Nordic noir

Nordic noir (countable and uncountable, plural Nordic noirs)

(film, uncountable) A subgenre of film noir, set (and usually produced) in Scandinavia; typified by psychologically complex storylines involving the investigation of cruel or brutal crime, as well as heavy use of stark landscapes, pathetic fallacy and grinding realism.

(film, countable) A film or show of this subgenre.


commag

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

clipping

(television, dated) Being a combined sound and picture recording, with the soundtrack magnetically recorded.


comopt

16mm colour film recording
Transfer and one comopt print £18 per programme minute, £100 minimum.

(television, dated) Being a combined sound and picture recording, with the soundtrack optically recorded.


sepopt

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

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

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


whip zoom

(cinematography) A rapid zoom that allows the viewer to focus suddenly on a subject.


network provider

en-noun

network provider (plural network providers)

digital distribution
digital distribution

(television) A broadcaster of Internet television using digital distribution.


bratpack

a bratpack movie

(informal, film) Of or relating to the Brat Pack.


Scandinavian noir

Scandinavian noir (countable and uncountable, plural Scandinavian noirs)

(film, uncountable) Synonym of Nordic noir (“subgenre of film noir”).

(film, countable) Synonym of Nordic noir (“film or show of this subgenre”).


toplighting

(film, theater, architecture) The lighting of a scene or location from above.


sidelighting

(film, theater, architecture) The lighting of a scene or location from the side.


Z-movie

By extension from B-movie. Compare Z-list.

(film) A very low-budget motion picture, especially one with poor production values.


Golden Age of Television

(Canada, US, television) The period of North American televised fiction produced circa the first two decades of the 21st century CE, seen as especially high quality.

(US, television, historical) The period of American television produced during the late 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, seen as especially high quality.


mood piece

The new picture isn't a thriller. But as an eerily poetic mood piece, where sea sirens menace the gentle romance of a young sailor and an amusement park "mermaid," this low-budget film is a haunting try for something different.

1963 June 7, Howard Thompson, “‘Night Tide,’ a Mood Piece, Is Shown at the Selwyn Theater”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Hunger is more of a mood piece than a straight history of the 1981 Irish hunger strike, but it creates that mood with impressive historical balance and haunting effect.

2014 March 6, Alex von Tunzelmann, “Hunger: A mood piece with impressive historical balance”, in The Guardian:

The always impressive Spall elevates this low-key mood piece a little, but even his skill as an actor can’t save the stultifying pacing.

2022 September 4, Wendy Ide, “It Snows in Benidorm review – Timothy Spall is the bright spot in overcast drama”, in The Observer:

(chiefly film) A work of fiction more centered on evoking a specific mood than following a conventional plot.


-con

Modeled after lolicon; ultimately from clipping of complex (“abnormal mental condition”).

clip

(chiefly anime and manga) Forming terms for abnormal sexual attractions.


talking picture

en-noun

talking picture (plural talking pictures)

(cinematography, dated) A motion picture that features an audio accompaniment, thus allowing the characters' speech to be heard by the audience (as well as a musical score).


geezer teaser

First known reference to the term was in a March 2021 Vulture article, in which film distribution executive Adam Champ attributed it to a client.

One of my clients calls it a ‘geezer teaser’: You have Bruce Willis at the intro of the movie, so people are like, Great, this is a Bruce Willis movie. But he’s actually a secondary character who shows up sporadically.

2021 March 31, Joshua Hunt, quoting Adam Champ, “The King of the Geezer Teasers”, in Vulture:

These low-budget affairs are called Geezer Teasers. They're genre movies that star older actors and cater to the direct-to-video (or streaming) market.

2022 January 6, “What Is a Geezer Teaser? And Why Do They Make Money?”, in No Film School:

5. Crackle
Good for: Fans of classic TV, British television, geezer teaser action movies
Crackle is a collection of on-demand TV and films, with a few originals included in a library that leans heavily on BBC content such as “Midsomer Murders” and such classic shows as “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “What's Happening,” “The Little Rascals” and “Barney Miller.”

2022 November 20, Kelly Lawler, “Free your mind: The best free streaming services, ranked”, in Detroit Free Press, page E.1:

(film, slang, derogatory) A film, most often an action film released direct to video and primarily distributed via video on demand (VOD), for which older, well-known male actors ("geezers") are billed in lead or co-lead roles and prominently featured (teased) in promotional material, but only appear sporadically during the film itself.


panoram

Such a panoram should be used only on distant objects. It should be executed slowly and evenly. It should always conclude, not start, with the most interesting objects within view.

1938, Popular Mechanics, volume 69, number 1:

For one thing, the rate at which a panoram is swung depends generally on a much slower motion of the hand controlling the turntable handle than the regulation twice a second which must always be given to the camera handle.

2000, Stephen Herbert, A History of Early Film, volume 2, page 104:

(film, informal, dated) A panoramic view.

Panoram

trade name of a visual jukebox that played short films


instant loss 2koma

instant loss 2koma (plural instant loss 2komas)

Partial calque of Japanese 即堕ち2コマ (soku-ochi ni-koma, “instant fall 2-panel”).

pcal

The cereal spitting guy was the original instant loss 2koma

2022 August 17, TripleKyun, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-11-17:

A two-panel comic depicting a character who displays smugness or overconfidence in the first panel, only to be defeated or humiliated in the second.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:instant loss 2koma.

A pornographic variant of this type of comic, in which the losing character is sexually dominated in the second panel.


legacy Oscar

Scanning the recent slates of winners, the legacy Oscar appears more and more frequently; even the most dedicated Jessica Chastain fans (also known as “Chastainiacs”) would have a hard time calling The Eyes of Tammy Faye her finest hour, but she’d accrued a reputation as an altogether deserving thespian by that point in her career, and that was enough.

2023, Charles Bramesco, A brief history of the “legacy Oscar” and its winners, Little White Lies:

(film) An Academy Award perceived to have been given in recognition of the awardee's career and performances in prior films, rather than for the performance specifically nominated.


cinephobe

(film) A person who detests films and the cinema.


majokko

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 魔女っ子 (majokko), composed of 魔女 (“witch”) + っ子 (“person having a certain quality”, also diminutive suffix).
This term is sometimes also glossed in English as “little witch”, the word 子 (ko) meaning “child” or “small”.

affix

The viewer is normally treated to the transformation from the point of view of the majokko herself - the other people around her basically would see a "flash of light" and (poof!) she's changed.

