#cinema

• Abuladze — The surname of Georgian film director Tengiz Abuladze, a legendary figure of Soviet and world cinema, renowned for his poetic, deeply allegorical style that criticized totalitarianism. His masterpiece, the movie 'Repentance' (Monanieba, 1984), became a symbolic work of the Glasnost era, being one of the first cinematic productions to courageously and surrealiatically expose the horrors of Stalinist repressions and the absurdity of the cult of personality.
• Actor — A performing artist who embodies a character in a play, movie, radio, or television show, using scenic techniques, gestures, and vocal inflections; (in a broad or sociopolitical sense) a person, group, or organization playing a determining role in an event or process. This structural element constitutes the central pillar of dramatic manifestation and social interaction.
• Minor actor — A diminutive of the noun actor, often used with a slightly pejorative, ironic, or affectionate connotation to denote a performer of minor importance, lacking remarkable talent, who plays secondary or insignificant roles. This structural element highlights an informal value hierarchy within the artistic world.
• Histrionic — Pertaining to actors or the art of scenic performance; characteristic of the dramatic profession. This structural attribute defines the style, technique, emotions, and expressions specific to embodying a character on stage or screen.
• Acting — The profession, art, or activity of an actor; the art of dramatic performance on stage or screen. This structural domain requires mastering complex techniques of diction, scenic movement, psychological analysis, and bodily expressiveness to faithfully shape characters.
• Acting community — A collective noun denoting the totality or mass of actors active within a theatre, a region, a country, or a specific historical era. This structural term symbolically gathers the acting guild, highlighting the shared aspect of the professional community of performers.
• Actress — A secondary, diminutive, or colloquial form for actress, denoting a woman who interprets a character in a play or movie; sometimes used with an affectionate, familiar, or slightly ironic nuance depending on the context. It represents a structural gender derivative created by attaching a feminine suffix to the masculine root.
• Actress — A woman who portrays roles in plays, films, radio, or television; a female artist who scenically or cinematographically transposes a literary character through physical, vocal, and emotional expressiveness. This professional status implies mastering dramatic techniques to evoke complex states and narratives in front of an audience or a camera.
• Adapter — A person who adapts a literary or musical work for another medium of expression (theater, film, radio). In a technical and structural sense, it represents a device, an electronic circuit, or an intermediate element that modifies the characteristics of a signal, current, or data stream to enable the interconnection of two incompatible devices. As an adjective, it describes any element or behavior fulfilling an adjusting function.
• Agfacolor — A historical commercial name assigned to a series of color photographic technologies and materials developed by the German company Agfa, based on the structure of chromatic film with substantive color couplers. Originally launched in 1936 as Agfacolor Neu, this structural process revolutionized the global film and photography industry by simplifying the processing of color films.
• Alain Delon — Famous French actor, producer, and director, considered one of the greatest male icons, sex symbols, and milestones of European cinema from the second half of the 20th century. His complex artistic persona stood out through memorable roles as young rebels, gangsters, or enigmatic characters in masterpieces directed by great masters such as Luchino Visconti, Jean-Pierre Melville, or Michelangelo Antonioni.
• Black-and-white — Combining, alternating, or exclusively utilizing the colors white and black; devoid of intermediate chromatic nuances, except for gray tones. In visual arts, cinematography, and photography, the term describes the traditional technique or aesthetic style of rendering images without colors, emphasizing contrasts, shadows, and highlights. As an adverb, it expresses the radical way of viewing or perceiving a situation in a dual manner.
• Alexeieff — A surname of Russian origin, transliterated into Western contexts, made famous in world cinema history by Alexandre Alexeieff (1901–1982), a graphic artist, illustrator, and animation film director. Alongside his wife Claire Parker, he invented the pinscreen technique, a revolutionary device that produced unique chiaroscuro effects similar to aquatint etching, utilized to animate literary masterpieces.
• Allen — A surname and given name of Celtic/English origin widely used internationally, celebrated in culture notably through Woody Allen, the famous American director and screenwriter, or Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. In industrial and technical terminology, the term designates a standardized system of hexagonal socket screws and their corresponding tool (Allen key).
• Ampex recorder — A technical and commercial term integrated into television and broadcasting jargon to designate a professional studio tape recorder or a videotape recorder (VTR), a name derived from the famous American Ampex corporation (founded by Alexander M. Poniatoff). In a broader sense, it was used in the past to denote the process of magnetic recording of audio-video signals or the magnetic tape itself.
• To anachronize — To introduce an anachronism into a literary, historical, or cinematographic work; to place an event, object, idea, or person in a different historical era than the one to which it truly belongs. In the reflexive form, it defines the action of a phenomenon, custom, or system becoming obsolete, outdated, or completely unadapted to the requirements and spirit of the current time, thus losing its structural utility in the present.
• Anaglyph — A stereoscopic image, photograph, or film structurally produced by superimposing two bidimensional images of the same subject, chromatically filtered through complementary colors (usually red for the left eye and cyan for the right eye). When viewed through a special pair of glasses with matching color filters, this visual assembly produces a perfect optical illusion of depth, relief, and three-dimensional spatiality in the observer's brain.
• Anaglyphic — Pertaining to anaglyphs or characterized by a stereoscopic image system; said of a system, film, or graphic process where the three-dimensional effect is obtained through the complementary color filtering of two superimposed images. When viewed through special glasses, this optical profile allows the decoding of depth and the perception of a tridimensional visual relief.
• Anamorphic — Pertaining to anamorphosis or anamorphism, referring to them, or producing a controlled optical distortion. In cinematography and photographic art, it describes a special system of lenses or objectives (anamorphic lenses) that compress an image with a very wide field of view onto a standard sensor or film, with the image then being decompressed during projection to provide a spectacular widescreen format without losing the frame's original resolution.
• Anamorphosing — The act of 'anamorfoza' and its result; the technical, artistic, or mathematical process of controllably distorting an image or object to achieve an anamorphosis. It represents the planar or spatial geometric transformation applied to a visual element to hide its real shape outside an ideal vantage point or optical playback device.