SOME TERMS USED IN FILM ANALYSIS

(Some occur as technical terms as well)

Aspect ratio
chiaroscuro
code
continuity error
deep/shallow focus
diegesis (diegetic)
direct address
first person narration
foregrounding
formalism/realism/expressionism
gaze
genre
hermeneutics
homage/citation
intertextuality
mise en scene
narrative
nonlinear narration
playing against type
sartorial code
scopophilia
set piece
source lighting
specularize
symbol
text/subtext
trope/motif
variable

Basic subtext areas

socio-political
psycho-sexual
religious
scientific-technolohical
reflexivity