1999 July 13, Animeg3282, “The magical girl thread”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):


punch hole

punch holes (plural)
punch-hole (alternative)

(film) A marker on a frame of film, originally a hole literally punched through the film, signalling to the projectionist that the reel is due to be changed.


cigarette burn

(film, slang) Synonym of punch hole (“marker indicating that the reel is due to be changed”).


MMFF

Metro Manila Film Festival
w:Metro Manila Film Festival

(Philippines, film) Initialism of Metro Manila Film Festival.


appointment TV

Users are no longer passive watchers on appointment TV with schedules fixed by TV stations.

2002, Hari Om Srivastava, Interactive TV Technology and Markets, page 100:

(television) Television that is broadcast at a particular time, rather than being made available on demand.


live actor

In this film, the live actors interact with cartoon characters.


JBS

Jewish Broadcasting Service
w:Jewish Broadcasting Service

(television) Initialism of Jewish Broadcasting Service, an American Jewish television network.


Ken Burns effect

en-noun

Ken Burns effect (plural Ken Burns effects)

The technique was used extensively by American documentarian Ken Burns.

(film) A filmmaker's technique of panning and zooming over still imagery such as photographs.


fast-mo

Short for fast motion, as an opposite to slo-mo.

(film) The deliberate speeding-up of film footage.


E/I

(US, television) Abbreviation of educational and/or instructional.


worldizing

worldizing (countable and uncountable, plural worldizings)

In the previous examples, worldizing was used for dialogue or music, but it has also been used very effectively for sound effects.

2012, David Lewis Yewdall, The Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound:

Murch also explained to Jarrett, in the same discussion, how worldizing was central to American Graffiti’s sense of place: “The idea was that every teenage car in this town was turned to the same station, and, therefore, anywhere you went in the town, you heard this sound echoing off the buildings and passing by in cars.”

2023, “The Sonic Triumph of American Graffiti”, in JSTOR Daily:

(film) Sounds adjusted such that they sound as if heard in an acoustic location other than where originally created, generally by playing recordings in the new location and recording the playback at that location or by adjusting the audio depth of field.


neo-Western

In conversation with Cawelti's delineation, we now experience a revitalized genre, the neo-Western. Questions arise: Does the neo-Western signify a point in time when civilization has become so thoroughly corrupted and co-opted that savagery and lawlessness experience an inclining surge, creating a nihilistic outlook in comparison to the old epic/tragedy style which represented the best possible outcome for humanity?

2019, Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, editors, The Twenty-First-Century Western: New Riders of the Cinematic Stage, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 245:

(film) A subgenre of the Western genre that includes contemporary settings and uses Old West themes, archetypes, and motifs.


Black Wave

Still, the moviemaking style which began with the so called “Black Wave” of the Yugoslav cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, led by Dušan Makavejev and Želimir Žilnik, has many common traits, especially at the level of the humoresque,[…]

[2014, Doru Pop, Romanian New Wave Cinema: An Introduction, McFarland, →ISBN, page 155:

(film) A Yugoslav film movement of the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by its dark humor and critical examination of the socialist society at the time.


medium long shot

medium long shot (plural medium long shots)

A long shot or medium long shot will most successfully cover all of the action during the meeting of the two characters.

2012, Christopher J. Bowen, Roy Thompson, Grammar of the Shot, page 45:

The size of a medium long shot is also ideal to establish the dynamics of a relationship between characters, by the way they are placed within the composition (by using Hitchcock's rule, or balanced/unbalanced framings, for instance).

2013, Gustavo Mercado, The Filmmaker's Eye, page 53:

(photography, cinematography) A shot (snapshot or series of film exposures) taken from enough distance to show a character from the knees on up, wider than a medium shot but tighter than a long shot.


medium shot

The film then cuts to a medium shot, not of Marguerite but of Faust looking in the girl's direction with the devil posed somewhat artistically behind him, and the two begin to sing.

2014, Jennifer Fleeger, Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz, page 81:

(photography, cinematography) A shot (snapshot or series of film exposures) taken from enough distance to show a character from the waist on up, wider than a close up but tighter than a medium long shot.


buzz track

(film, television, radio) A background audio track containing room tone.


CGDCT

cute girls doing cute things
cute girls doing cute things#English

(anime) Initialism of cute girls doing cute things.


Eberhard effect

Eberhard effect (plural Eberhard effects)

(film, photography) The situation where narrow areas of high and low density cause two Mackie lines to meet, resulting in increased density in a small area.


picture white

picture white (countable and uncountable, plural picture whites)

(television) The brightest white that can be produced in a television image.


narratage

(film) The combination of screenwriting and audiovisual effects that captures an audience.


bleach bypass

The bleach-bypass really captured the light of Mexico City, especially given that we shot the commercial on a very grey and overcast day. […] The bleach-bypass process I find has a spiritual quality that I relate to and really love.

2021, Jason Wood, quoting Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

(photography, cinematography) A film laboratory technique where the bleach stage during the development of a color film is skipped, resulting in images with increased contrast and graininess.


CDWM

There is something distinctly British about CDWM. There was a running joke that you could have predicted how Britain was going to vote in the EU referendum by watching old episodes of the show.

2020 May 27, Kieran Yates, “Fifteen years of TV dinners: why Come Dine With Me has endured”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(UK, television) Initialism of Come Dine with Me, a British reality show where participants have to score the experience of eating at each others' houses.


Batman angle

From its frequent stylized use in the 1966–1968 television series Batman.


French New Wave

(film) Synonym of nouvelle vague (“influential French film movement of the 1950s and 1960s”).


set dec

(film, television, informal) Clipping of set decoration.


House That Freddy Built

In reference to Freddy Krueger, a character in the studio's highly successful Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Presumably modelled on the name of the traditional folk song This Is the House That Jack Built.

(film, slang) The American film and television production studio New Line Cinema.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise)
This Is the House That Jack Built


mockbust

en-verb

mockbust (third-person singular simple present mockbusts, present participle mockbusting, simple past and past participle mockbusted)

mockbusts (present singular third-person)
mockbusting (participle present)
mockbusted (participle past)
mockbusted (past)

It boggles my mind that no one has made a movie called Amityville Terror by now. It just seems like the perfect way to mockbust The Amityville Horror. In any event, one is on its way courtesy of Uncork’d Entertainment, and we have your first look!

