• above-the-line


• development hell
  


• packaging
• points


• production value


• Star System


• Studio System


• turnaround


• spats at an Iowa picnic


• Ulmer Scale

• character actor


• designer stubble


• Star System
  

• Ulmer Scale

• 18-wheeler


• 30 Degree Rule
  
  
• 180 Degree Rule
  
  
• Alan Smithee


• blocking


• Dutch angle


• Eastwood Rule


• establishing shot


• framing (a shot)


• Hawksian woman
  
  
• make-out movie
  
  
• POV shot

Post Production

• CGI

• VFX

• development hell


• Holmes Epiphany


• master scene script


• meet cute


• payoff


• script doctor


• Three-act Structure

• ellipsis

• juxtaposition & montage

• MTV-style editing

• film historian