nancy Wechsler, Gayle Rubin, Pat Califia, “Sadomasochism: Fears, Facts, Fantasies”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 7:

(film) A film that shows, or purports to show, the actual deliberate killing of one of the performers.


burn off

en-verb

burn off (third-person singular simple present burns off, present participle burning off, simple past and past participle burned off or burnt off)

burns off (present singular third-person)
burning off (participle present)
burned off (participle past)
burned off (past)
burnt off (participle past)
burnt off (past)

(transitive, intransitive, television) To fill (low-value air time) with programming not suitable for its original purpose.


principal photography

(cinematography) The phase of film production during which the film is actually shot, as distinct from pre-production and post-production.


sudsy

en-adj

sudsy (comparative sudsier, superlative sudsiest)

sudsier (comparative)
sudsiest (superlative)

By the end of that season, four sudsy series ranked in the Top 10: Dynasty in first place, Dallas second, Knots Landing ninth, and Falcon Crest tied for tenth.

2016, David Bianculli, The Platinum Age of Television […] , Anchor, →ISBN, page 140:

(television) Soapy; resembling a soap opera.


GH

(television) Initialism of General Hospital, an American daytime television medical drama first aired in 1963.


AFI

American Film Institute
w:American Film Institute

(film) Initialism of American Film Institute.


switcher

(television) Synonym of vision mixer (“device for selecting between video sources”)


slasher

Realizing there was a fresh market for a style of movie that studios had written off as niche material, Scream’s gonzo profits ushered in a wave of subsequent slashers trying to capitalize on a new generation’s discovery of the subgenre, as Gen Xers and Gen Yers alike learned (or re-learned) the fundamental pleasures of a good old-fashioned murder spree by a crazed killer, supernatural or otherwise.

2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-03-05:

(informal, film) A horror movie with graphic blood and violence; a slasher movie.


title track

(music, film) An audio track having the same name as the album, EP or film that it is taken from.

nimiraita

music, film: audio track with same name as the album, film etc. it is taken from


VOC

VSC

volatile sulphur compound/volatile sulfur compound

(Canada, radio, historical) Voice of Canada; former name of RCI (Radio Canada International)

(television, China) Voice of China; international cultural television programming from China


tea wagon

(US, film, slang) An audio mixing console on wheels.


windowing

en-noun

windowing (usually uncountable, plural windowings)

(film) The scheduling of the exhibition and distribution of a film, involving for example a period of theatrical showings before release on home media.


soliloquize

en-verb

soliloquize (third-person singular simple present soliloquizes, present participle soliloquizing, simple past and past participle soliloquized)

soliloquizes (present singular third-person)
soliloquizing (participle present)
soliloquized (participle past)
soliloquized (past)

"Now, I am quite sure that our beautiful hostess has been making an assignation," soliloquised Charles, who, for want of something better to do, had been watching the various actions of the group in the principal chamber in the castle, […]

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 276:

I rubbed my hands with delight over my happy notion, and soliloquised aloud, "What a joy there is in going about doing good actions."

1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part III”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 164:

(intransitive, drama) Of a character: to perform a soliloquy, to talk to oneself.


blacktress

[…] this literary/arts center presents Manifesto Night, with readings by such notable playwrights, poets, teachers, and blacktresses as John Baldessari, Max Benevidez, Pam Gregg, Sue Spaid, David Schweizer, and Ms. Vaginal Creme Davis.

(slang, film, rare) An African American woman who is a pioneer of the film industry.


duopoly

en-noun

duopoly (countable and uncountable, plural duopolies)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From duo- (prefix meaning ‘two’) + -poly (suffix meaning ‘pertaining to the number of sellers in a market’), by analogy with monopoly.

confix

(broadcasting) A situation in which two or more radio or television stations in the same city or community share common ownership.


overactor

/ˌoʊvɚˈæktɚ/

/ˌəʊvəɹˈæktə/


prime time

(television, radio) The block of programming on television during the middle of the evening, usually between 7:00 pm and 11:00 pm.


prime time

(television, radio) Showing or broadcasting during prime time.


overact

en-verb

overact (third-person singular simple present overacts, present participle overacting, simple past and past participle overacted)

overacts (present singular third-person)
overacting (participle present)
overacted (participle past)
overacted (past)

/ˌəʊvəɹˈækt/

He overacted his part.

(acting) To act in an exaggerated manner.


topic sentence

(authorship) A sentence at the beginning of a paragraph indicating the general matter to be discussed later in that paragraph.


slow motion

(cinematography) A technique of film, photography, and video to stretch time and allow visibility of things normally happening too fast to be conveniently examined.


high-hat

(television) A low camera mount without tripod legs.


transcribed

a transcribed drama series

(radio) Prerecorded for later broadcasting.


flyaway

Unless the TV crew has its own flyaway, the locals can still defeat a story they couldn't prevent reporters from covering by cutting it off at the pass, when it is being birded through their facilities.

1995, David D. Pearce, Wary Partners: Diplomats and the Media, page 43:

satellite television
satellite television

(television) A portable satellite television antenna.


procedural

/pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəl/

It is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form.

2000, Gary Hausladen, Places for Dead Bodies, page 35:

David Fincher’s horribly addictive samurai procedural, adapted by Andrew Kevin Walker from the graphic novel by Alexis Nolent, stars Michael Fassbender as the un-named titular hitman[…]

2023 September 3, Peter Bradshaw, “The Killer review – terrific David Fincher thriller about a philosophising hitman”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(literature, film) A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.


crosscut

crosscut (third-person singular simple present crosscuts, present participle crosscutting, simple past and past participle crosscut)

crosscuts (present singular third-person)
crosscutting (participle present)
crosscut (participle past)
crosscut (past)

(film) To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.


freeball

But the freeballs it has done on its own, Farmer's Daughter, Hazel, Bewitched, have proven the gambit.

Then there was no dearth of venture capital to provide freeball pilots for the market.

1970, Federal Communications Commission Reports:

At this time virtually no active producers go so far as to commission a "freeball" script without prior consultation with the network.

1984, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance, page 138:

(television) A show that is developed by the station without participation by the network.


chu

From the Japanese ちゅっ (chu', onomatopoeia).

By the way, isn't it interesting that the Japanese hear the sound "chu" when someone kisses? In the US, we usually say, "smooch," "smack," "smerp," or even "swock." Now, everytime^([sic]) I kiss my husband, I'm listening to hear if it sounds like "chu."

1996 August 12, Kathleen Webb, “Re: Zoicite a guy!!!”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet):

>Eldrick Tobin - Kiss worthiness of sig pending.
<chu!>
Seems fine to me. ^_^

2000 August 4, Fish Eye no Miko [username], “Re: [POLL] Which anime characters could be Ohtori students?”, in alt.fan.utena (Usenet):

movie Akio: [shoots a kiss to himself] Chu! ^.~

2000 August 19, Verthandi, “Re: [META] Ohha! Gally desu!”, in alt.fan.utena (Usenet):

(anime and manga fandom slang) The sound of a kiss.


dawn chorus

/dɔːn ˈkɔːɹəs/

[T]he dawn chorus usually has a characteristic chirpy sound, but at times changes into a hiss not unlike tube noise. […] Several investigators, including the author, have at times noticed a tendency for the dawn chorus to change intensity for a short period immediately following some lightning strokes. This may indicate a change in propagation conditions due to the electromagnetic or ionization effect of the strokes.

1956 September 14, Harold E. Dinger, “The Dawn Chorus”, in Whistling Atmospherics (NRL Report; 4825), Washington, D.C.: Naval Research Laboratory, →OCLC, page 14:

It is known that chorus, or ‘dawn chorus’, exhibits a pronounced diurnal variation in its occurrence and that different stations show different local times for the diurnal maxima. These maxima have been shown to be a function of geomagnetic latitude […]

1960 January 9, Joseph H. Pope, “Effect of Latitude on Diurnal Maximum of ‘Dawn Chorus’”, in Nature: A Weekly Journal of Science, volume 185, number 4706, London: Macmillan and Co.; New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →OCLC, page 87, column 1:

The frequency spectrum (Fig. 1) includes micropulsations (Pₜ, P_c, LP_c, PP, SIP, IPDP), gyromagnetic resonances, Schumann resonance, solar whistlers[…], dawn chorus, hiss, whistlers and sferics.