2016 April 1, Steve Barton, “Spooky First Look at the Amityville Terror”, in Dread Central:

KING OF THE LOST WORLD was clearly designed to "mockbust" the big-budget KING KONG of 2005. But it seems that the producers at The Asylum company were a little more cautious than usual, because on occasion the owners of the franchise built upon the 1933 KONG have become litigious.

2023 January 3, Gene Phillips, “KING OF THE LOST WORLD (2005)”, in NATURALISTIC! UNCANNY! MARVELOUS!:

(film, transitive) To create a mockbuster.


DWTS

When "Mirrorball" meets the famed Mirrorball Trophy, you get a Taylor Swift-themed night on Dancing With the Stars. […] According to Variety, longtime DWTS choreographer and the lead choreographer of The Eras Tour, Mandy Moore (no, not that Mandy Moore), will join as a special guest judge for the Taylor-themed night.

2023 November 6, Samantha Olson, “How to Watch the Taylor Swift-Themed Night on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Season 32”, in Cosmopolitan:

Dancing with the Stars
w:Dancing with the Stars

(television) Initialism of Dancing with the Stars.


multicoupler

(radio, television) A device that splits the signal from an antenna into many receiver connections.


MTRCB

w:Movie and Television Review and Classification Board

(Philippines, film, television) Initialism of Movie and Television Review and Classification Board.


supercaption

A notable difference here is that whereas the BBC uses supercaptions in 15 percent of all items, ITN uses them in 28 percent.

2009, Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge, Bad News, page cxlviii:

On only five occasions did correspondents or reporters appear in the studio without supercaptions; Jones on News Extra, Wain on First Report and Colebourne from the Midlands and Delahaye from the North, Luton and Blackie.

2013, John Eldridge, The Glasgow Media Group Reader, Vol. I, page 272:

(television) An on-screen caption identifying the place and people being shown.


manime

en-noun

manime (countable and uncountable, plural manime or manimes)

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No teacups or "uguu~~~s" here. This panel is pure MANIME!

2015, Neito, “Archived copy”, in Anime Boston, archived from the original on 2023-11-16:

By MANime I mean Yu Yu Hakusho, OG Yu-Gi-Oh!, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
 Gettin' tired of seeing all these grown-ass men buying $200 upskirt figures of high school girls. Gettin' real tired of it.

2013 October 21, Macklemost, “Does anyone here prefer MANime and MANga to the usual crap you see?”, in GameFAQs:

Love and emotions and stuff can be a part of a Manime. Look at Hokuto no Ken if you've ever seen it.

2011 January 12, Ready Start L_Arc, “Manime- Anime for MEN”, in Neoseeker Forums:

(anime, frequently 4chan slang) Anime that is manly.


qHD

Abbreviation
* (1/4 HD): From being approximately 1/4 of high definition video resolution

(video, television, computer graphics) Initialism of quarter high definition (“960x540 pixels”).


GBBS

If Sex Box is a show that sounds shocking but ends up being yawningly jejune, GBBS is the exact opposite: a refined and well-mannered cookery contest that somehow also manages to be a teeming hotbed of smut.

2015 February 26, Sophie Gilbert, “Soggy Bottoms and 'Sex Box': The Saucy State of TV's British Imports”, in The Atlantic:

The Great British Baking Show
w:The Great British Baking Show

(US, television) Initialism of The Great British Baking Show.


Turkish Star Wars

From Turkish + Star Wars, in reference to being a Turkish-language film that became notorious for containing plagiarized clips, music and sound effects from the Star Wars films, among others.

(film) Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam; a Turkish science-fiction film from 1982.


ITYSL

Throughout ITYSL, the office has been a prime setting for unleashing uncomfortable characters who grate against unspoken social codes.

2023 June 17, Amanda Wicks, “A Master Class in How Not to Act at Work”, in The Atlantic:

w:I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson

(television) Initialism of I Think You Should Leave.


musical film

(film, performing arts) A film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.


set dresser

(theater, film, television) A person who prepares the set with props and furniture to give it the correct appearance and to make sure that each item is in the correct position for each performance.


moeshit

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(anime, derogatory) Anime with a focus on the portrayal of moe.


monolight

(theater, film) A self-contained photographic flash lighting unit, typically found in studios.


fringe time

(television) A time period used in television programs to denote the evening television hours that precede and follow the prime time.


Meisner technique

Developed by American theatre practitioner Sanford Meisner.

(acting) An approach to acting in which the actor focuses on the other actors in the immediate environment, rather than on him- or herself.


biodoc

The news comes after Rimes spoke out about their relationship, which broke up their first marriages, on new biodoc “Backstory: LeAnn Rimes,” to air Sunday on US cable channel Great American Country.

2011 April 23, “LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian wed in Los Angeles”, in New York Post:

“Portrait” abounds in the sort of ironies and contrasts that can make a biodoc fascinating even to auds totally unfamiliar with its subject.

2012 September 11, Joe Leydon, “Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp”, in Variety:

The documentarian talks to THR about how he deviated from the typical biodoc playbook and casting Michael J. Fox with Fox in the room.

2023 August 17, Mia Galuppo, “‘Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie’ Director Talks His Approach to the Celebrity Biodoc: “I’m Always Looking for a Very Intimate Connection””, in The Hollywood Reporter:

The comprehensive biodoc – she was much more than Mrs. Johnny Cash – premieres on Paramount+ on Jan. 16.

2024 January 11, Brad Wheeler, “Documentary shines light on country music icon June Carter Cash”, in The Globe and Mail:

(film) a documentary film about a person


remjet

From the traditional process of removing the layer, removal by jets of water, although the layer can be and often is removed chemically.

(photography, cinematography) The anti-halation layer on ECN-2, Kodachrome, and several other types of photographic or motion picture film. It is an opaque black coating on the non-emulsion side of the film that is removed before the development process.


breakfast television

(media, television) Any type of television programming that takes place in the morning, usually around breakfast-time.


flat time

flat time (countable and uncountable, plural flat times)

(film, television) The time during which the camera is not rolling or when no activity is occuring on the set.


equal time

equal time (countable and uncountable, plural equal times)

(US, radio, television) A policy stating that radio and television licensees are required to offer opposing political candidates an equal amount of airtime.


nonsync

Short for nonsynchronous or nonsynchronized.

