STTG | Film Article Index
A breakdown of our film content by theme, perfect for any introduction into film theory and filmmaking.
Film Concepts
- Apparatus Theory in Film
- Auteur Theory
- Bechdel Test
- Beur Cinema
- Diasporic Cinema
- Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Sound
- Feminist Film Theory
- Film Censorship
- Hays Code / Hollywood Production Code
- How to Watch A Movie
- Meta-Textual Storytelling
- Postmodernism in Film
- Psychological Film Theory
- Screen Theory
- Semiotics: Signs and Motifs in Film
- Structuralist Film Theory
- Studio System / Star System
- Subjective Cinema
- Universal Structure
- Voyeurism in Film
- Vulgar Auteurism
Film Movements
- British Documentary Movement (1926–1946)
- British New Wave (1959 – 1963)
- Cinema Novo (1960 – 1974)
- Cinéma Pur (1921-1931)
- Dogme 95 (1995 – 2005)
- French New Wave (1958 – 1973)
- German Expressionism (1913 – 1930)
- Greek Weird Wave (2009 – )
- Italian Neorealism (1943 – 1952)
- Parallel Cinema (1952 – 1980)
- Poetic Realism (1930 – 1939)
- Polish Film School (1956 – 1965)
- Soviet Montage (1919 – 1930)
- Surrealist Cinema (1924 – 1932)
- The Evolution of Cinema
- The Silent Era
- What are The Talkies?
Film Genres
- Documentary: What is the Expository Mode?
- Documentary: What is the Observational Mode?
- Documentary: What is the Participatory Mode?
- Documentary: What is the Performative Mode?
- Documentary: What is the Poetic Mode?
- Documentary: What is the Reflexive Mode?
- Film Noir, Explained
- Satire in Film
- Stop Motion Animation
- The 6 Documentary Modes: Essential Film Theory Explained
- The Action Film
- The Animated Film
- The Blaxploitation Film
- The Body Horror
- The Comedy Film
- The Crime/Thriller Film
- The Dystopian Film
- The Evolution of the Hollywood Thriller
- The Fantasy Film
- The Historical Film
- The Horror Film
- The Musical Film
- The Political Film
- The Road Film
- The Romance Film
- The Science Fiction Film
- The Sports Film
- The Spy Film
- The Suspense Film
- The Ultimate Guide to Film Genres and Subgenres
- The Western Film
Directors + Crews
- Director Profile: Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Director Profile: Alfred Hitchcock
- Director Profile: Ava DuVernay
- Director Profile: Bong Joon-ho
- Director Profile: David Cronenberg
- Director Profile: David Fincher
- Director Profile: Denis Villeneuve
- Director Profile: Edgar Wright
- Director Profile: Guillermo Del Toro
- Director Profile: Hayao Miyazaki
- Director Profile: Henry Selick
- Director Profile: John Carpenter
- Director Profile: Lynne Ramsay
- Director Profile: Michel Gondry
- Director Profile: Michelangelo Antonioni
- Director Profile: Mike Leigh
- Director Profile: Nicolas Winding Refn
- Director Profile: Park Chan-Wook
- Director Profile: Quentin Tarantino
- Director Profile: Sofia Coppola
- Director Profile: Stanley Kubrick
- Director Profile: Terry Gilliam
- Director Profile: Tim Burton
- Director Profile: Wes Anderson
- Director Profile: Wes Craven
- Director Profile: Yorgos Lanthimos
- Eddie Hamilton: Editing Mission: Impossible – Fallout
- Howard Berry: Directing Her Name Was Moviola
- Julien Alary: Grading Louder Than Bombs
- Larry Fong: Cinematography