1964, D[avid] F[ranklin] Bleil, “Introductory Talk”, in D. F. Bleil, editor, Natural Electromagnetic Phenomena below 30 kc/s: Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute Held in Bad Homburg, Germany, July 22 – August 2, 1963, New York, N.Y.: Plenum Press, →OCLC, page 2:

Both authors used data from other stations to show that the time of maximum dawn chorus activity increased with geomagnetic latitude. [G. McK.] Allcock argued that this characteristic could be related to the precipitation of positively charged solar particles that might produce the dawn chorus by exciting proton plasma oscillations in the outer ionosphere. These oscillations would then reach the earth in the whistler mode.

1965, Robert A. Helliwell, “History”, in Whistlers and Related Ionospheric Phenomena, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, published 2006, →ISBN, page 21:

Alvin Lucier's (US) Sferics (1980) is a recording ot electromagnetic "tweaks," "bonks," and "swishes" originating in the ionosphere, the result of self-immolating meteorites, the dawn chorus, and the Aurora Borealis.

2006, Nicolas Collins, “Circuit Sniffing: Using Radios and Coils to Eavesdrop on Hidden Electromagnetic Music”, in Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking, New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 12:

(electromagnetism, radio) Radio interference sometimes experienced at sunrise.

aamukuoro

radio interference sometimes experienced at sunrise


seg

The usual partisanship for bankrollers of radio segs is shown on TV stations.


end board

(television) A short video or picture logo appearing before or after television programmes or a film.


top 40

en-noun

top 40 (countable and uncountable, plural top 40s)

Coordinate term: CHR

I was listening to a top 40 radio station.

Nearly every history of Top 40 launches from an anecdote about how radio station manager Todd Storz came up with the idea sometime between World War II and the early 1950s, watching with friends in a bar in Omaha as customers repeatedly punched up the same few songs on the jukebox.

2014, Eric Weisbard, Top 40 Democracy […] , University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 4:

(music, radio, uncountable) A radio format for popular music, usually including the 40 most popular songs at a given time.


noddy

From nod + -y, coined by John Fiske in 1987.

Noddies are often filmed after the interview in question has finished.

(television) A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview.


cume

en-verb

cume (third-person singular simple present cumes, present participle cuming, simple past and past participle cumed)

cumes (present singular third-person)
cuming (participle present)
cumed (participle past)
cumed (past)

Despite the exhibitor complications, Goodbye To Language has already surpassed Godard’s most recent previous project, Film Socialisme, which cumed about $33K in the U.S in its 2011 release.

2014, Brian Brooks, Deadline Hollywood, “Godard’s ‘Goodbye To Language’ Says Hello To Weekend’s Best Specialty Box Office”, November 2, 2014

(film) Earn cumulatively at the box office.


cume

With a cume so far of more than $38,000, the film has already outgrossed Godard’s previous feature, “Film socialisme” (2010), despite having opened on far fewer screens.

2014, Justin Chang, Variety, “Why Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language’ Demands a Wider 3D Release”, November 4, 2014

Taking into account the fact Wonder Woman opened lower than those other releases, these holds and its eventual $560-570+ million global cume after close of business Friday now all but assure Gal Gadot's Amazon princess will indeed finish its run north of $700 million.

2017, Mark Hughes, 'Wonder Woman' Has All-Time 4th-Best Third Weekend For Superhero Movie:

Compare cume to the number of shoppers that go into a supermarket. Let's imagine that the station has no listeners and the supermarket has no shoppers.

2011, Gary Dahl, Advertising For Dummies
If a particular station has a cume of 250,000, but most listeners are women and only a very few are within your target demo, then this 250,000 figure doesn't help you.

(radio, television) Cumulative audience.


cume

1988, Hugh Malcolm Beville, Audience Ratings: Radio, Television, and Cable
Cume ratings provide measures of net unduplicated audience for various combinations...

Cume persons represent a radio station's cumulative audience, or the estimated number of individuals reached by a radio station.

2016, Alan B. Albarran, Management of Electronic and Digital Media:


romcom

Shortening of romantic comedy. Probably based on the earlier sitcom.


road movie

For Timothy Corrigan, the road movie is ‘traditionally focused, almost exclusively, on men and the absence of women’ (1991: 143). David Laderman elucidates: Most road movies … retain a traditional sexist hierarchy that privileges the white heterosexual male, in terms of narrative and point of view. As in typical Hollywood films, the road movie tends to define the active impulse (here, to drive) relegating women characters to passive passengers and/or erotic destinations. (2002: 20)

2006, Ewa Mazierska, Laura Rascaroli, Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 161:

(film) A film in which much of the action takes place during a journey, especially one involving overland travel.


stacking

en-noun

stacking (countable and uncountable, plural stackings)

(television) A technique for keeping a captive audience by grouping together programs with similar appeal.


tween

en-verb

tween (third-person singular simple present tweens, present participle tweening, simple past and past participle tweened)

tweens (present singular third-person)
tweening (participle present)
tweened (participle past)
tweened (past)

The two most important and advanced ingredients of today's animation are tweening and morphing.

2004, D. P. Mukherjee, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics and Multimedia, page 117:

Simple motion tweening moves your objects in a straight line from here to there.[…]You can also combine frame-by-frame animation with tweened animation.

2005, Ellen Finkelstein, Gurdy Leete, Macromedia Flash 8 For Dummies, page 191:

The first parameter is the object that you want to tween, and the second parameter is the amount of time you want it to take in seconds.

2012, Christopher Griffith, Real-World Flash Game Development, 2nd edition, page 113:

(cinematography) To generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement.


camera move

(film, television) A specific deliberate movement effected by the camera, such as a pan, zoom, tilt etc.


playlist

/ˈpɫæɪ̯ˌɫɪst/

(radio) A list of recorded songs scheduled to be played on a radio station.


radio-frequency identification

(radio, telecommunications) The storage and retrieval of data using tags attached to individual packages, animals or people; the tags contain an integrated circuit to store and process the data, and an antenna to transmit and receive such data.


newsflash

Television programmes were interrupted by a newsflash announcing that the Prime Minister had resigned.

(broadcasting) A brief media report of something that has recently taken place.


phone-in

Coordinate term: phone-out

(broadcasting) A show requiring members of the public to telephone the studio.


pullback

(film) The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.


topspin

en-noun

topspin (countable and uncountable, plural topspins)

Well remembered as a visual comedienne, she also had the verbal knack of putting all sorts of topspin on a line.

1994, Richard D. Heldenfels, Television's Greatest Year: 1954, page 70:

Flashdance had a quality known as top spin, in which the casting, the concept and the look and sound of the movie all come together.

2010, Justin Wyatt, High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood:

2016, Quentin Letts, "A Very English Scandal: sex, lies and a murder plot at the heart of the establishment by John Preston - review" (in Evening Standard, 28 April 2016) https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/a-very-english-scandal-sex-lies-and-a-murder-plot-at-the-heart-of-the-establishment-by-john-preston-a3236271.html
This fluent, readable book has certainly been polished with a fair degree of what Fleet Street feature editors once called topspin: “Give it some topspin, old boy. Make the copy sing.” In this John Preston more than succeeds.

(uncountable, television, film, publishing) An edgy, quirky or otherwise engaging quality that holds the interest of the audience.


GMA

(Philippines, broadcasting) Initialism of Global Media Arts Network, a broadcasting company in the Philippines


lookbook

Mainly useful for feature films, the look book helps define the look in terms of the cinematography and design that you hope to achieve. It can contain stills from other films or photos as a visual reference […]

2012, Steven Ascher, Edward Pincus, The Filmmaker's Handbook:

(film) A showcase of photographs etc. describing how a film should look.


double-dip

en-verb

double-dip (third-person singular simple present double-dips, present participle double-dipping, simple past and past participle double-dipped)

double-dips (present singular third-person)
double-dipping (participle present)
double-dipped (participle past)
double-dipped (past)

(television, film) To re-release a movie or TV series, sometimes as a compilation or with additional features.


signature tune

(music, broadcasting) The tune that opens and/or closes a radio or television programme.


FAB

Coined by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson for the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds, from fab,
clipping of fabulous.

"Okay, FAB. Over and out."

1986, Márcio Souza, The order of the day: an unidentified flying opus:

It was great to report back to Mike and Jason on this knowing they were eager to hear that everything was operational. F.A.B. Virgil!