The great Arri S and M models were workhorses of nonsync filming in the 1970s. They're still great cameras, and you can buy used ones for a pittance. If you're not recording dialogue, they'll be fine. […] If you don't mind windup, spring-driven cameras, the Bolex 16s are good nonsync cameras.

2012, Jack Anderson, Shooting Movies Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot, page 216:

(film) Relating to a soundtrack that is not synchronized with the picture, but played back from a separate medium.


digipaint

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(anime) The use of computer technology to apply color fills to animation cels.


pawjob

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From paw + job, by analogy with terms like footjob and handjob.

Noop whimpered and humped up into the empty air, his tip drooled more precum as he was massaged by the mist surrounding him. He was so lost in the pleasure of the best pawjob he'd ever received that at first, he didn't notice that his legs were slowly being parted.

2004 February 28, FuzzWolf, “[Fur] New Story: "Whisp" [M/M, Fox, ghost, anal]”, in fur.stories.erotica, Google Groups:

Or at the very least mutual pawjobs... cause that doesn't make ya gay!

there's still time to catch a bus, register, and give me a pawjob

2014 September 26, @CaptainErsatz, Twitter:

Any artist that draws Yoshi pawjobs are a favorite of mine. Amazing work!

Damn, imagine what those beans would feel like....
I need a pawjob so bad rn

2024 February 1, u/Klee_In_A_Jar, “waifu everywhere”, in r/japanpeopletwitter, Reddit:

(furry fandom, anime, uncommon) A foot job performed by a furry or humanoid (such as a catgirl/catboy or other animal-human hybrid) using their paws, i.e. fictionally or as part of their fursuit/costume.


tailjob

tailjobs (plural)
tail job (alternative)

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From tail + job, by analogy with terms like handjob.

It DOES have a powerful scripting language, but seriously... what are the chances of someone giving you a lame script which makes you join #dragonrealm and then ask for a tailjob when you're working on your term paper?

1997 August 23, Ryan Tucker, “Crypt Keeper....”, in alt.irc.ircii (Usenet):

wait wat... Miyuri is giving Hisaya a tailjob?!...

Imagine licking her soft smooth tummy 🤤🤤🤤 and rubbing her fluffy ears 🥵🥵🥵 while this hot cutie is giving you a tailjob uoooooohhhhhhh 😭🥵💦😭😭🥵💦😭 I wouldn't last long 😭😭😭💦💦💦

2024 January 14, u/SexWithElysia, “Shun wearing a cat costume”, in r/BlueArchive, Reddit:

(anime slang, furry fandom) A sexual act wherein the genitalia are stimulated by a tail.


screenlife

Screenlife tends to be most interesting to me when it has a found footage feel to it.

Bekmambetov sees Screenlife as an ideal platform for exploring fascinating true-life stories.

2018 September 4, Isaac Feldberg, “'Screenlife' thrillers like Searching are here to stay; here are 9 on the horizon”, in Entertainment Weekly:

It's extremely difficult to procure, but any screenlife completist should make an effort to track down The Collingswood Story, if only to appreciate how far webcam technology has come in two decades.

2021 June 25, Grant Rindner, “The History of Screenlife Films: 10 Key Movies in An Exciting New Genre”, in GQ:

You know, one thing that I kind of think about when I think about this genre and wonder is, for each of you, do you think that screenlife takes a moral stance about the technology that it uses?

2023 January 25, Linda Holmes, Stephen Thompson, “Has the screenlife format of the new thriller 'Missing' gone stale by now?”, in All Things Considered, NPR:

(film) A subgenre or format of film in which the majority of the action is presented via diegetic digital interfaces (such as video calls or instant messages).


sight bite

(television) A brief visual clip used in a news broadcast or similar.


color grading

(film) A post-production process common to filmmaking and video editing of enhancing various attributes of an image such as contrast, color, saturation, detail, black level, and white balance.


frontcap

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


zombie box

A possible calque of Russian зомбоящик (zombojaščik).

calque

taking a form more frequently thought of as anathematical to poetry (Iain Chrichton Smith, for example, lambasted the TV as a deadening zombie box in "At the TV") and seeing in it parallels and possibilities.

2002, Galloway Kyle, Harold Monro, Stephen Phillips (editors), Poetry Review, Volume 92, page 60:

Nichelle was wary as she set purse and a couple of small shopping bags on the table. "Great. Thanks?" He didn't say anything else, just kept watching the zombie box.

2014, Chris Marie Green, Another One Bites the Dust, page 202:

More contemporary Russian fears are centered on the ability of mass media to essentially colonize human consciousness, turning the individual into a function of the "zombie-box" (or TV), as is the case in Viktor Pelevin's Generation П.

2020, Keith A. Livers, Conspiracy Culture, Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination, page 23:

(slang, derogatory, television, uncommon) A television.


time stretching

(film, photography) A type of slow motion editing achieved during post-production by inserting new frames in between frames that have actually been photographed.


legacyquel

Blend of legacy + sequel. Coined by film reviewer Matt Singer in 2015 (see quotation below).

coinage

Though there are still occasional reboots or prequels, this very specific kind of sequel — in which beloved aging stars reprise classic roles and pass the torch to younger successors — is becoming increasingly common in the American film industry. These movies are all about revitalizing old franchises through the notion of legacy, leading to this current wave of what we could call "legacyquels."

2015 November 23, Matt Singer, “Welcome to the Age of the Legacyquel”, in ScreenCrush, archived from the original on 2024-03-02:

Jurassic World, in a phenomenon some are now calling the "legacyquel" or the "legacy franchise", incorporated nod after nod to its 1993 progenitor – and (see below) was far from the only one in that game in 2015.

2015 December 29, Phil Hoad, “Jurassic World and the 'legacyquel': 2015 global box office in review”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-09:

Top Gun: Maverick is not only the latest of these legacyquels, but one of the best, passing the baton from original star Tom Cruise to a new generation of actors while confidently—even definitively—reminding audiences what made Cruise so goddamn great in the first place.

