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Dao Ge English Movie List T-360 The following excerpts are at /wiki/Film For listings of movies, see /wiki/List_of_lists_of_films Movies listed are often found at D:\Programs\Funshion.exe DESKTOP Note… Films are?cultural artifacts?created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important art?form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for?educating?– or indoctrinating?– citizens. The visual elements of cinema give motion pictures a universal power of communication. The origin of the name film comes from the fact that?photographic film?(also called?film stock) has historically been the primary?medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion picture, including?picture,?picture show,?moving picture,?photo-play?and?flick. A common name for film in the United States is?movie, while in Europe the term?film?is preferred. Additional terms for the field in general include?the big screen,?the silver screen,?the cinema and?the movies. Preceding film in origin by thousands of years, early?plays?and?dances?had elements common to film:?scripts,?sets,?costumes,?production,direction,?actors,?audiences,?storyboards, and scores. Much terminology later used in film theory and criticism apply, such as?mise en scene (roughly, the entire visual picture at any one time). Owing to an absence of technology for doing so, moving visual and aural images were not recorded for replaying as in film. Film theory seeks to develop concise and systematic concepts that apply to the study of film as?art. It was started by?Ricciotto Canudos?The Birth of the Sixth Art. Formalist film theory, led by?Rudolf Arnheim,?Béla Balázs, and?Siegfried Kracauer, emphasized how film differed from reality, and thus could be considered a valid fine art.?André Bazin?reacted against this theory by arguing that films artistic essence lay in its ability to mechanically