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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