2022 May 31, Todd Gilchrist, “From Top Gun: Maverick to Crystal Skull, the 5 best—and 5 worst—legacyquels of all time”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2023-09-21:

(film, neologism) A sequel to a classic movie which features the original star "passing the torch" to a cast of new younger actors.


SATC

Reminds me of wise (and show-defining) words that came not from SATC’s lead Carrie, but its underestimated backbone, Charlotte: “Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”

2024 April 5, Alaina Demopoulos, “Sex and the City is on Netflix. Perfect – gen Z are a bunch of Charlottes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(television) Initialism of Sex and the City.


OANN

They added, “OANN’s internal and external discussions about the Stolen Passwords represent circumstantial evidence that OANN intended to harm Smartmatic and intended to undermine people’s confidence in the 2020 election.”

2024 February 7, Marshall Cohen, “Pro-Trump network OAN’s president solicited more info after receiving ‘stolen’ Smartmatic passwords, court documents allege”, in CNN:

While these fights may offer immediate political wins, the world does not live and die by the rhythms of American news cycles or the alternative reality of Fox News and OANN.

2025 February 9, Ben Rhodes, “This Isn’t the Donald Trump America Elected”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

One America News Network
w:One America News Network

(US television) Initialism of One America News Network.


OAN

Napoli said he has never seen a US president promote a network like OAN while launching a sustained assault on credible news organizations.

2020 May 8, Oliver Darcy, “Meet OAN, the little-watched right-wing news channel that Trump keeps promoting”, in CNN:

(television) Initialism of One America News.


Odagiri effect

Named after Japanese actor Joe Odagiri, who starred in the 2000 tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Kuuga.

(television) A television phenomenon in which a program attracts a larger than expected number of women viewers because the program stars attractive male actors or characters.


lit flick

The young Tom Eliot (played by Willem Dafoe) walked upon a beach in the recent Lit-Flick TOM & VIV. I saw no peaches eaten.

1995 September 7, Ted Samsel, “Prufrock question”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet):

You must be waiting with baited breath for the lit-flick (humorous) about Jacquelyn Susann writing THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.

2000 February 2, Ted Samsel, “Literary Criticism -- why has it gotten weird and is it getting more normal”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet):

Seeing the book (and, to a lesser extent, the film) advertised gives me a strong sense that it’s chick lit/flick material.

2008 May 16, Sandro, “movie review: The Other Boleyn Girl”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet):

Jeff Clanagan, who ran Master P's, No Limit Films at the time, was responsible for figuring out how to get the dimly lit flick into theaters.

2008, Vibe, volume 16, numbers 1-16, page 100:

She's not a genius like the others—far from it—and she already has her man (poor Dash), but Julia, based on Hellman’s barefaced fabrications in Pentimento, gives us several of the essential conceits of the lit-flick genre. To begin with, she too has writer's block.

2011, Robert Gottlieb, Lives and Letters, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 374:

Critique of the costume drama in many of its guises - period drama, lit flick, frock flick, historical film, heritage film, adaptation, costume series - has often emphasized its conservatism and the lack of dynamism in its audience.

2015, Jerome De Groot, Remaking History: The Past in Contemporary Historical Fictions, Taylor & Francis, page 185:

By portraying the successful defense against criminal obscenity charges for a poem that celebrates queer sex, Epstein and Friedman’s “lit flick” arguably renders a poetics of the unrepressed, paving the way for a new queer political aesthetic.

2016, Casey Charles, Critical Queer Studies: Law, Film, and Fiction in Contemporary American Culture, Taylor & Francis, page 171:

(slang, film, television) A film based on a literary work.


B-reel

en-noun

B-reel (usually uncountable, plural B-reels)

The separate reels of a multiple-chain story are given letter designations: A-reel, B-reel, C-reel.

[1969, Maury Green, Television News: Anatomy and Process, page 120:

The story usually (but by no means always) opens with an A-reel shot of the reporter who by narration establishes the shot. Then picture and sound move to the second chain (B-reel) to show actuality, the actuality picture sometimes being bridged at some points by the sound of narration on the A-reel.

1969, Maury Green, Television News: Anatomy and Process, page 135:

Begin matching the original with the work print by placing the first shot of the original on one reel (the “A” reel) and the second shot on another reel (the “B” reel). Continue alternating from the A reel to the B reel as you conform.

1974, George Glenn, Super 8 Handbook, page 176:

When the timing goes from a B reel to an A reel, the composer should be aware of how to write for this situation. The music in the outgoing reel should end at the end of the reel.

1980, Milton Lustig, Music Editing for Motion Pictures, page 38:

(television, film, music) The second piece of film or audio or video tape in a situation (as editing or broadcasting) where multiple inputs are used.

Now I remembered that Murph had convinced us not to show the first B reel during our viewing of the full takes, saying that we’d seen it before.

1991, Jim Weikart, Casualty Loss, page 151:

Lela was saddled with a cameraman, shooting “B-Reel” somewhere in the fairgrounds. Theoretically, that should slow her down and make her easier to catch.

2005, Melissa M. Dudek, Catchers, Cows, & Nachos, page 46:

I’m very weak. Everything takes effort. We spend the morning filming some B-reel and transferring footage, which leaves us both feeling wiped out, so we withdraw for a little midday tent time.

2019, Dianne Whelan, Base Camp: 40 Days on Everest, page 95:

(television, film) Secondary or supplemental footage to be intercut with principle film or video.


fade time

fade time (countable and uncountable, plural fade times)

(film, television) The amount of time for a scene to fade to dark after lighting up.


funwashing

Unknown origin, likely emerged around 2023.

Actually Fun-Washing and (sur) reality tv had a role in projecting Anne Widdecombe as a ‘national treasure’.

