The Columbia Film Language Glossary (FLG) is designed to enhance screenings, readings, lectures, and discussions for any course that involves the study of film. It provides definitions of essential terms used in basic and advanced film courses that are representative of all the major categories of film studies: practical terminology, technical terminology, the language of business, and historical terms, as well as the language of criticism and theory. Through the use of multimedia within the definitions, users will have a more complete understanding of the terms being defined—an explanation of the theory and a demonstration of the practice. Specifically, terms combine visual text, film clips, and audio commentary in creative ways, delivering them in high-quality media for classroom use and private study.
The Film Language Glossary is available to any student of film. Definitions and audio commentary are written and narrated by faculty at Columbia University.
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Credits
Faculty Partners
Richard Peña
Professor of Professional Practice in Film, School of The Arts at Columbia University
Nancy Friedland
Librarian for Film Studies and Performing Arts at Columbia University
Faculty Contributors
James Schamus
Professor of Professional Practice in Film, School of The Arts at Columbia University
Larry Engel
Former Adjunct Professor of Film, Columbia University
David McKenna
Former Adjunct Professor of Film, Columbia University
Film Language Glossary (2015)
Project Manager
Aurora Collado
Video Production
Jon Hanford
Stephanie Ogden
Design and Programming
Zarina Mustapha
Anders Pearson
Jonah Bossewitch
Creative Direction
Marc Raymond
Production Director
Lucy Appert
Executive Producer
Maurice Matiz
Film Language Glossary (original release)
Project Manager
John Frankfurt
Video Production
Brian O’Hagan
Stephanie Ogden
Interface Design
Marc Raymond
Developer
Catherine Jhee
Creative Direction
Elizabeth Day
Production Director
Ted Bongiovanni
Executive Producers
Frank Moretti
Maurice Matiz
Additional Contributors
Jonah Bossewitch
Andrew Boynton
David Miele
Peter Sommer