2011, Norman Beech, The Atlantic Job - A Dad and a Lad, FilamentPublishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 69:

“Understood. F.A.B., sir.” Their pilot hung the microphone back on its hook.

2013, Andrez Bergen, Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:

(radio telecommunications, humorous) used to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood.


on-time marker

(broadcasting, television) A short marker (a pip in audio or an asterisk in data) that signals a precise instant in time.


ECC

en-noun

ECC (countable and uncountable, plural ECCs)

(television) Initialism of electronic camera coverage.


gigging

(film, music, television, theater) The act of engaging in a musical performance, acting in a theatre production, etc.


soft key

(film, of lighting) Gently highlighting; low-key.


answer print

The studio bosses were unwilling to approve the answer print of the novice director's debut.

(film) The first graded print of an edited film combining sound and picture, which is created for the client to view and approve; his answer decides when the rest of the copies of the film are printed or not.


tumbleweed moment

tumbleweed moment (plural tumbleweed moments)

From the motif in western movies where the wind blows tumbleweeds through the scene, usually to establish that the place is desolate or empty.

…real life television news quizzes have the benefit of careful editing to remove the tumbleweed moments.

2004 July 14, Laura Davis, “Arts Diary: STAGE QUIZ”, in Daily Post, Liverpool, England:

When you’re wondering if they might just sit there self-consciously not saying anything (a tumbleweed moment) you need to get away from the centre-front, start moving around.

2005 April 1, Trevor Wright, How to Be a Brilliant English Teacher, Routledge, →ISBN, page 78:

Peter Gibson, of Keep Britain Tidy, said: “in a world of daft pranks, we want littering to be that tumbleweed moment, the joke that falls flat on its face.”

2005 December 19, Robert Stansfield, “Gimp ad to shame litter louts”, in The Mirror, London, England:

(British, figuratively, broadcasting) A period of stony, unresponsive silence.


floor manager

The floor manager came on the set and announced that the unseen director of the show had called cut.

2004, Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book: A Thursday Next Novel:

The floor manager counted me in and The James Whale Radio Show took to the air on Yorkshire Television in its usual slot.

2011, James Whale, Almost a Celebrity: A Lifetime of Night-Time:

The floor manager will be positioned somewhere out of shot but in JOHN'S eyeline and will hold up a hand with four fingers extended.

2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started, page 154:

(television, broadcasting) A manager of a television show, responsible for communication between the director and the crew.


shash

Even productions designed for office or home video viewing usually need a title sequence to mark off the empty tape, hiss and shash from the prepared recording […]

1997, Paul Kriwaczek, Documentary for the Small Screen:

No one sees shash now, but it was naked television. Shash was the term for those black-and-burst patterns that danced across the screen when there was nothing being broadcast.

2012, Paul Farley, Michael Symmons Roberts, Edgelands: Journeys Into England's True Wilderness, page 159:

(television) Synonym of snow (“random pattern of dots when there is no signal”)


midnight movie

Originating in 1950s American television, the term has undergone several changes over time (see Wikipedia article).

(film) A B-movie, often in camp style and with a retro theme.


lights, camera, action

(cinematography) The traditional cue to the members of a (silent) film crew at the beginning of a take.

الْأَضْوَاء، الْكَامِيرَا، اِبْدَأ

traditional cue at a beginning of a take


catch-breath

[…] it is possible to obtain the desired effect by allowing sections or individuals within a section to take an unobtrusive catch-breath at different times.

1940, Van Ambrose Christy, Glee Club and Chorus: A Handbook, page 55:

(drama, singing) A pause to take a breath.


dailies

The chances are that a cameraman requesting that his dailies be printed at the middle of the scale is cheating himself.

1972, American Cinematographer - Volume 53, page 811:

(cinematography) Lightly edited versions of the previous day's filming; rushes.


screen name

(film, television) Synonym of stage name


DT

DT (countable and uncountable, plural DTs)

digital television
digital television#English

(television) Initialism of digital television.


reverse shot

(cinematography) A shot in which one character is shown looking back at another, unseen character.


slug line

(authorship) A line of abbreviated text at the beginning of each scene in a screenplay that describes the location and time of day


authenticator

identifier

an identifier asserts identity; an authenticator verifies it

(agent noun) One who, or something which, authenticates, as:

(film, television) A person employed to check the accuracy and realism of a script.


spaghetti western

spaghetti western (plural spaghetti westerns)

From spaghetti + western, pasta being a famously Italian product.

“A Fistful of Dollars” and “Once Upon a Time in the West” are famous spaghetti westerns.

Over the years Django Kill has gained a reputation as the most violent Spaghetti Western and, though the film has tempered with age, it's still one of the oddest genre contributions.

2010, Howard Hughes, Spaghetti Westerns, Oldcastle Books, →ISBN:

(film) A motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy.

فِلْم سْبَاغِيتِي

motion picture set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company


linkman

From link + -man. See link (“torch, light”).

(broadcasting) A presenter who provides the connecting verbiage between a number of separate items in a broadcast.


shoot off

en-verb

shoot off (third-person singular simple present shoots off, present participle shooting off, simple past and past participle shot off)

shoots off (present singular third-person)
shooting off (participle present)
shot off (participle past)
shot off (past)

(television) To overshoot the bounds of a set when filming, showing part of what lies outside it.


kitchen-sinky

en-adj

kitchen-sinky (comparative more kitchen-sinky, superlative most kitchen-sinky)

more kitchen-sinky (comparative)
most kitchen-sinky (superlative)

From kitchen sink + -y. Sense 1 alludes to the phrase everything but the kitchen sink, sense 2 to the phrase kitchen sink realism.

Not that Warner's is merely a domesticated version of Euripides. It stars, after all, that least kitchen-sinky of actors.

2001 February 4, Susannah Clapp, “Mother knows best”, in The Guardian:

"Here was a kid who was imagining things and inventing things and none of this was odd to her, mum and dad being junkies. I didn't want to comment; I just present the story. And I didn't want to be too kitchen-sinky, because it's a heightened reality."

2007 April 29, Stephanie Bunbury, “Tide and emotions”, in The Age:

"He takes this seedy little story of seedy little people in seedy little rooms, and he makes it big and operatic and grandiose. I love that. It could have all been documentary-like or a bit kitchen sinky, and all rough and tough. […]

2011 February 7, Gina Picallo, “Helen Mirren interview”, in The Telegraph:

(drama) Of or pertaining to the kitchen sink drama; depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.


analytical editing

(cinematography) A cut-in during a scene to highlight a closer view of some part of the same space.


drive time

en-noun

drive time (countable and uncountable, plural drive times)

Mornings and afternoons are called "drive time" because that is when most people are driving. When people commute they tend to listen to the radio, thus drive time is primetime when it comes to total number of radio listeners. During drive time, radio stations have a captive audience.

2007, Chris Schneider, Starting Your Career in Broadcasting page 212:

(uncountable, countable, broadcasting) The time of the day when most people commute to work, regarded as a popular time to listen to the radio.


STB

(television) Initialism of set top box - a video signal converter for televisions


hamfat

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


UPI

Universal Pictures International
w:Universal Pictures

(film) Initialism of Universal Pictures International.


intertitle

The film made frequent use of intertitles: every scene change was accompanied by text describing the new location.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:intertitle.

(cinematography) A piece of static text inserted into the film to provide context or other information.

väliteksti

cinematography: piece of static text inserted into a film


shonen

From the Japanese 少年 (shōnen, “few years”).

(anime, manga) A style of Japanese animation and comics aimed at a younger male audience.


shonen

en-adj

shonen (comparative more shonen, superlative most shonen)

more shonen (comparative)
most shonen (superlative)

(anime, manga) Being in the style of shonen comics or animation.


policier

(film, often italicized) A police movie, particularly one based on a police novel


cinema verite

(film) Alternative form of cinéma vérité


cinéma vérité

Borrowed from French cinéma vérité (literally “truth cinema”).

bor

(film) A style of cinema that appears to be realistic, showing ordinary people in ordinary situations speaking and acting naturally.


mecha

From Japanese メカ (meka), from an abbreviation of the English mechanical.

Having deprived her of both her mecha and her lover, Masato looks set for a nasty end, but Miku arrives to save him.

1997, Helen McCarthy, The anime movie guide:

A transformation occurs when a mecha character, vehicle, or weapon unfolds and reassembles itself in a totally new form.

