Critical Studies List                  

1. Analog/digital recording
2. Applied aesthetics
3. Appropriation
4. Associated Press
5. ARPANET
6. Aura
7. Auteur theory
8. Bricolage
9. Broadcasting
10. Chiaroscuro
11. Cinema verite
12. Commodification
13. Communication
14. Content analysis
15. Continuity editing
16. Culture Industry, The
17. Culture Jamming
18. Cultural Capital
19. Cultural imperialism
20. Cyberspace
21. Diegesis
22. Difference
23. Discourse
24. Encoding/Decoding
25. Enthymeme
26. Ethnocentrism
27. Ethos
28. Excess
29. Ex-Nomination
30. Exordium
31. Fairness & balance/objectivity
32. Fandom
33. Figures of speech
34. Film noir
35. Fourth Estate
36. Frankfurt School
37. Gatekeeper
38. Gaze (Laura Mulvey)
39. Genre
40. Gramsci, Antonio
41. Hegemony
42. High/low culture
43. Hyperbole
44. Ideology
45. Identification
46. Induction/deduction
47. Intertextuality
48. Irony
49. Kinetoscope/kinetograph
50. Langue/Parole
51. Liveness
52. Logos
53. Mass media
54. Media consolidation
55. Media convergence
56. Media Event
57. Metaphor
58. Metonymy
59. Mimesis
60. Mise-en-scene
61. Mode-of-Address
62. Modernism/postmodernism
63. Montage
64. Motif
65. Myth
66. Narrative
67. Narrowcasting
68. Noise
69. Pathos
70. Peroration
71. Point of view
72. Polysemic
73. Representation
74. Resistance
75. Rhetoric
76. Semiotics
77. Serial/series programming
78. Shot
79. Signification
80. Slander/libel
81. Sophistry
82. Star system
83. Storyboard
84. Structuralism
85. Studio system
86. Style
87. Subculture
88. Subjectivity
89. Syllogism
90. Synecdoche
91. Synergy
92. Technological Determinism
93. Telegraph
94. Topoi
95. Tracking shot
96. Tragedy
97. Vertical/Horizontal Integration
98. Yellow journalism
99. Zoom

Production Studies List

1. Achromatic
2. Aerial perspective
3. Ambient sound
4. Analog/digital recording
5. Applied aesthetics
6. Aspect ratio
7. Associated Press
8. Attached/Cast shadow
9. Brightness value
10. Broadcasting
11. Cameo lighting
12. Canted framing
13. Chiaroscuro
14. Color mixing, additive/subtractive
15. Color saturation
16. Color temperature
17. Colorization
18. Commodification
19. Continuity editing
20. Cookies
21. Copyright/trademark
22. Cross shooting
23. Cultural imperialism
24. Cyberspace
25. Deductive / inductive visual approach
26. Depth of field
27. Digital divide
28. Digital video effects
29. Dissolve
30. Dolly
31. Enthymeme
32. Establishing shot
33. Ethnocentrism
34. Ethos
35. Exordium
36. Fade
37. Fairness & balance/objectivity
38. Figure-ground principle
39. Figure-ground reversal
40. Frame density (sampling rate)
41. Gatekeeper
42. High/low key lighting
43. HTML
44. Hyperbole
45. Ideology
46. Induction/deduction
47. Interlaced / progressive scanning
48. Jump cut
49. Linear editing
50. Linear perspective
51. Logos
52. Master shot / coverage
53. Match cut
54. Media consolidation
55. Media convergence
56. Metaphor
57. Metonymy
58. Mise-en-scene
59. Moiré effect
60. Montage
61. Motion paradox
62. Narrative
63. Narrowcasting
64. Noise
65. Nondiegetic sound
66. Objective / subjective time
67. Oligopoly
68. Open-source software
69. Pan
70. Pathos
71. Peroration
72. Point of view
73. Post/preproduction
74. Rack focus 
75. Resistance
76. Rhetoric
77. Shadow Falloff
78. Shot
79. Slander/libel
80. Sophistry
81. Sound perspective
82. Spatial volume
83. Star system
84. Storyboard
85. Studio system
86. Superimposition
87. Syllogism
88. Synecdoche
89. Synergy
90. Telegraph
91. Three-point lighting
92. Tilt
93. Timbre
94. Vertical integration
95. White balance
96. Wipe
97. Yellow journalism
98. Z-axis blocking
99. Zoom / wide-angle lens

Suggested resources

Corbett & Connors, Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student

and/or the website Silva Rhetoricae: http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm

Bordwell & Thompson, Film Art

Zettl, Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics