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Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
B movie B-roll baby plates backlighting backlot background actor See extra. background lighting balloon light barn doors beatscript below-the-line A term derived from the top sheet of a film budget for motion pictures, television programs, industrial films, independent films, student films and documentaries as well as commercials.
The genre primarily falls between hard fantasy and soft science fiction in the spectrum of scientific realism. It is most commonly associated with American comic books, though it has expanded into other media through adaptations and original works. Superhero. Heroic Fantasy; Cape Punk; Heroic Noir
This is a list of catchphrases found in American and British english language television and film, where a catchphrase is a short phrase or expression that has gained usage beyond its initial scope.
The Complete Gone with the Wind Trivia Book: The Movie and More. Taylor Trade Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4616-0422-8. Bridges, Herb (1998). The Filming of Gone with the Wind. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-86554-621-9. Harwell, Richard Barksdale (1 February 1992). Gone With the Wind As Book and Film. University of South Carolina Press.
In the book, there is an introductory discussion of negative polarity items spanning several chapters, covering syntax, semantics, sociolinguistic aspects. The Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items, containing German and Rumanian NPIs (Tübingen University)
A potboiler or pot-boiler is a novel, play, opera, film, or other creative work of dubious literary or artistic merit, whose main purpose was to pay for the creator's daily expenses—thus the imagery of "boil the pot", [1] which means "to provide one's livelihood."
Literary nonsense, as recognized since the nineteenth century, comes from a combination of two broad artistic sources. The first and older source is the oral folk tradition, including games, songs, dramas, and rhymes, such as the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle". [3]