2002, Christopher Hart, Anime mania: how to draw characters for Japanese animation:

Porco Rosso evinces a deep fascination with mechanical objects of all sorts but it is by no means a mecha movie...

2006, Dani Cavallaro, The animé art of Hayao Miyazaki:

Each week the good guys fight the bad guys and vanquish them in a mecha battle, only to have the bad guys reappear intact the following week.

2007, Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire:

[…] to be a “lifter”—to pilot a mecha that can also transform into an air board […]

2007, Robin E. Brenner, Understanding manga and anime, page 170:

In this section, I show you mechas that are large enough to be piloted by humans from the inside. Although most of them are designed for combat, some function as transportation or construction mechas.

2011, Kensuke Okabayashi, Manga For Dummies, page 275:

(anime, manga) A large armoured robot on legs, typically controlled by a pilot seated inside.


on camera

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He isn't even on-camera talent: he just holds the cue cards.

(television, film) In or related to a role in front of the cameras, e.g. as a presenter or actor.


RCI

(Canada, radio) Initialism of Radio Canada International.


love interest

Many people are involved in relationships in which they do not know how their love interest feels about them. […] They may also fear knowing the truth, which may be that their love interest isn't truly interested enough in them to make a commitment to the relationship.

2012, Barbara R. Cohl, “What Unhappy Couples Can Teach Us”, in Success for Modern Day Relationships: Working with Dating, Engaged, and Married Couples, Lanham, Md., Plymouth, Devon: Jason Aronson, →ISBN, page 82:

Items from the "Love Styles" scale (Grote & Frieze, 1994) and the Hatfield and Rapson "Passionate Love" scale (Hatfield & Sprecher, 1986) were used to assess the type of love felt for the other person. One love style measured was eros, or passionate love (Lee, 1976). […] Items were: "I was physically attracted to my love interest"; "I felt we had the right physical chemistry between us"; "Just seeing my love interest excited me"; "I felt that I knew and really understood my love interest"; […]

2015, H. Colleen Sinclair, Irene Hanson Frieze, “Initial Courtship Behavior and Stalking: How Should We Draw the Line?”, in Roland D. Maiuro, editor, Perspectives on Stalking: Victims, Perpetrators, and Cyberstalking, New York, N.Y.: Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 61:

Naturally, Fallout also plays to [Tom] Cruise’s waning appeal as a romantic leading man, supplying him with no less than three potential love interests.

2018 July 25, A. A. Dowd, “Fallout may be the Most Breathlessly Intense Mission: Impossible Adventure Yet”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-07-31:

(film, literature) One who is of interest as a (potential) partner in love.

vlam

one of interest as a (potential) partner in love

Some of the greatest and most widely-appreciated literary achievements have been wholly or mainly independent of love-interest or love-inspiration. Religious fervour, zeal for liberty, admiration of abstract virtue, philanthropy, desire to search the heart of man, and contemplation of the beauties and splendours of the outward world,—all these prove to be motives as capable of firing and exalting the imagination as the more directly personal stimulus of love.

1875 July, “the London Hermit” [pseudonym], “Essays and Sketches. On Love in Fiction.”, in Dublin University Magazine. A Literary and Political Journal, volume LXXXVI, number DXI, Dublin: George Herbert, […], London: Hurst & Blackett, Melbourne, Vic.: George Robertson, →OCLC, page 113, column 1:

"The Hand of Peril" is subtitled by its author, Mr. Arthur Stringer, "a novel of adventure," whereas I should label it a six-cylinder detective story. […] Incidentally, the ligament that holds these six morsels together is, of course, a "love-interest" between the detective and the chief criminal's putative daughter and assistant.

1915 September, Henry Brinsley, “Latest News from the Literary Trenches”, in Frank Crowninshield, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 5, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Vanity Fair Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 94, column 1:

The love interest is supplied by the Colonel's grandson and the daughter of the inventor of a horseless wagon.

1926 December, [Arthur Hornblow, Sr.], “Mr. Hornblow Goes to the Play”, in F. E. Allardt, editor, Theatre Magazine: For the Lovers of the Stage and the Screen, volume XLIV, number 309, New York, N.Y.: Theatre Magazine Company, →OCLC, page 72, column 2:

(film, literature) A romantic plot or subplot in a film or book.


Altmanesque

en-adj

Altmanesque (comparative more Altmanesque, superlative most Altmanesque)

more Altmanesque (comparative)
most Altmanesque (superlative)

(film) Displaying traits typical of a film made by Robert Altman (1925–2006), typically highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective and often a subversive twist.


punch up

en-verb

punch up (third-person singular simple present punches up, present participle punching up, simple past and past participle punched up)

punches up (present singular third-person)
punching up (participle present)
punched up (participle past)
punched up (past)

Sound films have to be loaded so that the sound is 5 seconds before the sound drum so a wow does not result when the film is punched up on the air.

1970, Larry G. Goodwin, Thomas Koehring, Closed-circuit Television Production Techniques, page 80:

In this illustrated example, camera 2 is punched up on the program buss and is therefore being sent out directly […]

1982, Thomas D. Burrows, Donald N. Wood, Television Production: Disciplines and Techniques, page 132:

(transitive, television) To switch (a source) into the main transmission.


songwriting

en-noun

songwriting (usually uncountable, plural songwritings)


subchannel

(radio) A distinct division of a channel or frequency band.

[…] TV shows you watched when you were younger, you'll likely find them on the subchannels of your local TV stations — which are available free to anyone with a TV set and a good antenna.

2020, Michael R. Miller, My TV for Seniors:

It may well be that our viewers are going to say, "You know what? We don't care as much about 10801. We would rather have you rerun 'CBS News' on a subchannel and show your prime time entertainment in a lesser definition of digital television" […]

2001, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Digital Television: A Private Sector Perspective on the Transition: Hearing..., page 98:

(television) An additional frequency owned by a television broadcaster used for less lucrative content.


seventh art

/ˌsɛvnθ ˈɑːt/

/ˌsɛvənθ ˈɑɹt/

Calque of Italian settima arte, which was coined by the Italian film theoretician Ricciotto Canudo (1877–1923) in 1921, considering filmmaking to be a new art combining the six previous arts of architecture, sculpture, painting, music, dance, and poetry. Canudo had previously used the term sesta arte (literally “sixth art”) to describe filmmaking around 1911 when he did not include dance in the set of preceding arts.

Georges Charensol's Panorama du cinema, originally published in 1927, […] was the bible of devotees of the seventh art.

1948, Jacques Queval, “Three French Histories of Film [book reviews]”, in Hollywood Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 454, column 2:

Because of the inherent interdisciplinarity of studying film—once called, appositely, the "seventh art"—film studies was among the first disciplines to embrace such theories and methodologies as feminism, semiotics, and structuralism.

2004 spring, Barry Keith Grant, “Diversity or Dilution? Thoughts on Film Studies and the SCMS [Society for Cinema and Media Studies]”, in Jon Lewis, editor, Cinema Journal: The Journal of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, volume 43, number 3, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 90:

With some 40,000 professionals in attendance, Cannes is the world's largest annual convention, and a yearly thermometer for the temperature of the seventh art.

2008 May 14, Richard_Corliss, Mary Corliss, “Can Cannes still Do It?”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2008-05-16:

(film, chiefly preceded by the definite article) The art of making motion pictures; filmmaking; cinema.

Cinémathèque Française
Federico Fellini
Il bidone
Jean Epstein
Ricciotto Canudo

seitsemäs taide

art of making motion pictures — see also filmmaking


remaster

en-verb

remaster (third-person singular simple present remasters, present participle remastering, simple past and past participle remastered)

remasters (present singular third-person)
remastering (participle present)
remastered (participle past)
remastered (past)

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(film) To create a new master copy by enhancing sound or picture quality of an older recording.

remasteroida

to create a new master copy by enhancing sound or picture quality of an older recording


closed caption

(television) Text which can be displayed on a television or other video screen with suitable equipment, usually a transcription or description of audio material.

隱藏字幕

text displayed on a screen with suitable equipment


letterboxing

(film) The practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio.


fantastique

Unadapted borrowing from French fantastique. Doublet of fantastic.

ubor

And certainly the film's free-floating fantasy and the blatant transparency of its narrative--its capacity to be seen for the artifice that it is--are a lot closer to fantastique than they are to the more logically circumscribed forms of fancy celebrated in this country.

1988 January 29, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Invitation to the Trance”, in Chicago Reader:

(film, literature) A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.


