Outline of film

What ''type'' of thing is film?

• 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 naked
• Motion pictures
• Talking pictures
• Pictures
• Celluloid
• Flicks
• Photoplays
• Picture shows
• The cinema
• The silver screen ; the silver sheet
• Videos

  Essence 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. Films were originally recorded onto plastic film which was shown through a movie projector onto a large screen. 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

By setting

• Biography - portrays a real-life character in his or her real-life story
• Crime - places its character within realm of criminal activity
• Fantasy - films set in imaginary worlds, often with a swords and sorcery theme
• Film noir - portrays its principal characters in a nihilistic and existentialist realm or manner
• Historical - taking place in the past
• Science fiction - placement of characters in an alternative reality, typically in the future or in outer space
• Sports - sporting events and locations pertaining to a given sport
• War - battlefields and locations pertaining to a time of war
• Westerns - colonial period to modern era of the western United States

  By mood

• Action - generally involves a moral interplay between "good" and "bad" played out through violence or physical force
• Adventure - involving danger, risk, and/or chance, often with a high degree of fantasy
• Comedy - intended to provoke laughter
• Drama - mainly focuses on character development
• Erotic - sexuality or eroticism and sex acts, including love scenes
• Horror - intended to provoke fear in audience
• Mystery - the progression from the unknown to the known by discovering and solving a series of clues
• Romance - dwelling on the elements of romantic love
• Thrillers - intended to provoke excitement and/or nervous tension into audience

  By format

• Biographical - a biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person, with varying degrees of basis in fact
• Documentary - a factual following of an event or person to gain an understanding of a particular point or issue
• Experimental - created to test audience reaction or to expand the boundaries of film production/story exposition then generally at play
• Musical - a film interspersed with singing by all or some of the characters
• Silent - a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue

  By 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 - a film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network

  By length

• Short - may strive to contain many of the elements of a "full-length" feature, in a shorter time-frame
• 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 - 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

• Block booking
• Camera obscura
• Thomas Edison
• Intertitle - prior to the days of sound film, intertitles 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 1800s

  General film concepts

• 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 director
• Film studio
• Movie projector
• Photography
• Set construction
• Sound stage

  Film formats

• List of film formats

  Films

• List of films by title:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, &
• List of years in film

  Films by genre

• List of action films
• List of adventure films
• List of animated feature-length films
• List of biographical films
• List of cinematic genres
• 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 films

  Films by origin

• List of films by region and country of origin

  Films by setting location

• Lists of films based on location

  Films by cost

• List of most expensive films
• List of most expensive non-English-language films

  Films by success

• List of films considered the best
• List of highest-grossing films
• List of films considered the worst
• List of Academy Award-winning films
• Lists of box office number-one films

  Films by movement

• Absolute film
• Budapest school
• Cinéma du look
• Cinema Novo
• Czechoslovak New Wave
• Dogme 95
• Free Cinema
• French New Wave
• German Expressionism
• Grupo Cine Liberación
• Hong Kong New Wave
• Italian neorealism
• Japanese New Wave
• Kammerspielfilm
• L.A. Rebellion
• Mumblecore
• New French Extremity
• New Hollywood
• New Nigerian Cinema
• New Queer Cinema
• No Wave
• Parallel Cinema
• Poetic Realism
• Polish Film School
• Pure Film Movement
• Remodernist film
• Surrealist Cinema
• Third Cinema
• Yugoslav Black Wave

  Film companies

• List of film production companies
• List of film production companies by country
• List of film distributors by country

  Film studios

Majors (Big Five)

• Walt Disney Studios - American film studio owned by The Walt Disney Company, founded in 1923
• Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group - American film studio owned by Sony, founded in 1924
• Paramount Pictures - American film studio owned by ViacomCBS, founded in 1912
• Universal Studios - American film studio owned by Comcast, founded in 1912
• Warner Bros. - American film studio owned by WarnerMedia, founded in 1923

  Others

• Lions Gate Entertainment
• Lantern Entertainment
• MGM

  Awards and festivals

• List of film awards
• List of film festivals
• List of Academy Awards ceremonies
• AFI 100 Years... series
• List of Golden Globe Awards ceremonies

  Notable people from the film industry

• Show business families
• Soundtrack composers

  Film theorists

• Rudolf Arnheim
• André Bazin
• Sergei Eisenstein
• Siegfried Kracauer
• Lev Kuleshov
• Vsevolod Pudovkin

  Famous film producers

• George Lucas
• David O. Selznick
• Jerry Bruckheimer

  Famous 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 Ray

  Famous actors

• Humphrey Bogart
• Marlon Brando
• James Cagney
• Russell Crowe
• Denzel Washington
• Tom Cruise
• Bette Davis
• Shah Rukh Khan
• 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. Robinson