Meaning of lit flick | Babel Free

Definitions

A film based on a literary work.

slang

Examples

“The young Tom Eliot (played by Willem Dafoe) walked upon a beach in the recent Lit-Flick TOM & VIV. I saw no peaches eaten.”

“You must be waiting with baited breath for the lit-flick (humorous) about Jacquelyn Susann writing THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.”

“Seeing the book (and, to a lesser extent, the film) advertised gives me a strong sense that it’s chick lit/flick material.”

“Jeff Clanagan, who ran Master P's, No Limit Films at the time, was responsible for figuring out how to get the dimly lit flick into theaters.”

“She's not a genius like the others—far from it—and she already has her man (poor Dash), but Julia, based on Hellman’s barefaced fabrications in Pentimento, gives us several of the essential conceits of the lit-flick genre. To begin with, she too has writer's block.”

“Critique of the costume drama in many of its guises - period drama, lit flick, frock flick, historical film, heritage film, adaptation, costume series - has often emphasized its conservatism and the lack of dynamism in its audience.”

“By portraying the successful defense against criminal obscenity charges for a poem that celebrates queer sex, Epstein and Friedman’s “lit flick” arguably renders a poetics of the unrepressed, paving the way for a new queer political aesthetic.”

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