QSO

en-verb

QSO (third-person singular simple present QSOs, present participle QSOing, simple past and past participle QSOed)

QSOs (present singular third-person)
QSOing (participle present)
QSOed (participle past)
QSOed (past)

The basic award is issued when 500 countries have been successfully QSOed on the three bands.

1993, CQ: The Radio Amateurs' Journal, volume 49, numbers 7-12, page 66:

(transitive, intransitive, radio slang) To communicate (with) by means of amateur radio.


creature feature

en-noun

creature feature (plural creature features)

"Godzilla" is one of the classic creature features.

(idiomatic, film, humorous) A horror film in which one or more monsters plays a prominent role.


RQQ

(radio astronomy) Initialism of RadioQuiet Quasar.


intercut

en-verb

intercut (third-person singular simple present intercuts, present participle intercutting, simple past and past participle intercut)

intercuts (present singular third-person)
intercutting (participle present)
intercut (participle past)
intercut (past)

The film's plot revolves around Robert Adams […] whose older lover […] is in prison. He knows that he cannot send the love letters he wants to, so he writes and keeps them in a journal. Most of the film features voice-overs of his writing intercut with the memories of their life together.

1987 August 22, Michael Bronski, “Real To Reel”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 6, page 8:

(cinematography) To alternate between scenes from one sequence and scenes from another film sequence, often with the sequences to be perceived as simultaneous.


intercut

Smith's execution of the gangster who busted his car is the closest to some of the violence of Hill's early films, including a Peckinpahesque use of intercut slow-motion to track the gangster's harness-aided trip down the stairs to the dusty street.

2022, Brian Brems, The Films of Walter Hill: Another Time, Another Place, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 217:

(cinematography) An alternating sequence of this kind.


fill music

(broadcasting) Music broadcast as an interlude between formally scheduled programming, or to fill in during an unscheduled interruption, in order to forestall listener abandonment of the station.


film crew

(film) The group of people, excluding the cast and producers, who are hired by a film company to make a film.


staple character

en-noun

staple character (plural staple characters)

The mad scientist was a staple character in many horror films.

(writing, theater, film) A stock character, especially one that is overused.


theatrical film

theatrical film (plural theatrical films)

(film) A motion picture specifically made to be shown in a theatre, as opposed to a made-for-television film, or a film released directly to video.


senpai

Borrowed from Japanese 先(せん)輩(ぱい) (senpai). Doublet of sunbae.

(anime and manga, fandom slang) An upperclassman or elder student, in the context of Japan.


chyron

Genericization of the trademark Chyron, from Chiron (“centaur of Greek mythology”).

Chyrons (electronically enlarged words or numbers superimposed on the screen) might be used to illustrate and compare budget figures or to emphasize a quote.

1982, Judy Woodruff, Kathleen Maxa, “This is Judy Woodruff at the White House”, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 63:

Chyron recognition: A celebrity who needs no electronically inserted title or caption (a chyron) to identify him or her on television, especially news programs or interview shows.

1999, Rodger W[illiam] Claire, Entertainment 101: An Industry Primer, Beverly Hills, Calif.: Pomegranate Press, →ISBN:

The ABC broadcast also began to use Chyrons, which "generated brightly colored maps, charts, graphs, and illustrations and imposed text over pictures. A red slash, like the one on the cover of Time magazine, was superimposed on stories, in an effort to give ABC's newscast a distinctive identity."

2004, James T. Hamilton, All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 170:

In the days before desktop video production software, such as Final Cut Pro and After Effects, making even a simple black and white title was a tough business. Creating broadcast-quality video titles required a specialized piece of expensive equipment called a Chyron generator and a highly skilled Chyron operator to run it. In fact, there was a time when Chyron operators made a good living because they were the only ones who knew how to make good, professional quality titles.

2006, Ian David Aronson, DV Filmmaking: From Start to Finish, Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 168:

The TV images that would shake American politics like none had since Watts in 1965 began innocuously enough: on NBC, above a chyron reading taped, it looked like a busy New York rush hour, though some are holding handkerchiefs to their faces. […] [T]he hemmed-in cops threw tear-gas canisters across the street at the apex of the marchers' U-turn […] grant park, chicago, illinois, the chyron now reads, and a woman's voice says, "The kids are still marching, it looks like a whole gathering of people with terrible colds"; […]

2008 May, Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 321:

Chyron. Words shown on a video screen. Also known as a super. A slash (/) indicates a line break in a Chyron message in a script.

2015, Charles Marsh, David W. Guth, Bonnie Poovey Short, “Broadcast/Podcast Writing”, in Strategic Writing: Multimedia Writing for Public Relations, Advertising, and More, 3rd edition, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 13:

On the TV, a guest sits on the George Drudge couch. Below her a chyron reads: Chandice, Admits she eats her Kleenex. A chyron reads: Rick, Says he doesn't trust Amy, that's why he watches her poop. On the bus, someone shouts, 'I do dat, too!' On the TV, a chyron reads: Selena, Admits she's obsessed with burping.

2016, Michael Grothaus, Epiphany Jones, [London]: Orenda Books, →ISBN:

(US, television) A set of graphics or words at the bottom of a television screen, sometimes unrelated to the current viewing content.


wireless cable

(television) A method of cable television distribution using prior wireless signal reception via a microwave antenna.


production value

production value (plural production values)

Soon the novelty of all-talking pictures wore off and incidental music began to make a comeback. It was, after all, an added production value.

1969, Toby Haggith, “Face the Music”, in Film Quarterly, volume 22, number 4, page 11:

The New York publicity people asked the studio people if the films were to be shot in colour or not so as to decide if whether to feature that production value in the promotional campaigns.

1994, Mark S. Miller, “Helping Exhibitors: Pressbooks at Warner Bros. in the Late 1930s”, in Film History, volume 6, number 2, page 189:

(film, performing arts, usually in the plural) A method, material, or stagecraft skill used in the production of a motion picture or artistic performance; the technical quality of such a method, material, or skill.


tragic hero

(drama) A hero who suffers from a tragic flaw that eventually causes his downfall.


shakycam

For quotations using this term, see Citations:shakycam.

(film, television) A style of filming using a handheld camera, giving an on-screen effect of shakiness.


fandub

The fandub Evangelion: ReDeath is shown every year at Fanime.

(US, anime) An anime title that has been dubbed by fans.


plotty

en-adj

plotty (comparative plottier, superlative plottiest)

plottier (comparative)
plottiest (superlative)

“Now Beacon, Now Sea,” his first memoir, is perhaps more straightforward than his voicey, plotty novels, and he indulges in novelistic and cinematic flourishes — cascading lists, lyrical still lifes — only occasionally.

2021 September 6, Eleanor Henderson, “Why Did Two People So Poorly Matched Stay Together So Long?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(informal, of a book, film, story) Having a complicated plot.


PIP

en-noun

PIP (countable and uncountable, plural PIPs)

(television) Acronym of picture-in-picture.


DTV

(television) digital television broadcast


PVR

personal video recorder
personal video recorder#English

(television) Initialism of personal video recorder.


digital video recorder

digital video recorder (plural digital video recorders)

personal video recorder
personal video recorder


featurette

→ French: featurette

The 1950 production program of the RD-DR Corporation (Reader's Digest-deRochemont) has been expanded to include six hour-length “featurettes” in addition to two longer pictures, it was announced yesterday by Louis de Rochemont, the producer.

1949 September 24, “8 Films in '50 Set by De Rochemont”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

With DVDs steadily joining VHS cassettes as extinct technology, what has become of the fun, insightful mixed bag that movie fans came to know as bonus features — the audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, bloopers, deleted scenes and alternate endings?

2018 April 6, Fabrice Robinet, “Oh for the Days of the Making-Of Featurette — Seriously”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(film) A short film of bonus material, companion to the main feature, frequently part of additional material in a home video release on LaserDisc, DVD, Blu-Ray.


costume drama

From the works of Jane Austen and novels including Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1945), D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love (1945), Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1938), and Ian McEwan's Atonement (2001) to costume dramas such as Downton Abbey and Bridgerton, there's a particular narrative allure to houses full of secrets and staff quarters.

2023 November 13, Rosalind Jana, “Saltburn and the bizarre life of Britain's stately homes”, in BBC:

(film or television) A period piece featuring elaborate costumes which capture the atmosphere of the portrayed era.


bullet time

First used with reference to the 1999 film The Matrix, and later to the slow-motion effects in the 2001 video game Max Payne.