2023 November 30, Mike Small, “Fun-Washing Fascism”, in Bella Caledonia:

(television, neologism) The practice of someone taking part in a popular event or show, appearing on television, etc. as a way to improve their reputation with the public.


light engineering

(film, television, theater) The technical discipline of the installation of lighting equipment and its utility on a set.


timeshift channel

timeshift channel (plural timeshift channels)

(television, broadcasting) A television channel carrying time-delayed reruns of its parent channel's programming.


time compression

time compression (countable and uncountable, plural time compressions)

(film, television) The rendering of a video or a video clip of a shorter duration than real time.


time series animation

time series animation (countable and uncountable, plural time series animations)

time series animations (plural)
time-series animation (alternative)

(film, television, cartography) The depiction or presentation of different events or incidents in a chronological or sequential order according to a particular attribute.


frame time

frame time (countable and uncountable, plural frame times)

frame times (plural)
frametime (alternative)

(film, television, photography) The total amount of time required for a single frame to be displayed on the screen, measured in seconds.


girls with guns

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(film, anime) A subgenre of action films that portray a female protagonist engaged in shootouts, often involving gunplay, stunts and martial arts action.


front projection

front projection (countable and uncountable, plural front projections)

Coordinate term: back projection

(film) A cinematic technique in which live action is filmed in front of a highly reflective screen, so that the background image is projected onto both the performer and the screen with the help of a one-way mirror angled at 45 degrees.


color timing

color timing (countable and uncountable, plural color timings)

(film, photography) The process of adjusting the amount of red, green, and blue light used to create a film positive from a film negative in an analog film lab.


back-timing

(radio, television, media) A technique used in radio, television, and mass media to calculate the amount of remaining time before an event or task ends, by counting down backwards from the end of the program, in order to ensure that the event concludes on time or within a specific time limit.


anisong

anisong (countable and uncountable, plural anisongs)

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From Japanese アニソン (anison), from アニ(メ) (anime) + ソン(グ) (songu), itself from English anime song. Equivalent to a blend of anime + song.

Another popular otaku cuisine is "Anisong" bars and karaoke. These bars and karaoke places offer a wide range of anime and manga-related songs and music videos, making them popular spots for otaku to gather and sing along to the songs from their favorite anime and manga series.

(Can we date this quote?), Claire Austin, Otaku Odyssey: Uncovering the Anime and Manga Subculture in Japan, T Turner, page 22:

Moving on, most, if not all, Japanese animations come with a unique opening (theme) and ending (theme) that belong to this genre called Anisong (short for Animation music/song). Although not actually knowing the lyrics of these songs back then, constantly listening to those catchy tunes caused a continuous growth in the interest I have in the Japanese popular culture.

2016 November 28, Tai Wei Lim, Merlion And Mt. Fuji: 50 Years Of Singapore-Japan Relations, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, page 220:

“Have no worries on that front,” Juna assured me. “She’s been singing sea shanties while out fishing, so she has a powerful voice, one that’s both feminine and masculine, and if you give her a cool song to sing, she can easily outdo me. I believe she’s a good match for those ‘anisongs’ you taught me, sire.”

2017 August 3, Dojyomaru, translated by Sean McCann, edited by Emily Sorensen, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, volume 3, J-Novel Club, page 20:

I study Japanese. My main study materials are anime and manga. Also, anisong and J-Pop. Then I read Japanese novels. I study.

2018 October, Ao Jyumonji, translated by Sean McCann, edited by Emily Sorensen, Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash, volume 11, J-Novel Club, page 157:

A bubbly person like Jun could easily party along with Reina and the girls, and also feel right at home doing a 100 Anisong Marathon with Kai. Kai definitely wasn’t a ‘party’ kind of guy, though! He had no idea what songs were popular. All he could sing were songs from anime.

2021 January 7, Akamitsu Awamura, translated by Kristine Johnson and airco, edited by Jennifer Sherman, She's the Cutest... But We're Just Friends!, volume 1, J-Novel Club, page 151:

(fandom slang, anime) An anime song; anime music.


zap over

en-verb

zap over (third-person singular simple present zaps over, present participle zapping over, simple past and past participle zapped over)

zaps over (present singular third-person)
zapping over (participle present)
zapped over (participle past)
zapped over (past)

(transitive, television) To change television channels, especially rapidly.


Wendersian

As he elaborates the tale, we have a classic Wendersian mise-en-scène. Travis drives, and the sequence is filmed from his point of view, looking forwards out of the front windscreen of the car.

1996 March, Thomas Docherty, “Discourse and Figure: The Resistance of/to Cinema” (chapter 7), in Alterities: Criticism, History, Representation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →DOI, page 163:

(film) Of or pertaining to Wim Wenders (born 1945), German filmmaker and playwright.


Y&R

The Young and the Restless
w:The Young and the Restless

(television) Initialism of The Young and the Restless: an American television soap opera first broadcast in 1973.


OLTL

(television) Initialism of One Life to Live: an American television soap opera broadcast from 1968 to 2013.


lockoff

A shot in which the camera changes position, via a pan, dolly, truck, crane, and/or boom, during the filming of aciton. Opposite of a lockoff shot.

2001, Karen Goulekas, Visual Effects in a Digital World, page 325:

In my experience, a completely static shot is more noticeable than a shot that makes subtle adjustments for things like headroom, which is essentially what you're talking about. I think most of the time those slight adjustments are needed to keep a shot properly composed, but when you do do a complete lockoff it stands out and can have a nice effect.

2008 October 20, Brad Grimmett, “Operated camera vs. locked off shots”, in cinematography.com:

But for a rack, unlock the focus channel, lock the rest of the channels (assuming this is a lockoff shot—racks usually are), and then solve for the lens.

2013, Erica Hornung, The Art and Technique of Matchmoving, page 90:

The dance is performed in succession in a lockoff shot.

2016 June 13, Ian Smith, “Annabelle Serpentine Dance is the world’s first hand-tinted motion from 1895, and it’s quite spectacular”, in The Vintage News:

(film) A type of shot in which the camera is fixed to a mount and unable to move.


category fraud

(film, entertainment) The practice of an actor or actress campaigning for an award category that does not accurately reflect their prominence in a film or television show.


super deformed

Borrowed from Japanese スーパーデフォルメ (sūpādeforume), from スーパー (sūpā, “super-”) + デフォルメ (deforume, “stylistic distortion”).

ja-r

superdeformed (alternative)
SD (alternative)

(anime, manga) In Japanese caricature, drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby, with stubby limbs and oversized heads.


cannon roll

(film) A type of stunt in the early days of cinema in which a roll is induced by turning the car sharply and firing a piston into the ground from the underside of the car.


2.5D musical

Coined by Makoto Matsuda in 2014, when he established the Japan 2.5-Dimensional Musical Association.

