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Cinema & Pop Culture Vocabulary List: 79 Words with Definitions
Genres, plots, reviews, music and the vocabulary of fandom. This is the Cinema & Pop Culture topic pack inside Word Hype — the words you need to talk about what you watched last night.
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| Aesthetic | Relating to beauty, art, visual appeal, or the appreciation of artistic taste.Concerned with visual style, harmony, and elegant appearance rather than practical utility. | Play ▶ |
| Album | One or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc.One or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc. | Play ▶ |
| Article | Nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication.A separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will). | Play ▶ |
| Artist | A person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination. | Play ▶ |
| Author | A writer of a book or article.An originator or creator of something. | Play ▶ |
| Award | A grant made by a law court.Something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery. | Play ▶ |
| Camera | A device for recording visual images.A judge's private room. | Play ▶ |
| Chorus | Any utterance produced simultaneously by a group.A group of people assembled to sing together. | Play ▶ |
| Cinema | A medium that disseminates moving pictures.A theater where films are shown. | Play ▶ |
| Comedy | Light and humorous drama with a happy ending.A comic incident or series of incidents. | Play ▶ |
| Create | Make or cause to be or to become.Bring into existence. | Play ▶ |
| Culture | The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement.The cultivation of bacteria or biological cells. | Play ▶ |
| Dancer | Someone who moves their body to music. | Play ▶ |
| Depict | To show, represent, or portray someone or something in a drawing, painting, or other art form.To describe, narrate, or characterize someone or something in written or spoken words. | Play ▶ |
| Design | The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan).Something intended as a guide for making something else. | Play ▶ |
| Dialog | A conversation between two persons.The lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction. | Play ▶ |
| Direct | Going straight to a place without stopping.To tell people what to do. | Play ▶ |
| Display | Show something so that other people can see it. | Play ▶ |
| Distort | To pull, twist, or bend out of shape; to make physically misshapen or crooked.To misrepresent, warp, or change the true meaning, facts, or story of an event or message. | Play ▶ |
| Drama | A play for the theater, radio, or television. | Play ▶ |
| Edited | Fixed or changed a text or video.Corrected mistakes in writing. | Play ▶ |
| Editor | A person who checks and fixes writing before it is printed.Someone who prepares a book or newspaper for printing. | Play ▶ |
| Elaborate | Presenting many carefully arranged parts or details; highly intricate, complex, or rich.To add more details, information, or explanations to an account, story, or idea. | Play ▶ |
| Eloquent | Fluent, persuasive, and highly effective in speaking or writing.Clearly expressing or indicating something, such as an emotional state or feeling, without words. | Play ▶ |
| Emphasis | Special importance, value, or prominence given to a particular subject or thing.Vigor, intensity, or weight of expression given to an action or statement. | Play ▶ |
| Epitome | A person or thing that is a perfect, standard, or typical example of a particular quality or type.A summary, abstract, or brief condensation of a written work, book, or speech. | Play ▶ |
| Excerpt | A short passage, quote, or extract selected from a larger written work, book, film, or piece of music.To take, copy, or extract a passage from a literary work for citation or study. | Play ▶ |
| Expose | To reveal, uncover, or make visible something that was hidden, secret, or covered.To make something accessible, open, or vulnerable to an action, influence, or danger. | Play ▶ |
| Fabricate | To construct, manufacture, or build an industrial product, vessel, or structure from prepared parts.To invent, concoct, or forge a false story, document, lie, or piece of evidence. | Play ▶ |
| Famous | Known about by many people.Recognized by everyone. | Play ▶ |
| Fiction | Literature describing imagined people and events. | Play ▶ |
| Fidelity | Faithfulness, loyalty, and strict adherence to a person, cause, belief, or duty.The degree of exactness, accuracy, or precision with which something is copied or reproduced. | Play ▶ |
| Format | The way something is arranged or set out.To arrange the look of a document on a computer. | Play ▶ |
| Fragment | A small part broken off or detached from a larger whole or structure.An incomplete or isolated portion of a book, document, or piece of music. | Play ▶ |
| Gaming | Playing video games or playing for money. | Play ▶ |
| Gesture | A movement of part of the body, especially a hand or the head, to express or emphasize an idea, thought, or feeling.An action performed to convey an intention, attitude, or sentiment, especially as a polite or symbolic token. | Play ▶ |