...particularly in the use of the bullet-time technique...

2006, Dani Cavallaro, The Cinema of Mamoru Oshii: Fantasy, Technology and Politics:

(film, video games) A visual effect in which the camera pans around a slowed-down object, such as a flying bullet.


swap out

Luckily, on this show we have swap outs, so we don't have to wait.

(television) A pre-prepared food item used in place of an unfinished food item in order to cut down the overall preparation time during filming.


talk show

→ Danish: talkshow

→ Korean: 토크쇼 (tokeusyo)

→ Polish: talk-show

→ Russian: ток-шо́у (tok-šóu)

→ Spanish: talk show

→ Swedish: talkshow

→ Chinese: 脫口秀／脱口秀 (tuōkǒuxiù)

(broadcasting) A television or radio programme in which a host converses on various topics with guests who may be experts, celebrities, or members of the listening or viewing audience.

بَرْنَامَج حِوَارِيّ

TV or radio programme in which a host converses with guests


variety show

(radio, television, theater) A type of entertainment featuring a succession of short, unrelated performances by various artistes such as (depending on the medium) acrobats, comedians, dancers, magicians, singers, etc.


keyer

(television) A device that replaces a fixed colour in the image with some other picture or background; chromakeyer.


refeed

refeed (countable and uncountable, plural refeeds)

During the current season, PBS will transmit […] 1,482 hours of program transmission and 2,366 hours of refeeds, station services, and regional split.

1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications and Power, Public Broadcasting - 1973: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, page 29:

The network also provides a refeed of programs which schools feel warrant repeating […]

Pennsylvania Public Television Network Commission, Annual Report - Volume 7, Parts 1974-1975


instant replay

(sports, television) A video recording of an action that can be replayed immediately after being recorded.


homodiegetic

The second part of the novella, including chapters 13-15, is more personal and reflective. Here, our apparently heterodiegetic narrator reveals himself to be homodiegetic: to be Tanner's sidekick BB Trane, previously referred to in the third person.

2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 185:

(literature, film) Of or relating to the narrator of a dramatic work who is also the protagonist or other character in the work.


exode

(Ancient Greek drama) The final chorus; the catastrophe.


intimist

en-adj

intimist (comparative more intimist, superlative most intimist)

more intimist (comparative)
most intimist (superlative)

However, he had not yet at that time fully displayed the principle of expression through intonation, the amazing ability to construct a line of verse in accordance with the most ready-to-hand, most colloquial speech - a characteristic which makes some critics group him with the intimist poets who write of the most complicated inner experiences, ostensibly inaccessible to the ordinary reader of today, and which makes others see him, no less mistakenly, as far too closely continuing the Futurists' methods of fashioning language.

1970, Donald Davie, Angela Livingstone, Pasternak, page 76:

Now its form is a psychological/intimist film which is less perceivable as a genre because it slips over so many (i.e., thrillers, adventure, historical reconstruction, etc.).

2006, Susan Hayward, French National Cinema, →ISBN:

For Barma, the close-up is an essential device to turn Macbeth into an intimist piece, but also to enhance realism and break away from the stage experience.

2013, Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, Victoria Bladen, Shakespeare on screen : Macbeth, →ISBN:

In actual fact, the project of redefining and purifying the Church's orthodox patrimony and the related re-establishment of an inward, intimist dimension of religion, which the head-on opposition in the early part of the century had unilaterally attributed to the Protestant enemy, was destined to gradually lose strength, with the setting of the sun on the generations of ecclesiastics who had themselves promoted the project and especially with the gradual disappearance of the Protestant menace.

2016, Giorgio Caravale, Forbidden Prayer, →ISBN:

(film, literature) Introspective; concerned with inner life and psychological experiences.


overscan

(television) The additional area around the four edges of a video image, outside of the safe area, that is not normally seen by the viewer.


colourman

(British spelling, broadcasting) A commentator employed to provide background information, analysis, etc., on a given news or sports event.


blockbustery

blockbustery (comparative more blockbustery, superlative most blockbustery)

more blockbustery (comparative)
most blockbustery (superlative)

He's a very blockbustery screenwriter.

You're never sure that what you'll see will be completely safe and blockbustery.

2003 June 24, Michael Atkinson, “Time to Get Ill”, in The Village Voice, archived from the original on 2008-10-22:

(film, informal) Having one or more characteristics associated with a blockbuster, such as commercial success, a large budget, or glossy production values


newsmagazine

Their newsmagazine airs twice weekly.

(broadcasting) A news show presenting feature-length stories on current events, rather than immediate reports.


theme song

“Liberty Bell March” is the theme song to Monty Python's Flying Circus.

(music, broadcasting) A song which accompanies a television or radio program, usually as an intro or outro.


sankyu

From Japanese サンキュー (sankyū), from English thank you.


spinner

From Middle English spynnere; equivalent to spin + -er.

Now, Cher was a spinner. Spinner is slang for a petite “chez chez la femme” who loved to assume the dominate sexual position on top. In other words, one could take a spinner and turn her around rapidly thus creating a circular motion and a geometrically induced orgasm.

2007, Hank Miller, The Admiral's Son, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 293:

For example, some johns used the term spinner to refer a petite female. This was exemplified by an exchange in the Dayton forum where individuals discussed the meaning of the term spinner:
 Purplehead: I picked up what looked to be a young thin WSW just south of McDs … She looked really good, about 100 lbs, and very cute, dark hair … a definite spinner..

2009, K.R. Blevins, T.J. Holt, “Examining the virtual subculture of johns”, in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, volume 38, number 5, Sage Publications:

He hadn't dated any Asian girls at Princeton, even though there were tons of them. They tended to be petite, and he wasn't into little girls, "spinners," as Andy called them.

2012, Amy Sohn, Motherland, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 112:

The girl peeking up at him under strawberry[-]blond curls was what men commonly referred to as a “spinner.” Petite, passionate, and pliable...one you could switch into a different sexual position without removing yourself from her heat.
[…]
"I'm going to fuck my little spinner now. She's had it too easy so far."

2014, Tessa Bailey, Staking His Claim, Fort Collins, CO: Entangled Publishing, →ISBN:

[…] petite women, whom he called 'spinners,' because, in comparison to 'heifers,' they are far more manageable.”

2016, LR Penn, The Syzygy, Lulu.com, →ISBN, pages 204–205:

(often vulgar, slang, film) Primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.


noirish

noirish (comparative more noirish, superlative most noirish)

more noirish (comparative)
most noirish (superlative)

His feature directing career began with the third installment of the "Alien" franchise, and before "Benjamin Button" all his movies were noirish thrillers of a sort.

2009 January 2, Dennis Lim, “Journey of a Director, From Night Creature to Tender Time Traveler”, in New York Times:

It must be acknowledged that the now global recognition his work has received […] has no doubt to do with his works’ noirish mixture of extraordinary artistic delicacy and ultra-creepy subject matter […]

2011 July 28, Terry Castle, “Do I like it?”, in London Review of Books, volume 33, number 15, →ISSN:

(film, art) Having the character of film noir.


chopsocky

en-noun

chopsocky (countable and uncountable, plural chopsockies)

Punningly from chop suey (“stir-fried vegetable dish”), chop (“fighting blow”), and sock (“punch”). Coined by Variety magazine.

Chopsocky actioner with standard fight scenes and atrocious dubbing.

1983, Variety's Film Reviews: 1978-1980:

The chopsocky films garnered a small following in this country precisely because of their often-ludicrous dubbing and the unrealistically-hard smacking […]

2001, Lisa Morton, The Cinema of Tsui Hark:

[…] bad enough that we settle for the typical chopsocky fare or do we protest and demand more realistic portrayals […]

2003, Gary D Rawnsley, Political Communications in Greater China:

(uncountable, film, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A genre of exaggerated martial arts films made primarily in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the 1960s and 1970s.


first team

(film) The actors who will actually appear in a scene, as opposed to the stand-ins, or second team, who take their places for the purpose of setting up the shot.


playwriting

playwriting (usually uncountable, plural playwritings)


chaqu

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 插曲 (chāqǔ).