(theater, drama) A type of modern Japanese musical theater production which adapts stories originally presented in a two-dimensional medium (anime, manga, or video games).


film score

(film, music) Original music that is written specifically to accompany a film.


race film

en-noun

race film (countable and uncountable, plural race films)

(film) A genre of film produced in the United States between about 1915 and the early 1950s, consisting of films produced for black audiences, and featuring black casts; any such film.


visual effects

visual effects pl (normally plural, singular visual effect)

(film) The totality of techniques in filmmaking and video production by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of live-action shots.


single-minded branding moment

single-minded branding moment (usually uncountable, plural single-minded branding moments)

(television, marketing) A moment in a commercial where the brand being advertised is the sole focus of the audience's attention.


VSYNC

(television) Abbreviation of vertical synchronization.


technical rehearsal

technical rehearsal (countable and uncountable, plural technical rehearsals)

(music, film, theater) A rehearsal that focuses on the technological aspects of the performance, such as lighting and stage arrangement.


shot-on-video

(film, television) Of a film, shot using camcorders and consumer-grade equipment.


tail slate

(television, film) Synonym of end board.


end slate

end slates (plural)
endslate (alternative)


Arceism

Beyond those holidays, Arceism should be celebrated by one's own interpretation.

Arceus is ironically worshipped within the Pokémon community, as in the Facebook Page “Arceism” naming a fictional religion centered around it [6].

2023, Suraj Sood, “The Augmented Cognition of Religion and Spirituality in Media”, in Augmented Cognition:

In mainstream Arceism, Arceus is regarded as the creator of all Pokemon, Ghost-types included.

2024 November 28, ElSquibbonator, Reddit:

new religious movement
new religious movement

(fandom slang, video games, anime, manga) A parody religion or new religious movement based on the Pokémon franchise, centered on the veneration of Arceus, a creator deity in the canon of the series.


tally light

(television) A light on a video camera indicating that it is actively filming.


VBI

(television) Initialism of vertical blanking interval.


barker channel

(television) A television channel consisting of only sales promotion and advertising, usually marketing various features of the service carrying the channel.


cable puller

(television) An employee responsible for the management and setup of cables.


XLS

(television) Initialism of extra-long shot.


live on tape

(television) Produced like a live broadcast (in one take with little or no editing), but recorded to be broadcast later.


flipover

(television) A screen wipe effect resembling the turning of the page of a book.


shot box

The zoom lenses on many studio cameras have shot boxes that can electronically memorize several preselected zoom speed and focal length settings.

1996, Ron Whittaker, Video Field Production, page 107:

(film, television) A video camera attachment for controlling and storing lens settings.


pinkface

From pink + face, by analogy with blackface.

(informal, film, television) The use of a straight actor to play an LGBT role or character.


monster girl

Calque of Japanese モンスター娘 (monsutā musume).

calque

(anime and manga) A fictional female character who shares visual traits with a monster.

monstermeisje

fictional female character with monster traits


monster boy

Gender inversion of monster girl, which is a calque of Japanese モンスター娘 (monsutā musume).

(anime and manga) A fictional male character who shares visual traits with a monster.

hirviöpoika

fictional male character with monster traits


fill light

(film, television, photography, theater) A light that may be used to reduce the contrast of a scene to match the dynamic range of the recording media and capture the amount of detail typically seen by eye in average conditions.


eye bounce

Media coaches recommend that speakers on TV programs use eye bounce, in which the eyes do not move horizontally. Instead, the speaker first looks down […]

2006, Richard Weiner, Charles M. Levine, The Skinny about Best Boys, Dollies, Green Rooms, Leads, and Other Media Lingo, page 27:

(television, slang) The practice of lowering one's eyes before gazing left or right, to avoid a shifty expression on camera.


direct cinema

(film) A documentary genre that originated around 1960 in North America, involving lightweight portable filming equipment, hand-held cameras, and live synchronous sound.


tell story

(radio, television) A report read out by an announcer, without additional audio or video footage.


deep focus

(photography, film) The technique of using a large depth of field, so that the foreground, middle ground and background are all in focus.


over-record

en-verb

over-record (third-person singular simple present over-records, present participle over-recording, simple past and past participle over-recorded)

over-records (present singular third-person)
over-recording (participle present)
over-recorded (participle past)
over-recorded (past)
overrecord (alternative)

(transitive, also music, film, television) To record excessively or too frequently.


over-record

over-records (plural)
overrecord (alternative)

In an off-line editing session, an edit is often made longer than it will be in the final show. The following edit will usually erase the tail of such an edit. The erased portion of the edit is called an overrecord.

1993, Steven E. Browne, Videotape Editing: A Postproduction Primer (page 280)

(television, film) A portion of film that is erased by recording over it.


still store

Such enormous changes have a great impact on still stores where, in many cases, systems have run with less than optimum storage.

1992 07, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, SMPTE Journal: Publication of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers:

Let me read the letter. Put that up on still store, Cambot.

1994, “Code Name: Diamond Head”, in Mystery Science Theater 3000, Michael Nelson (actor):

He or she literally calls the shots and cues in items to be transmitted live on still store and videotape. The still store is used to hold still pictures that have been digitized, allowing them to be cropped and edited.

2000 October 27, Andrew Boyd, Broadcast Journalism, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 380:

(television) A device that stores and processes still images to insert them into a television broadcast stream.


MVPD

(television) Initialism of multichannel video programming distributor.


peoplemeter

peoplemeters (plural)
people meter (alternative)

These machines could not indicate if anyone was actually sitting in front of the TV watching it. But new machines called peoplemeters can tell which members of the family are watching […]

1990, Lynne S. Gross, The New Television Technologies, page 7:

[…] a peoplemeter-like box to measure viewing […]

2013, James Webster, Patricia Phalen, Lawrence Lichty, Ratings Analysis: Audience Measurement and Analytics (page 33)

(television) A device installed in a household to track which occupants watch which television shows, for the purpose of measuring viewing habits in the population.


VIRS

(television) Initialism of vertical interval reference signal.


VITS

(television) Initialism of vertical interval test signal.


clock wipe

(television) A screen wipe effect that moves in a clockwise or anticlockwise circle, like the hand of a clock.


two-shot

(television) A talking head shot of two people together.


three-shot

(television) A talking head shot of three people together.


network television

Now that we have TV let's watch some network television.

