Social:Outline of film

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Short description: Visual art consisting of moving images


The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to film:


What type of thing is film?

Film can be described as all of the following:

  • Art – aesthetic expression for presentation or performance, and the work produced from this activity.
    • One of the arts – as an art form, film is an outlet of human expression, that is usually influenced by culture and which in turn helps to change culture. Film is a physical manifestation of the internal human creative impulse.
      • One of the visual arts – visual arts is a class of art forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and others, that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature.
      • One of the performing arts – art forms in which artists use their body, voice, or objects to convey artistic expression. Performing arts include a variety of disciplines but all take the form of a performance in front of an audience.
      • Fine art – in Western European academic traditions, fine art is art developed primarily for aesthetics, distinguishing it from applied art that also has to serve some practical function. The word "fine" here does not so much denote the quality of the artwork in question, but the purity of the discipline according to traditional Western European canons.
  • Show business – a means of providing employment for actors, screenwriters, artisans and technicians, regardless of whether the finished film was produced as a for-profit enterprise or as a not-for-profit public service.

Other names for film

  • Movie
  • Motion picture
  • Talking picture
  • Picture
  • Celluloid
  • Flick (or flicker)
  • Photoplay
  • Picture show
  • The cinema
  • The silver screen (talkie era); the silver sheet (silent era)
  • Videos

Essence of film

  • Filmmaking – process of making a film. Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition. Filmmaking is both an art and an industry. That is why they call it "show business". It's a show and a business. Films were originally recorded onto nitrate film stock which was highly flammable.[1] After the late 1950s, polyester film was used which was shown through a movie projector onto a large screen (in other words, an analog recording process). The adoption of CGI-based special effects led to the use of digital intermediates. Most contemporary films are now fully digital through the entire process of production, distribution, and exhibition from start to finish.

Cinematic and television genres

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By setting

  • Biography - portrays a real-life character in his or her real-life story
  • Crime - places its character within realm of criminal activity
  • Fantasy - films set in imaginary worlds, often with a swords and sorcery theme
  • Film noir - portrays its principal characters in a nihilistic and existentialist realm or manner
  • Historical - taking place in the past
  • Science fiction - placement of characters in an alternative reality, typically in the future or in outer space
  • Sports - sporting events and locations pertaining to a given sport
  • War - battlefields and locations pertaining to a time of war
  • Western - colonial period to modern era of the western United States

By mood

  • Action - generally involves a moral interplay between "good" and "bad" played out through violence or physical force
  • Adventure - involving danger, risk, and/or chance, often with a high degree of fantasy
  • Comedy - intended to provoke laughter
  • Drama - mainly focuses on character development
  • Erotic - sexuality or eroticism and sex acts, including love scenes
  • Horror - intended to provoke fear in audience
  • Mystery - the progression from the unknown to the known by discovering and solving a series of clues
  • Pornographic - includes sexually explicit content subject matter in order to arouse, fascinate, or satisfy the viewer
  • Romance - dwelling on the elements of romantic love
  • Thriller - intended to provoke excitement and/or nervous tension into audience

By format

  • Biographical - a biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person, with varying degrees of basis in fact
  • Documentary - a factual following of an event or person to gain an understanding of a particular point or issue
  • Experimental (avant-garde) - created to test audience reaction or to expand the boundaries of film production/story exposition then generally at play
  • Musical - a film interspersed with singing by all or some of the characters
  • Silent - a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue

By production type

  • Live action - film using actors
  • Animation - illusion of motion by consecutive display of static images which have been created by hand or on a computer
  • Television - a film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network

By length

  • Short - may strive to contain many of the elements of a "full-length" feature, in a shorter time-frame
  • Serial - similar to shorts, but forms a constant story arc
  • Feature film - film that is "full-length"

By age

  • Children's film - films for young children; as opposed to a family film, no special effort is made to make the film attractive for other audiences
  • Family - intended to be attractive for people of all ages and suitable for viewing by a young audience; examples of these are Disney films
  • Teen film - intended for and aimed towards teens although some teen films, such as the High School Musical series; may also be a family film; not all of these films are suitable for all teens, as some are rated R
  • Adult film - intended to be viewed only by an adult audience, content may include violence, disturbing themes, obscene language, or explicit sexual behaviour. This includes various forms of exploitation films. Adult film may also be used as a synonym for pornographic film.

By audience reception

Other genres

Cinema and television by region and country

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History of film and television

Main articles: Engineering:History of film and History of television
  • Block booking
  • Camera obscura
  • Thomas Edison
  • Intertitle – prior to the days of sound film, intertitles (cards with text inserted into the scene) represented dialogue or descriptive/narrative material
  • Magic lantern
  • Motion Picture Patents Company
  • Phantasmagoria
  • Silent film
  • Zoetrope – one of several pre-film animation devices which produced the illusion of movement, most popular in the mid- to late 1800s

General film concepts

Film theory

Film formats

Films and TV series

  • Lists of films
  • List of years in film
  • Lists of television programs
  • Lists of television specials
  • List of years in television
  • Lists of animation : List of animated films : List of animated television series : years in animation

Films by setting location

  • Lists of films based on location

Films by cost

  • List of most expensive films
  • List of most expensive non-English-language films

Films by success

  • List of films considered the best
  • List of highest-grossing films
  • List of films considered the worst
  • List of Academy Award-winning films
  • Lists of box office number-one films