/ˌt͡ʃɑːˈt͡ʃuː/

Teo clarifies that chaqu were eventually differentiated from "full-fledged" musicals […]

2001, Corey K. Creemur, “Picturizing American Cinema”, in Soundtrack Available, →ISBN, page 403:

(film) An inserted musical sequence in a Chinese movie.


nondocumentary

The director James Cameron on the set of "Avatar," a 3-D space adventure and his first nondocumentary film since "Titanic."

2009 January 12, Brooks Barnes, “Hollywood Finds Headaches in Its Big Bet on 3-D”, in New York Times:

(film) Not a documentary, or not documentary in nature


deinterlace

en-verb

deinterlace (third-person singular simple present deinterlaces, present participle deinterlacing, simple past and past participle deinterlaced)

deinterlaces (present singular third-person)
deinterlacing (participle present)
deinterlaced (participle past)
deinterlaced (past)

A deinterlace filter for interlaced raster scanned video data receiving sequential fields of video data one pixel at a time with each pixel of video data being received during a pixel time and outputing a deinterlaced frame of video data for each field received, the deinterlace filter comprising […]

1984, System for spatially transforming images, US Patent 4472732 (PDF version):

I think that an improved receiver, which could do deinterlacing, doubling the frame rate, perhaps combined with some way of getting rid of subcarrier-related artifacts, might be MAC or something else.

1985, SMPTE Journal: Publication of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, volume 94:

One advantage of MPEG-2 video on DVD is that computers and future players can deinterlace it and display it on progressive-scan HDTV screens, with considerably better quality than today's interlaced screens.

1998, Jim Taylor, DVD demystified, page 117:

Bob deinterlacing provides good results when the image intensity varies smoothly, but it can soften the image because it also reduces the vertical resolution.

2013, Michael Parker, Digital Video Processing for Engineers: A Foundation for Embedded Systems Design, page 43:

(film, transitive) To convert (video footage) into a non-interlaced format; to remove one field from each video frame.


antiauteurist

en-adj

antiauteurist (comparative more antiauteurist, superlative most antiauteurist)

more antiauteurist (comparative)
most antiauteurist (superlative)

Compared with the macho rich-boy fantasies of Rafelson's previous work, there is something rather antiauteurist about this well-crafted film noir thriller.

1988 January 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “10 From '87”, in Chicago Reader:


auteurist

auteurist (comparative more auteurist, superlative most auteurist)

more auteurist (comparative)
most auteurist (superlative)

In the case of documentaries, our thinking tends to be less warped and biased, if only because the auteurist sensibility has never been too comfortable outside of fiction.

1988 February 5, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Process of Illumination”, in Chicago Reader:

(film) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of auteurism


minimusical

Both shows lean heavily on their Jewish orientation, but where Fiddler is a folk musical of size and substance, Kaplan is a minimusical of sweetness.

1968 April 12, “New Plays: The Education of Hyman Kaplan”, in Time, archived from the original on 2010-10-29:

The video consists of a minimusical whose soundtrack sounds as if it were generated by an inexpensive electronic keyboard.

2009 January 25, Randall Stross, “Microsoft Songsmith Is Easy (if Painful to Hear)”, in New York Times:


grindhouse

From grind + house.
* Perhaps from the grinding or cranking motion employed by early projectionists.
* Perhaps from bump and grind (dubious). The term may originally have been used for burlesque houses in the 1940s.

For Mr. Bava[…], the road from the grindhouse to the art house — or at least, the virtual art house of the DVD player — has turned out to be surprisingly, encouragingly short.

2007 April 10, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times:

(US film) A low-budget film theater that shows primarily exploitation films


loli

From Japanese ロリ or a clipping of lolicon.

(fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) A childlike female character, particularly in the lolicon genre.


overplotted

overplotted (comparative more overplotted, superlative most overplotted)

more overplotted (comparative)
most overplotted (superlative)

Pursuing its preposterous, overplotted premise, Time merrily confuses myth with fact--Romeo and Juliet and Arthur never lived, or they did so under other names.

1988 July 1, Lawrence Bommer, “Channel This, or Die, Yuppie Scum!; Time in a Battle”, in Chicago Reader:

(drama) Having an excessively elaborate plot.


mumblecore

From mumble + -core, coined by sound editor Eric Masunaga.

(film) An American independent film movement or subgenre of the early twenty-first century, characterised by low-budget production, focus on personal relationships between twentysomethings, improvised scripts, and non-professional actors.


broadcast delay

en-noun

broadcast delay (countable and uncountable, plural broadcast delays)

Some networks have started using a broadcast delay on live programs to catch any offensive material before it aired.

2005 January 21, Jeremy Pelofsky, “FCC chairman Powell says he'll resign in March”, in USA Today, retrieved 2009-02-24:

(broadcasting) A very brief postponement, achieved by technical means, often used in the public broadcasting of live radio or television programs in order to provide sufficient time to edit out undesired content, such as profanity or coughing.


hambone

HAMBONE — An unconvincing blackface dialectician.

1946, Radio Alphabet: A Glossary of Radio Terms, Hastings House, page 38:

Ferrell is the ubiquitous hambone, an affably oblivious man-child prone to shirtless prancing onscreen.

2009 February 15, Rob Salem, “When comedy geniuses unite”, in Toronto Star:

(US slang, acting) A ham; an eager or inferior performer


call-in show

Billed as "the first and only" nationwide call-in show," it invites listeners to "call collect from anywhere in North America to have a heart-to-heart squawk."

1969 April 6, Beatrice Berg, “Let's Not Burn, Baby, Burn, Let's Talk, Baby, Talk”, in New York Times, page D19:

(broadcasting) In television or radio programming, a type of talk show in which a host and one or more guests sometimes converse with members of the listening or viewing audience who telephone the show while the program is being broadcast.


auteurism

Samantha Who?, a comedy beginning tonight on ABC, makes quite a good case against auteurism.

2007 October 15, Ginia Bellafante, “Emerging From a Coma a Slightly Better Person”, in New York Times:

(film) A theory that considers a work of cinema or television as the work of its director, rather than of the actors or producers


showrunner

Those so-called showrunners, the thousand or so people who share both writing and managerial duties on television shows, have already been squeezed by conflicting demands from guild leaders and company employers.

2007 November 3, Brooks Barnes, “With Resolution Unlikely, Writers Guild Sets Strike for Monday”, in New York Times:

The person at the apex of the production triangle is the showrunner: in short, the boss.

2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 66:

(television) The person in overall charge of the production of a television series.


midroll

(photography, film) In the middle of a roll of film.


blue film

(slang, film, pornography) a pornographic film


multicamera

(television) Filmed using multiple cameras and camera angles concurrently, often used when filming in front of a live audience.


genlock

(television) A technique whereby the video output of one source, or a specific reference signal, is used to synchronize other sources.


package film

(film) A film consisting of several short films, often a feature-length compilation of short subjects in animation.


aircheck

(broadcasting) A demonstration recording, often intended to show off the talent of an announcer to a prospective employer.


APM

American Public Media
w:American Public Media

(broadcasting) Initialism of American Public Media.


docufiction

docufiction (countable and uncountable, plural docufictions)

Coordinate term: docudrama

The Novel as Document: The "Docufiction" of Norman Mailer, Jay Cantor, and Jack Kerouac
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY that a novel-a work of fiction is based on the life of a real person, on events that really happened in the world […]

1988, Welch D. Everman, Who Says This?: The Authority of the Author, the Discourse, and the Reader, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 3:

Although not a new phenomenon as such, the genre of the docufiction film has grown spectacularly since the global and digital turns in the 1990s. Retrospectively attributed to the practices of such diverse filmmakers as Robert Flaherty, Jean Rouch, or Abbas Kiarostami, the genre, as the name suggests, applies to hybrid films that cross the traditional division of films between fiction and documentary. […] The docufiction genre generally, and Werner Herzog's recent films in particular, form crystals of a special kind.

2019, Jeroen Gerrits, chapter 4, in Cinematic Skepticism: Across Digital and Global Turns, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 73:

(film) A cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction.


silent film

silent film (countable and uncountable, plural silent films)

Lewis Stone as the Marquis gives one of the greatest performances in silent film I have ever seen.

2009, Neil McDonald, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 104

(cinematography, retronym) A film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue.


kohai

Borrowed from Japanese 後(こう)輩(はい) (kōhai, literally “later cohort”). Doublet of hoobae.

ja-r

(anime and manga, fandom slang) An underclassman or younger student.


countershot

(film) A shot taken to contrast with another.


