Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| auteurist | a film director whose practice accords with the auteur theory. |
| biopic | a film telling the life-story of a celebrity. |
| bioscope | a form of cinematograph. |
| blaxploitation | exploitation of black people, esp in the American film industry, by casting them in negative, stereotypical roles. |
| chiller | a frightening film. |
| chopsocky | a genre of martial arts films. |
| cine | a motion picture. |
| cineast | (Fr.) one who takes an artistic interest in motion pictures. |
| cineaste | (Fr.) one who takes artistic interest in motion pictures. |
| cinemagoer | one who attends the cinema. |
| cinematic | relating to the cinema. |
| cinematically | (Adv.) CINEMATIC, related to the cinema. |
| cinematise | to produce for the cinema. |
| cinematize | to produce for the cinema. |
| cinematograph | a motion-picture camera, projector, theater, or show; (verb) to record by cinematograph. |
| cinematographer | a specialist in cinematography. |
| cinematographic | relating to cinematography. |
| cinematography | the art or science of motion-picture photography. |
| cinephile | a lover of the cinema. |
| cineplex | (Tradename) a number of cinemas on one site. |
| cineramic | relating to Cinerama®, a method of film projection used in the cinema. |
| clapperboard | a hinged board (or a set of hinged boards) clapped together in front of the camera before or after shooting a piece of film, to help synchronize sound and vision. |
| deepie | (Coll.) a three-dimensional cinematograph film. |
| docudrama | a play or film representing real events. |
| featurette | a brief feature, esp a short documentary film dealing with an aspect of the making of a feature film and included on a DVD of the feature film. |
| film | a thin coating; (verb) to make a motion picture > FILMINGS |
| filmable | that can be filmed. |
| filmdom | the cinema industry. |
| filmer | one who films. |
| filmgoing | the practice of going to films. |
| filmic | pertaining to the cinema. |
| filmically | (Adv.) FILMIC, pertaining to the cinema. |
| filmish | having a flavour of the cinema. |
| filmland | the cinema industry. |
| filmmaking | the making of films. |
| filmography | a list of the films of a particular actor or director. |
| flashback | in a film, novel, etc, a scene of the past, inserted as comment or explanation; (verb) to show a flashback. |
| fleapit | (Sl.) a low-class cinema. |
| foley | the technique of adding sound effects to a cinema film after it has been shot. |
| footage | an amount of TV or camera film. |
| gargantua | a monster in a Japanese film. |
| gorefest | a movie featuring much bloodshed. |
| gorehound | an enthusiast of gory horror films. |
| grindhouse | a type of cinema that deals with sleazy dancing. |
| grosser | a film etc. that brings in a (big etc.) sum of money. |
| intercut | to insert a scene or shot into (an existing scene); to alternate (shots from different scenes). |
| keyframe | the frozen image in an animation sequence. |
| kidult | (Sl.) a film or video for an adult or child audience. |
| kidvid | a television or video entertainment for children. |
| kinema | cinema. |
| kinematic | relating to the kinema. |
| kinematical | relating to the kinema. |
| kinematically | (Adv.) KINEMATICAL, relating to the kinema. |
| kinematograph | an apparatus for filming, printing and projecting a series of instantaneous photographs so as to give a moving representation of a scene. |
| kinematographer | one who operates a kinematograph. |
| kinematography | the art of the kinematograph. |
| kinescope | (Tradename) a cathode ray tube for a television; a motion picture made from an image on this; (verb) to make a kinescope. |
| kinetograph | an early form of cinematograph camera. |
| klieg | a kind of electric lamp used in filming. |
| lens | a piece of transparent matter with one or both surfaces curved to cause regular convergence or divergence of rays passing through it; (verb) to make a film of. |
| maltese | as in maltese cross, a mechanism providing intermittent frame-by-frame movement in a motion picture film projector. |
| movie | a motion picture. |
| moviedom | the world of the movies. |
| moviegoing | attendance at the movies. |
| moviemaker | one who makes movies. |
| moviemaking | the act of making movies. |
| mutoscope | an early form of cinematograph. |
| nickelodeon | an early form of cinema. |
| nudie | (Sl.) a film featuring nudity. |
| oater | a Wild West film, a horse-opera. |
| offscreen | in a film, not actually shown on the screen. |
| outtake | a film scene dropped in final version; (verb, obs.) to take out, to except. |
| phenakistoscope | an early form of cinematograph. |
| photoplay | a motion picture. |
| picturegoer | one who goes to the cinema. |
| pixilation | a technique for making human figures and animals appear to be animated eg by the use of stop-frame methods. |
| pixillation | a technique for making human figures and animals appear to be animated artificially, eg by the use of stop-frame camera techniques. |
| policier | a film featuring police investigating crimes. |
| pornification | the introduction of pornographic elements into a film etc. |
| postsync | (Short for) postsynchronize, to add a soundtrack to a film after recording. |
| precensor | to censor a publication or film before its release. |
| refilm | to film again. |
| screenland | the cinema. |
| sepmag | of a film, having sound recorded on a separate magnetic tape. |
| silent | without sound (noun) a silent film |
| silently | (Adv.) SILENT, without sound. |
| skinflick | a pornographic movie. |
| slashfest | a film or computer game that involves bloody slayings involving blades. |
| slomo | a slow-motion film. |
| soundman | a member of a film crew whose job it is to record sound. |
| soundstage | the soundproof area of a motion picture studio. |
| stardom | the status of a preeminent performer. |
| suspenser | something, eg a film or book, that is filled with suspense. |
| synthespian | a computer-generated image of a film actor used in place of the actor when filming stunts. |
| talkie | a talking film. |
| tentpole | a big budget movie whose high earnings are intended to offset the cost of less profitable ones. |
| uncinematic | not related to the cinema. |
| verite | (Fr.) reality, truth, as in cinema verite. |
| videogram | a commercial video film. |
| weepie | a sentimental film or book. |
| weepily | (Adv.) WEEPY, given to tears. |
| weepy | given to tears (noun) a sentimental film or book |
| zoechrome | an early colour cinematographic process, aka zoetrope. |