a shot, usually involving a distant framing, that shows the spatial relations among the important figures, objects, and setting in a scene.

In Brecht's theory, the desirable effect which keeps both audience and actors intellectually separate from the action of the drama. It provides intellectual distance.

a film designed to serve a particular need or desire of the audience. Examples include blaxploitation, sexploitation, etc.

a measure of the amount of light striking the surface of the film. Overexposed film gives a very light, washed out, dreamy quality to the print image while underexposed makes the image darker, muddy, and foreboding.