TERMS

(These may be added to from time to time)

Genre: A type of film. It usually has both a narrative and filmic aspects associetes with it.

Scopophila: A desire to see or to look out, but usually without the psycho-sexual implications of voteurism.

Specularization: Something made in a film to gratify the scopophilia of the viewers. In moster films, the mnonster is specularized (or made into a spectacle). In some sci-fi films technology is specularized

Set piece: A scene or "pece" in a film that shows off some particular bit of the film - often acting.

Trope/Motif: AN element that has meaning and occurs repeatedly in a film or genre Intertextuality: reading between films so that knowledge or information from one film is used in another by the viewer.

Homage: A "salute" to another film maker by "citing" one of their scenes. Sometimes thought of as "I ran out of creative ideas here so let em steal from someone else".

Type: A kind od character generally played by actor in different films which has some consistancy to it. The audience may come to expect that kind of character when the actor appears in a film. Actors sometimes play "against type" where they suddenly play a character which is different from audiecne expectations.

Test: the "plot" what goes on in the story line.

Subtext: An underlying meaning or theme that is derived from the text.

Narration: The order in which information is presented to the audience. Narration may be linear or non linear.

Hermeneutics: "code breaking" in the sense of understanding the meaning of a text or sub text,