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Foley Art is a form of sound design, which involves creating or reproducing everyday sound effects added in post-production to enhance the audio quality of films. Application: Generating realistic and enhanced soundscapes for films.

Cinematography is the art and science of making motion picture photography. It involves the composition, framing, lighting, and camera movement. Application: Crafting visual storytelling to enhance the emotional impact on an audience.

The 360-Degree Rule in filmmaking maintains that the camera should move around subjects no more than 180 degrees to maintain spatial continuity from shot to shot. Application: Preventing confusion in the audience's sense of spatial orientation.

Film Theory encompasses a broad range of approaches towards the understanding and analysis of film and cinema, from formal to psychoanalytic perspectives. Application: Providing frameworks to interpret films' meanings and effects.

Apparatus Theory explores the ideological effects cinema has on viewers through its technology and institutions, considering film as a political medium. Application: Understanding the influence of cinematic techniques on viewer perception.

Ethnic Studies and Film examines the representation and impact of ethnic identities in cinema, and how films can propagate or challenge ethnic stereotypes. Application: Promoting cultural diversity and challenging racism in the portrayal of ethnic characters.

Mise-en-scène refers to the arrangement of everything that appears in the framing – actors, lighting, décor, props, costume – and is considered a critical component of the cinematic narrative. Application: Analyzing how a scene's visual elements contribute to storytelling.

Montage is a film editing technique that involves piecing together a series of frames to form a continuous sequence, often used to condense time and information. Application: Showing the progression of a character's journey without depicting real-time passage.

Neo-realism is a post-WWII film movement originating in Italy, emphasizing a documentary style of storytelling with non-professional actors and real locations. Application: Highlighting everyday human struggles and social issues.

Non-diegetic sound is audio that is not heard by the characters in the film and is used for dramatic effect, such as a film score or narrator's commentary. Application: Enhancing emotional responses or providing exposition.

Queer Theory analyses films to challenge normative notions of sexuality and identity and to highlight LGBTQ+ perspectives within cinema. Application: Questioning traditional narratives and showcasing diverse sexual identities.

Auteur Theory suggests that a film reflects the director's personal creative vision, as if they were the primary 'auteur' (the French term for 'author'). Application: Analyzing films through the consistent signatures of a director's style.

Ideological Analysis in film studies looks at the movies as social artifacts that reflect, perpetuate, or challenge dominant ideologies. Application: Examining how films influence or critique cultural beliefs and power structures.

The French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) was a movement in the 1950s and '60s characterized by radical experimentation with filming and narrative techniques. Application: Influencing modern filmmaking and encouraging stylistic innovation.

Eco-cinema Theory analyzes the depiction of environmental issues and nature in film, and how cinema can contribute to ecological awareness. Application: Advocating for environmental conservation through filmic narratives.

Film Criticism involves the analysis and evaluation of films generally categorized in journalistic essay writing for publications. Application: Informing audiences and influencing the public perception of cinema.

Film genre refers to the categorization of films based on shared themes, narrative structures, or visual styles. Genres help establish audience expectations. Application: Guiding production aesthetics and marketing strategies.

Cognitive Film Theory explores how viewers understand and emotionally respond to films based on cognitive processes. Application: Investigating viewer's comprehension and emotional engagement with narratives.

Structuralism is an analytical approach focusing on underlying structures in cultural products like films, especially the systems of relationships. Application: Decoding the universal patterns and meanings within films.

Continuity Editing is a film editing style that creates a sense of seamless narrative progression, often used to maintain a coherent time and space in a movie. Application: Ensuring logical flow within scenes and between shots.

Colonial and Postcolonial Theory looks at films through the context of colonialism and its aftermath, analyzing how cinema depicts the interactions between colonizers and colonized. Application: Showcasing cultural narratives and voices from postcolonial societies in cinema.

Feminist Film Theory examines films through the lens of feminist theory to understand the representation of gender and the role of women in cinema. Application: Critiquing gender stereotypes and advocating for equal representation.

Marxist Film Theory views films through a Marxist lens, analyzing how cinema represents class struggle and can be used to promote or criticize capitalist systems. Application: Exploring the portrayal of socio-economic issues in cinema.

Transmedia Storytelling refers to the technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies. Application: Creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience.

Diegetic sound refers to any audio that emanates from the film's world and is audible to the characters within that world. Application: Adding realism to the film's environment by including background noises natural to the scene.

Formalist film theory emphasizes the formal aspects of cinema—narrative structure, visual style, and editing techniques—as key to understanding a film's meaning. Application: Analyzing films through their artistic form and construction.

Film Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols in movies and how they convey meaning. Application: Deciphering the symbolic language and messages within a film.

Cultural Studies Theory in film examines how films reflect, influence, and are influenced by culture and society. Application: Studying the portrayal and impact of films on social norms and values.

Narratology refers to the study of narrative structure and how it affects our perception and interpretation of film. Application: Exploring the form and mechanics of story construction within cinema.

Psychological Film Theory investigates the psychological implications in a film's narrative and how cinema affects and reflects an individual's mind. Application: Interpreting character motivations and the psychological impact on audiences.

Screen Theory combines psychoanalysis and feminism to explore issues of gender and ideology in relation to the concept of the cinematic gaze. Application: Examining how visual pleasure is constructed and experienced in film.

Humanist Film Theory focuses on film narratives as expressions of human values, emotions, and existential concerns. Application: Analyzing the ethical and philosophical questions raised in cinema.

Post-structuralism critiques and expands on structuralism, emphasizing the fluidity of meaning and the limitations of binary oppositions in texts and films. Application: Challenging established structures and exploring diverse interpretations of films.