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
* Movies * Motion pictures * Talking pictures * Pictures * Celluloid * Flicks (or flickers) * Photoplays * Picture shows * The cinema * The silver screen (talkie era); the silver sheet (silent era) * VideosEssence 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. After the late 1950s, plastic 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 genres
Film genreBy setting
*Biographical film, Biography - portrays a real-life character in his or her real-life story *Crime film, Crime - places its character within realm of criminal activity *Fantasy film, Fantasy - films set in imaginary worlds, often with a swords and sorcery theme *Film noir - portrays its principal characters in a Nihilism, nihilistic and existentialist realm or manner *Historical film, Historical - taking place in the past *Science fiction film, Science fiction - placement of characters in an alternative reality, typically in the future or in outer space *Sports film, Sports - sporting events and locations pertaining to a given sport *War film, War - battlefields and locations pertaining to a time of war *Western (genre), Westerns - colonial period to modern era of the western United StatesBy mood
*Action film, Action - generally involves a moral interplay between "good" and "bad" played out through violence or physical force *Adventure film, Adventure - involving danger, risk, and/or chance, often with a high degree of fantasy *Comedy film, Comedy - intended to provoke laughter *Drama film, Drama - mainly focuses on character development *Erotic film, Erotic - sexuality or eroticism and sex acts, including love scenes *Horror film, Horror - intended to provoke fear in audience *Mystery film, Mystery - the progression from the unknown to the known by discovering and solving a series of clues *Romance film, Romance - dwelling on the elements of romantic love *Thriller film, Thrillers - intended to provoke excitement and/or nervous tension into audienceBy format
*Biographical film, Biographical - a ''biopic'' is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person, with varying degrees of basis in fact *Documentary film, Documentary - a factual following of an event or person to gain an understanding of a particular point or issue *Experimental film, Experimental (''avant-garde'') - created to test audience reaction or to expand the boundaries of film production/story exposition then generally at play *Musical film, Musical - a film interspersed with singing by all or some of the characters *Silent film, Silent - a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogueBy 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 film, Television - a film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television networkBy length
*Short film, Short - may strive to contain many of the elements of a "full-length" feature, in a shorter time-frame *Serial film, 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 film, 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.Cinema by region
History of film
History of film * 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 1800sGeneral film concepts
Film theory * Academy Awards – an American awards show hosted by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences which recognizes excellence in cinematic achievement, as voted for by the Academy itself. The statuettes handed out to winners are nicknamed "Oscars". * Actor * American Film Institute * B movie * Film directing *Film editing * Film studio * Movie projector * Cinematography * Set construction * Sound stageFilm formats
*List of film formatsFilms
*List of films by title: List of films: numbers, #, List of films: A, A, List of films: B, B, List of films: C, C, List of films: D, D, List of films: E, E, List of films: F, F, List of films: G, G, List of films: H, H, List of films: I, I, List of films: J-K, J-K, List of films: L, L, List of films: M, M, List of films: N-O, N-O, List of films: P, P, List of films: Q-R, Q-R, List of films: S, S, List of films: T, T, List of films: U-V-W, U-V-W, & List of films: X-Y-Z, X-Y-Z *List of years in filmFilms by genre
*List of action films *List of adventure films *List of animated feature-length films *List of biographical films *Film genre, List of cinematic genres *Lists of comedy films, List of comedy films *List of comedy-drama films *List of crime films *List of drama films *List of disaster films *List of fantasy films *List of films featuring extraterrestrials *List of films noir *List of gangster movies *List of historical drama films *List of horror films *List of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films *List of mystery films *List of punk movies *List of racism-related movies *Lists of science fiction films *List of sports films *List of thriller films *List of war films *List of Western filmsFilms by origin
* List of films#By region and country of origin, List of films by region and country of originFilms by setting location
* Lists of films based on locationFilms by cost
* List of most expensive films * List of most expensive non-English-language filmsFilms by success
*List of films considered the best *List of 1 billion dollar grossing films, List of highest-grossing films *List of films considered the worst *List of movies that have won eight or more Academy Awards, List of Academy Award-winning films *Lists of box office number-one filmsFilms 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 Cinema, 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)Film companies
*List of film production companies *List of film production companies by country *List of film distributors by countryFilm studios
Major film studiosMajors (Big Five)
* The Walt Disney Studios (division), 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 Global) – American film studio owned by Paramount Global, 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 1923Others
* Lionsgate * Lantern Entertainment * Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGMAwards and festivals
*List of film awards *List of film festivals *List of Academy Awards ceremonies *AFI 100 Years... series *List of Golden Globe Awards ceremoniesNotable people from the film industry
*List of show business families, Show business families *List of soundtrack composers, Soundtrack composersFilm theorists
* Rudolf Arnheim * André Bazin * Sergei Eisenstein * Siegfried Kracauer * Lev Kuleshov * Vsevolod PudovkinFamous film producers
List of film producers, Notable film producers * George Lucas * David O. Selznick * Jerry BruckheimerFamous directors
List of film and television directors, Notable film and television directors * Woody Allen * Kathryn Bigelow * James Cameron * Yash Chopra * Joel and Ethan Coen * Francis Ford Coppola * Michael Curtiz * David Fincher * Victor Fleming * Werner Herzog * Alfred Hitchcock * Peter Jackson * Alejandro Jodorowsky * Stanley Kubrick * Fritz Lang * Sergio Leone * Sidney Lumet * David Lynch * Christopher Nolan * Martin Scorsese * Steven Spielberg * Quentin Tarantino * Billy Wilder * Sam Wood * William Wyler * Satyajit RayFamous actors
List of actors, Notable actors * Humphrey Bogart * Marlon Brando * James Cagney * Russell Crowe * Denzel Washington * Tom Cruise * Bette Davis * Leonardo DiCaprio * Alec Guinness * Tom Hanks * Audrey Hepburn * Katharine Hepburn * Amitabh Bachchan * Anthony Hopkins * Christopher Lee * Jack Lemmon * Daniel Day-Lewis * Walter Matthau * Al Pacino * Edward G. RobinsonSee also
* Film industry * Filmmaking * Independent film * List of film festivals * List of motion picture production equipmentReferences
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