Terms and Definitions for Cinema Studies and Cultural Studies

This page contains links to terms with definitions that I use in my courses, especially those which involve cinema studies and/or cultural studies. Many of the entries have been adapted from other sources, and have been cited in the entries. The entries contain links to related entries, most of which are wiithin this site. Some of these links are to "CB's Glossary," which requires a password.

Terms:

classical Hollywood cinema

counter-cinema

discourse

distanciation

hegemony

ideology

interpellation

motivation

Oedipal trajectory

queer theory

sexuality

stereotype

structuring absence

subject/object

 

 

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