A-Z

• Ambient sound
• Affinity group
• Analog / digital recording
• Applied aesthetics
• Appropriation
• Aspect ratio
• Associated Press
• Audience
• Aura / auratic viewing (Walter Benjamin)
• Auteur theory
• Bricolage
• Broadcasting / narrowcasting
• Cameo lighting
• Canted frame
• Crane shot
• Chiaroscuro
• Cinéma vérité
• Close-up shot
• Color saturation
• Color temperature
• Commodification  
• Content analysis
• Continuity editing
• Copyright / trademark
• Cross-cutting
• Cultural imperialism
• Culture Industry, The
• Cutaway
• Depth of field
• Diegesis
• Digitality
• Direct address
• Discourse
• Dissolve
• Dolly shot
• Effects rendering
• Epideictic rhetoric
• Encoding / Decoding
• Enthymeme
• Establishing shot
• Ethnocentrism
• Ethos
• Event density
• Eyeline match
• Ex-Nomination
• Exordium
• Extreme close-up shot
• Fade
• Fandom
• Figure-ground principle
• Figures of speech
• Film noir

• Flashback
• Flashforward
• Following shot
• Fourth Estate
• Frame rate 
• Genre
• Globalization
• Handheld camera
• Hegemony
• High angle shot
• High/low culture
• High/low key lighting
• Hyperbole
• Identification
• Ideology
• Induction / deduction
• Intertextuality
• Irony
• Jump cut
• Key light
• Kinetoscope / kinetograph
• Langue / Parole
• Linear editing / non-linear editing
• Linear perspective
• Liveness
• Long shot
• Long take
• Low angle shot
• Logos
• Male Gaze, The (Laura Mulvey)
• Mass media
• Master shot / coverage
• Match cut
• Match-on-action
• Media consolidation
• Media convergence
• Media Event
• Medium shot
• Metaphor
• Metonymy
• Mise-en-scène
• Modernism / postmodernism
• Moiré effect
• Montage
• Motion paradox
• Motif
• Myth
• Narrative
• Neo-realism
• Noise
• Objective / subjective time
• Oligopoly

• Open-source software
• Participatory culture
• Pan
• Parallel editing
• Pathos
• Peroration
• Persistence of vision
• Polysemic
• Post/preproduction
• Rack focus 
• Reframing
• Representation
• Rhetoric
• Self-reflexivity
• Semiotics
• Serial / series programming
• Signification
• Shadow Falloff
• Shot
• Shot / Reverse shot
• Slander/libel
• Sophistry
• Sound perspective
• Spatial volume
• Storyboard
• Structuralism / post-structuralism
• Studio system
• Style (rhetoric)
• Subculture
• Subjectivity
• Superimposition
• Syllogism
• Synecdoche
• Synergy
• Technological Determinism
• Telegraph
• Television
• Televisuality
• Three camera setup
• Three-point lighting
• Tilt
• Timbre
• Topoi
• Trope
• Trucking/Tracking shot
• Vertical / Horizontal Integration
• White balance
• Wipe
• Yellow journalism
• Zoom