(media, television) The distribution of television content through a network of affilated stations.


squeeze zoom

(television) A zoom in to a window of content so that it gradually fills the screen.


barn door wipe

(television) A screen wipe effect that moves in from opposite sides of the screen.


television white

(television) The brightest white typically achievable by a television camera.


television black

(television) The darkest black typically achievable by a television camera.


mini-microwave

(television, attributive) A system in which a video signal is transmitted to the studio by one or more intermediate (possibly mobile) transmitters.


trade-show

trade-show (third-person singular simple present trade-shows, present participle trade-showing, simple past and past participle trade-showed)

trade-shows (present singular third-person)
trade-showing (participle present)
trade-showed (participle past)
trade-showed (past)

(transitive, film, uncommon) To showcase a film to people involved with its purchasing or distributing.


screenoscope

(film, historical) A large screen for an auditorium, with moving parts allowing its shape to be changed for a more immersive viewing experience.


roll tape

roll tape (third-person singular simple present rolls tape, present participle rolling tape, simple past and past participle rolled tape)

rolls tape (present singular third-person)
rolling tape (participle present)
rolled tape (participle past)
rolled tape (past)
roll the tape (alternative)

(informal, idiomatic, film, television, media) To begin recording or playing back audio or video material.


debris mortar

(film) A device used to create special effects by forcing pressurized air or gas through a tube to propel material into the scene (dirt, glass, fake blood, etc.) with a bursting or splattering effect.


branchaloris

(television, film) A leafy branch fixed in front of a light to produce shadows in the shape of foliage.


poolout

(advertising, television) Any of several similar variants of a commercial.


Ku truck

In reference to the Kᵤ band used for satellite communications.

(television) A truck with a satellite dish mounted on top, used to transmit news broadcasts from the location of an event.


SnorriCam

SnorriCams (plural)
snorricam (alternative)

From Icelandic Snorri + cam(era), named after two Icelandic photographers and directors, Einar Snorri and Eiður Snorri Eysteinsson.

Harry convinces Marion to have sex with her psychiatrist in exchange for money to buy drugs, and when she is leaving the man's apartment she is filmed with a SnorriCam, the lens facing her directly.

2017, Tarja Laine, Bodies in Pain: Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 61:

(film) A camera device used in filmmaking that is rigged to the body of the actor, with the camera facing the actor.


TLOU

Don’t be put off by the mushroom monsters – this is a fully realised human parable, with TLOU evolving into a brutal, passionate, post-apocalyptic western par excellence.

2023 January 22, Barbara Ellen, “The week in TV: The Last of Us; Maternal; The Traitors US; Break Point”, in The Observer:

The Last of Us
w:The Last of Us (franchise)

(video games, television) Initialism of The Last of Us.


high-concept

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PIE word
 *ḱóm
From high (adjective) + concept (noun).

korkeakonseptinen

of a work: based on an appealing and easily communicable idea; of or relating to such a work

A high concept show has something that somebody could recognize in the title and would want to see. […] Elvis Presley and pills are the highest concept you could get. There are three people who are so high concept that you can live off them – Elvis, Jackie Onassis and Liz Taylor.

1979 October 2, Joan Hanauer, quoting Paul L. Klein, “Exec sees ‘concepts’ as key to ratings battle”, in Mort Pye, editor, The Star-Ledger, volume 66, number 218, Newark, N.J.: S[amuel] I[rving] Newhouse [Sr.], →OCLC, page C [between 35 and 36], columns 2–3:

One might argue that Groundhog Day is a "high-concept" film. […] For many, a high-concept film is distinguished by its ease of summary. As Steven Spielberg puts it, "If a person can tell me the idea in 25 words or less, it's going to make a pretty good movie. I like ideas, especially movie ideas, that you can hold in your hand."

1999, Kristin Thompson, “Groundhog Day”, in Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 153:

Yet for all its casual mayhem, Free Guy turns out to be a rather cuddly crowdpleaser, a high-concept blockbuster trifle with bubblegum ice cream clogging its circuits.

2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds Action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite Age”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2023-04-19:

(film, literature, television, sometimes derogatory) Of a work such as a book, film, or television programme: based on an appealing and easily communicable idea; also, of or relating to such a work.

high concept

attested slightly later than the adjective


Hollywood on the Tiber

(film) The Italian capital city of Rome as a major location for international filmmaking, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s.


gainaxing

From Gainax + -ing, from the company's tendency to depict breasts in such a way.

There is no gainaxing seen in the game though.

1996 October 2, Chia Jin Ngee, “VF3: Funny moments”, in rec.games.video.arcade (Usenet):

According to a Usenet post from 1993, one particular busty young woman from the Gainax anime Otaku no Video inspired a tongue-in-cheek unit of measurement for Gainaxing: one full bounce is apparently equal to one "Misty May". Ironically, it started as an attempt to animate more realistic movement of breasts before getting out of hand by the 1990s.

2007 May 2, TVTropes, archived from the original on 2007-05-02:

It wouldn't be Gainax with out some Gainaxing! #anime.

豆知识，“乳摇”，尤其指两边摇动方向不同的乳摇，翻译成英文是“Gainaxing”。（所以说这些人造的什么孽哟

Douban knowledge, "breast shaking", especially the shaking of breasts on both sides in different directions, is translated into English as "Gainaxing". (So what kind of evil are these people creating?

Dòu zhīshì,“rǔ yáo”, yóuqí zhǐ liǎngbiān yáodòng fāngxiàng bùtóng de rǔ yáo, fānyì chéng yīngwén shì “Gainaxing”.(Suǒyǐ shuō zhèxiē rénzào de shénme niè yō

Gainaxing should be a staple in any form of media. Games, movies, animation. It fills me with joy.

2024 June 11, @thatdudecalled1, Twitter:

(humorous) excessive shaking of animated breasts, often large.


moral event horizon

en-noun

moral event horizon (plural moral event horizons)

(film, literature) A pivotal moment in a story when a character commits an act so heinous that it renders them irredeemably evil in the eyes of the audience and other characters.


production manager

production manager (plural production managers)


kitchen sink realism

(theater, television) A British cultural movement that emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s, characterized by its depiction of the gritty, often bleak, realities of working-class life.


operalogue

(film, dated) A simplified film version of an opera.


safety area

(television, film) The outer portion of film that will not be visible on the screen.