A Companion Glossary for 'Suggestive Verbalizations in Film'

A glossary of terms can often be a student’s closest ally, gearing them up to navigate the myriad labels and concepts they will undoubtedly encounter in their academic careers. They will encounter several in Julian Hanich’s article “Suggestive Verbalizations in Film: On Character Speech and Sensory Imagination,” in which various concepts are unpacked and addressed in establishing a new term. So, to us, an introductory glossary seemed well suited to accompany the article as a contribution to the New Review of Film and Television Studies’ blog. In Hanich’s article he takes a closer look at the concepts that capture components of what he terms ‘suggestive verbalization’ in film—vivid language that addresses the spectator’s imaginative capacities. While the paper develops this new, more encompassing framework in greater depth, we hope to offer a little more background here on some of the terms that make up, overlap with, or could be supplanted by suggestive verbalization. While by no means complete or definitive, this glossary also lends itself as an opportunity to include additional examples and visual material illustrating, and occasionally parodying, the described terminology at work in cinema.