Films by movement

  • Absolute film (1920s)
  • Budapest school (1972 - 1984)
  • Cinéma du look (1980s)
  • Cinema Novo (1960 - early 1970s)
  • Czechoslovak New Wave (1960s)
  • Dogme 95 (1995 - 2005)
  • Free Cinema (1956 - 1959)
  • French New Wave (1958 - late 1960s)
  • German Expressionism (1913 -1920s)
  • Grupo Cine Liberación (1969 - 1971)
  • Hong Kong New Wave (1979 - early 1990s)
  • Italian neorealism (1944 - 1952)
  • Japanese New Wave (1956 - 1976)
  • Kammerspielfilm (1920s)
  • L.A. Rebellion (1967 - 1989)
  • Mumblecore (2002 - )
  • New French Extremity (1999 - 2003)
  • New Hollywood (Summer 1967 through Spring 1983)
  • New Nigerian Cinema (2006 - )
  • New Queer Cinema (1990s)
  • No Wave (1976 - 1985)
  • Parallel Cinema (1952 - 1976)
  • Poetic Realism (1930s - 1940s)
  • Polish Film School (1955 - 1963)
  • Pure Film Movement (1910s - 1920s)
  • Remodernist film (2004 - )
  • Surrealist Cinema (1920s)
  • Third Cinema (1969 - 1978)
  • Yugoslav Black Wave (1963 - 1972)

Media companies

  • List of film production companies
  • List of film distributors by country
  • List of television production companies
  • List of anime companies
  • List of animation distribution companies
  • List of animation studios
    • List of animation studios owned by NBCUniversal
    • List of animation studios owned by Paramount Skydance
    • List of animation studios owned by Sony
    • List of animation studios owned by the Walt Disney Company
    • List of animation studios owned by Warner Bros. Discovery
    • List of Japanese animation studios
  • List of film archives
  • List of cable television companies
  • List of home video companies
  • List of online video platforms
  • List of pornography companies
  • List of pornographic film studios
  • List of satellite television companies
  • List of streaming media services
  • Lists of television channels
    • List of television networks by country
  • List of assets owned by ABS-CBN
  • List of assets owned by Advance Publications
  • List of assets owned by Amazon MGM Studios
  • List of assets owned by American Media
  • List of assets owned by AMC Networks
  • List of assets owned by Bell Media
  • List of assets owned by Belo Corporation
  • List of assets owned by Bertelsmann
  • List of assets owned by CanWest Global Communications
  • List of assets owned by Clear Channel Communications
  • List of assets owned by Comcast
  • List of assets owned by Corus Entertainment
  • List of assets owned by Dow Jones
  • List of assets owned by Fox Corporation
  • List of assets owned by Gannett
  • List of assets owned by Hearst Corporation
  • List of assets owned by Hubbard Broadcasting Corporation
  • List of assets owned by News Corp
  • List of assets owned by The New York Times Company
  • List of assets owned by Rogers Communications
  • List of assets owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
  • List of assets owned by Starz Entertainment
  • List of assets owned by The Walt Disney Company
  • List of assets owned by Nexstar Media Group
  • List of assets owned by Paramount Skydance
  • List of assets owned by Village Voice Media
  • List of assets owned by Vivendi
  • List of assets owned by Warner Bros. Discovery
  • List of assets owned by Washington Post Company
  • List of assets owned by Saban Capital Group
  • List of assets owned by Sony
  • Libraries owned by Amazon MGM Studios
  • Libraries owned by Comcast
  • Libraries owned by Disney
  • Libraries owned by Paramount Skydance
  • Libraries owned by Sony
  • Libraries owned by Warner Bros. Discovery
  • Libraries owned by WildBrain

Film Studios

Template:Film studios Major film studios

Majors (Big 5) Film Studios

  • Walt Disney Studios – American film studio owned by The Walt Disney Company, founded in 1923
  • Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group (a subsidiary of Sony Pictures) – American film studio owned by Sony, founded in 1924
  • Paramount Pictures (a subsidiary of Paramount Skydance) – American film studio owned by Paramount Skydance, founded in 1912
  • Universal Studios (a subsidiary of NBCUniversal) – American film studio owned by Comcast, founded in 1912
  • Warner Bros. (a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery) – American film studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, founded in 1923

Others

Awards and festivals

  • List of film awards
  • List of film festivals
  • List of Academy Awards ceremonies
  • AFI 100 Years... series
  • List of Golden Globe Awards ceremonies

Above the line

Above the line

Below the line

Below the line

Pre-production

Pre-production

Production design

Photography

Principal photography

Sound design

Sound design

Special effect

Special effect – Illusions or tricks to change appearances

Animation

Animation

Talent

Post-production

Post-production

Other

Notable people from the film industry

  • Show business families
  • Soundtrack composers

Film theorists and critics

Famous film producers

Notable film producers

Notable directors

  • List of notable film and television directors
  • List of pornographic film directors

Famous actors

See also

References

  1. ↑ Accomando, Beth (10 April 2017). "What's The Issue With Nitrate Film Stock? It's Combustible". https://www.npr.org/2017/04/10/523237767/whats-the-issue-with-nitrate-film-stock-its-combustible. 
  • Allmovie - information on films: actors, directors, biographies, reviews, cast and production credits, box office sales, and other movie data
  • Film Site - reviews of classic films
  • Rottentomatoes.com - movie reviews, previews, forums, photos, cast info
  • The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - information on current and historical films and cast listings



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