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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Film.
See also pages that link to Film or to this page.

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Parent topics

  • Visual arts [r]: Creative fields that produce works primarily experienced through the sense of sight. [e]
  • Communication [r]: The set of interactive processes that create shared meaning. [e]
  • Media [r]: The means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, magazines, and internet, that reach or influence people widely. [e]
  • Popular culture [r]: Commercialised folk culture that exists for the masses; opposite of high culture. [e]
  • Hollywood [r]: District of the city of Los Angeles, California, synonymous with the American movie and television industry. [e]
  • Bollywood [r]: The Indian film industry, based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. [e]

Subtopics

  • Show (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Biography [r]: The history of a person's life. [e]
  • Editing [r]: Arranging, revising, and preparing a written, audio, or video material for final production usually by a party other than the creator of the material. [e]
  • Leading actor [r]: The person who plays the protagonist in a film or play. [e]
  • Hero [r]: Someone who hazards his life in a noble cause [e]
  • Science fiction [r]: A story-telling genre that presents alternatives to what is currently considered scientifically possible or that extrapolates from present-day knowledge. [e]
  • Received Pronunciation [r]: An accent of British English that is generally thought of as the stereotypical accent of the British aristocracy, and the standard British accent for use on film, radio and television. [e]
  • Anime [r]: Japanese animated cartoons, sometimes based on manga. [e]
  • Manga [r]: Japanese or Japanese-style comics. [e]

Other related topics


Films

Directors, producers & actors

  • Walt Disney [r]: (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) An Academy Award winning American animator who revolutionized animation in film. [e]
  • Alfred Hitchcock [r]: (13th August 1899 - 29th April 1980) English-born film director who achieved great success in Hollywood, creating some of the most celebrated thrillers of his day. [e]
  • Martin Scorsese [r]: (b. 17 November 1942) American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian, known for his portrayal of mobsters, mean streets, and the violence of modern life. [e]
  • Steven Spielberg [r]: Academy Award-winning American film producer and director known for his work across many genres. [e]
  • Peter Grant [r]: (5 April 1935 – 21 November 1995), English manager and president of Swan Song Records, he was known for his no-nonsense management style and became a role model for future music managers. [e]
  • Peter Clifton [r]: (b. 1945), Australian film director and producer, known for his music documentaries and his involvement in the Led Zeppelin film The Song Remains the Same. [e]
  • Danny Boyle [r]: British film director from Manchester, England, best known for the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and Trainspotting (1996) (born 1956). [e]
  • William Hartnell [r]: 1908-1975, English actor best known as the first to take on the lead role in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who. [e]
  • Patrick Troughton [r]: 1920-1987, English actor best known as the second to take on the lead role in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who. [e]
  • Jon Pertwee [r]: 1919-1996, English actor best known as the third 'Doctor' in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, and for the title role in Worzel Gummidge (1979-1981); well-known as a comedy actor. [e]
  • Tom Baker [r]: English actor best known as the fourth to take on the lead role in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, with the longest on-screen tenure as 'the Doctor' (born 1934). [e]
  • Peter Davison [r]: English actor best known as the fifth to take on the lead role in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, and for appearances in the 1978-1990 series All Creatures Great and Small (born 1951). [e]
  • Sylvester McCoy [r]: Scottish actor best known as the seventh to take on the lead role in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (born 1943). [e]
  • Paul McGann [r]: English actor well-known for film and television roles such as in Withnail and I (1986) and Doctor Who (1996); in the latter he was the eighth actor to take on the lead role in this BBC science fiction series (born 1959). [e]
  • Christopher Eccleston [r]: English actor well-known for film and television roles such as in Elizabeth (1998) and Doctor Who (2005); in the latter he was the ninth actor to take on the lead role in this BBC science fiction series (born 1964). [e]
  • Danny John-Jules [r]: (1960-) British actor and dancer, best known for his role as 'the Cat' in Red Dwarf. [e]
  • David Tennant [r]: Scottish actor who from 2005 to 2010 was the tenth to take the lead role in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who; also well-known for various stage and screen appearances (born 1971). [e]
  • Jules Verne [r]: (1828-1905) French author and science-fiction pioneer, some of whose novels involved travel through outer space and under water before technology had made these possible, and whose work has been widely translated and made into a number of films. [e]
  • Douglas Adams [r]: (1952–2001) English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician, best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. [e]
  • Alexandre Dumas [r]: (1806-1876) Writer of iconic French literature, including The Three Musketeers; usually suffixed "père" to distinguish him from his namesake son, always suffixed "fils", who was also a major French writer. [e]
  • Luis Buñuel [r]: (1900-1983) was a Spanish-born filmmaker whose works have been renowned for their surrealism, and their criticisms of bourgeois society and religion, specifically the Catholic Church. [e]
  • Martha Young-Scholten [r]: linguist specialising in the phonology and syntax of second language acquisition (SLA); senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. [e]
  • Gong Li [r]: Award-winning Chinese and naturalised Singaporean actress, having appeared in Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Curse of the Golden Flower (2006), Hannibal Rising (2007) and Shanghai (2009). [e]
  • Michelle Yeoh [r]: Chinese Malaysian actress best known for martial arts films. [e]
  • Chow Yun-Fat [r]: An award-winning Hong Kong Chinese actor in martial arts films. [e]
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