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Vocabulary

VOCABULARY   CINEMA  Cinema (BE) : a theatre where films are shown for public entertainment. Example: ‘I was weaned on a diet of Hollywood fantasy at my local’cinema’   Movie (US) , film : a cinema film. Example: ‘a movie star’   Action film : such a film featuring fast-moving action; = "action movie"   Cartoon : a film using animation techniques to photograph a sequence of drawings rather than real people or objects.   Comedy : a film, play, or broadcast programme intended to make an audience laugh.   Detective film : a movie denoting a rank of police officer with investigative duties   Horror film : a literary or film genre concerned with arousing feelings of horror.   Science-fiction film : a fiction movie based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.   Silent film : without an accompanying s...