| Ghosts | The spirits of dead people. | Play ▶ |
| Glimpse | A very quick, momentary, or passing look.A brief, incomplete, or partial view of a situation, scene, or subject. | Play ▶ |
| Gossip | Light informal conversation for social occasions.Wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies. | Play ▶ |
| Graphic | Relating to visual art, drawing, engraving, lettering, or print design.Giving a vivid, highly detailed, and realistic picture or description. | Play ▶ |
| Guitar | A stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking. | Play ▶ |
| Harmony | The state of being in agreement, concord, or compatibility in opinion, feeling, or action.The combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords and progressions. | Play ▶ |
| Humor | The ability to be funny or to laugh at things. | Play ▶ |
| Illusion | An erroneous or distorted mental representation of reality.A deceptive belief, hope, or idea that many people accept as true but is actually false. | Play ▶ |
| Image | A picture in your mind or a photograph. | Play ▶ |
| Legend | A traditional story passed down through generations. | Play ▶ |
| Medium | About halfway between two extremes.An agency or means of doing something. | Play ▶ |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.A symbol, emblem, or figurative representation of something else. | Play ▶ |
| Movie | A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement. | Play ▶ |
| Music | Pleasant sounds made by singing or playing instruments.The written signs representing musical sounds. | Play ▶ |
| Narrative | A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.The practice, style, or art of telling stories or relating historical events. | Play ▶ |
| Nostalgia | A sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period with happy personal associations.A bittersweet desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life. | Play ▶ |
| Novel | Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.An extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story. | Play ▶ |
| Opera | A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works. | Play ▶ |
| Orchestra | A large instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments.The circular or semicircular space in front of the stage in an ancient Greek theater. | Play ▶ |
| Poetic | Of or relating to poetry.Of or relating to poets. | Play ▶ |
| Poetry | Literature written in verse with careful use of language and rhythm. | Play ▶ |
| Poster | A large printed notice displayed in a public place. | Play ▶ |
| Radio | An electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals. | Play ▶ |
| Record | An official document, file, or account kept for evidence or future reference.The best performance or score ever achieved in a particular sport or activity. | Play ▶ |
| Rhythm | A repeated pattern of sound or movement. | Play ▶ |
| Scenario | An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work. | Play ▶ |
| Screen | A flat surface on which images or information are shown. | Play ▶ |
| Script | The written text of a play, film, or broadcast. | Play ▶ |
| Series | Similar things placed in order or happening one after another.A periodical that appears at scheduled times. | Play ▶ |
| Stage | Any distinct time period in a sequence of events.A large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience. | Play ▶ |
| Story | A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program.A structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale. | Play ▶ |
| Studio | Workplace for the teaching or practice of an art.Workplace consisting of a room or building where movies or television shows or radio programs are produced and recorded. | Play ▶ |
| Style | How something is done or how it happens.A particular kind (as to appearance). | Play ▶ |
| Symbol | An arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance.An arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance. | Play ▶ |
| Symbolic | Serving as a visible representation or token of something abstract, such as an idea or quality.Relating to, using, or expressed by means of characters, signs, or representational marks. | Play ▶ |
| Talent | A natural ability to do something well. | Play ▶ |
| Tragedy | An event resulting in devastating loss, great suffering, and severe misfortune.A serious drama in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw. | Play ▶ |
| Video | A recording of moving images, usually with sound. | Play ▶ |
| Viewer | A person who watches television, a film, or an event. | Play ▶ |
| Violin | A small wooden instrument played with a bow. | Play ▶ |
| Visual | Relating to seeing or sight.A picture, piece of film, or display used to illustrate or accompany something. | Play ▶ |
| Voice | The sound a person makes when speaking or singing.The ability to speak or express an opinion. | Play ▶ |
| Writer | A person who writes books, stories, or articles.Someone who creates written works as a job. | Play ▶ |