Fox

en-proper noun

Fox (countable and uncountable, plural Foxes or Foxs)

* (surname): From fox (“vulpine animal”)

I watched a great show on Fox last night.

(US, broadcasting, uncountable) Fox Broadcasting Company, a large television network from the USA.


TAS

(television, informal) Initialism of The Animated Show/Series. An animated cartoon TV show version of a media property.


howdunit

After half a century, the whodunit was joined by the howdunit, in which the emphasis swung from the identity of the murderer to the method by which the murder was committed.

1969, Ellery Queen, In the Queens' Parlor, and Other Leaves from the Editors' Notebook, page 72:

(literature, film) A type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the crime, but on the manner in which it was committed.


whydunit

Connery takes over the interrogation and in the process beats the man to death. This much we know almost from the beginning, so the film is less of a whodunit than a whydunit.

1985, Laurence Urdang, Walter W. Hunsinger, Nancy LaRoche, Picturesque expressions: a thematic dictionary, page 420:

(literature, film) A type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the crime, but on the motives for committing it.


Aristophanean

en-adj

Aristophanean (comparative more Aristophanean, superlative most Aristophanean)

more Aristophanean (comparative)
most Aristophanean (superlative)

(dramaturgy, poetry) Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, his plays or his poetry.


antiplay

Samuel Beckett wrote several absurdist antiplays.

(dramaturgy) A play (dramatical production) that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of the play, such as a coherent plot and resolution.

antipeça

a play that deliberately avoids the typical conventions


earcon

(computing, broadcasting) A brief, distinctive sound used to represent a specific item or event.


Oprah

From Oprah Winfrey, a very influential talk show host, originally named Orpah after the Biblical figure, via metathesis.

He was on Oprah recently to talk about his new book.

(television, colloquial) The Oprah Winfrey Show, a popular long-running U.S. television talk show (1986–2011).


readthrough

(film, television, theater) An organized reading of the screenplay or script by all of the actors, prior to the actual performance.


antidocumentary

Written by Sam Shepard and director-cinematographer Robert Frank, this 1968 antidocumentary emphasizes the relationship between Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Peter's brother Julius[…].

1999 March 12, Lisa Alspector, “Me and My Brother”, in Chicago Reader:

(film) A documentary made in opposition to the normal standards of a documentary

antidocumentário

a documentary made in opposition to the normal standards of a documentary


antitheater

A.R.T. is a theater group, or rather an antitheater group.

1993 February 5, Bill Wyman, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:

(dramaturgy) Works of theater that go against theatrical conventions

antyteatr

works of theater that go against theatrical conventions


achronological

Another reason was the apparently inspired pairing of screenwriter Dennis Potter and director Nicolas Roeg, two dark poets of psychic subtexts and achronological memory flashes.

1988 October 14, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Muddled Americans”, in Chicago Reader:

The Time Traveler's Wife tracks the achronological course of their lifelong love affair.

2003 September 26, Martha Bayne, “Things Are Going Very Well for Audrey Niffenegger”, in Chicago Reader:

(chiefly literature, film) Not chronological; proceeding through time in a nonlinear fashion


kinestasis

en-noun

kinestasis (countable and uncountable, plural kinestases)

I used the same kinestasis technique that Chuck Braverman had used in his American History in Two Minutes.

2001, Jesús Salvador Treviño, Eyewitness: a filmmaker's memoir of the Chicano Movement, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 206:

(film) A rapidly-moving montage technique set to music.

Charles Braverman had seen Art and felt that a kinestasis short might be a welcome addition to the Smothers Brothers' Comedy Hour.

1970, David A. Sohn, Film: the creative eye, Dayton, Ohio: G. A. Pflaum, page 101:

(film) A film made with such a technique.


cold open

The best way to find out how the series you're writing for uses teasers or cold opens is to get your hands on a script.

2004, James Mendrinos, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Comedy Writing:

(television) An opening segment shown before the opening credits.


hammocked

(television) Scheduled between two other programmes, by hammocking.


ECMA

(film) Acronym of European Carton Makers Association.


push in

(cinematography) A zoom in which the camera physically moves towards the subject


scriptment

Blend of script + treatment. Coined by filmmaker James Cameron, possibly during his early involvement in the development of the Spider-Man film series.

(cinematography) A written work by a movie or television screenwriter that combines elements of a script and treatment, especially the dialogue elements, which are formatted the same as in a screenplay.


plot hole

Invited to collaborate with Hitch, Shaffer watched several of the director's previous films and noticed in North by Northwest a glaring plot hole; Cary Grant hides aboard a train that he has selected randomly yet, somehow, his pursuers lie in wait aboard the same train.

2012, Allan Brown, Inside the Wicker Man, Birlinn, →ISBN:

(authorship) A gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.


soundman

(cinematography) A technician who works with the sound recording and sound effects for films and television.


OEL

My Dead Girlfriend is one of the best OEL manga ever.

(attributive, of manga, anime, visual novels) Initialism of original English-language: Manga-, anime-style media originally published in English; (loosely, by extension) Any non-Japanese media which features a manga or anime style.


tentpole

His [James Rolfe's] reasoning dances around the simple fact that has set this innocuous-seeming movie apart from its fellow blockbusters this summer—that it’s a tentpole genre film starring women.

2016 May 18, David Sims, “The Outcry Against the All-Female ‘Ghostbusters’ Remake Gets Louder”, in The Atlantic:

(US, attributive, figurative, film, television, theater) A large-scale entertainment production that is a major source of revenue for its studio, television network, or investors.


tentpole

en-verb

tentpole (third-person singular simple present tentpoles, present participle tentpoling, simple past and past participle tentpoled)

tentpoles (present singular third-person)
tentpoling (participle present)
tentpoled (participle past)
tentpoled (past)

Coordinate term: hammock

(broadcasting) To schedule a popular programme between two newer or less popular ones in the hope that viewers will watch them.


superdeformed

(anime, manga) Alternative form of super deformed (“drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby, with stubby limbs and oversized heads”).


showrun

showrun (third-person singular simple present showruns, present participle showrunning, simple past showran, past participle showrun)

showruns (present singular third-person)
showrunning (participle present)
showran (past)
showrun (participle past)

But she dreams of having, and show-running, her own television program. In May, she’ll perform two nights as her character at Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn — a neighborhood that character would probably struggle to find.

2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times:

(television, rare, transitive) To act as a showrunner for (a television show).


diplexer

(broadcasting) A passive device that implements frequency domain multiplexing.


endcap

Coordinate term: frontcap

(television) A logo or visual sequence immediately following a programme, identifying the broadcaster or production company.


pull-focus

...this image of pure light forms (through a pull-focus) into an image of a snow-covered field, in the middle of which is a mother holding her two sons.

1989, R Bruce Elder, Image and Identity: Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture, page 384:

To set up a pull-focus shot, frame your shot so that the two subjects, at different distances from the camera, are in view.

2007, Gary Hudson et al., The Broadcast Journalism Handbook, page 212:

(film, television) A filming technique whereby the focal point is drawn towards the viewer; also a shot (as part of an edit) in which such a technique is used. Also used attributively.


to be continued

(writing, television) Used at the end of an episode of a serial publication or program to indicate that the story continues in the next episode.


bit player

(theater, film) An actor who has a minor role in a production.


blow down

blow down (third-person singular simple present blows down, present participle blowing down, simple past blew down, past participle blown down)

blows down (present singular third-person)
blowing down (participle present)
blew down (past)
blown down (participle past)


Razzie

A retarded sense of meta is achieved whenever Leto’s Chapman goes on about the phony theatrics of film actors, but it’s Lindsay Lohan, as über–Lennon fan Jude, who breaks your heart, looking convincingly horrified that she has three undeserved Razzies while Leto has none.

2008 March 25, Ed Gonzalez, “Chapter 27”, in Village Voice, retrieved 2020-11-16:

(film) A Golden Raspberry Award, an award given for poor performances in the film world.


sex comedy

Just as the screwball comedy had well-defined elements which the films in the group share, the sex comedy shares conventions of narrative and visual patterning, not only across the originating mid-1950s phase, but observable in later examples, up to the present day.

2007, Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 44:

(film) A genre of comedy film with sexual content or themes.


Bruceploitation

From Bruce (“Bruce Lee”) + -sploitation.

(film, martial arts) a genre of exploitation film that exploits the legacy of Bruce Lee through copycats.