Subtitle

Definitions

1. A heading below or after a title.
2. Textual versions of the dialogue in films (and similar media such as television or video games), usually displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Equivalents

Examples

“Careful viewers have⟳ long observed that in the movies, one can not only watch⟳ but read⟳ cigarettes like⟳ subtitles — translating the action on the screen into another language which the camera registers but rarely foregrounds, a part of the thickness of the medium which is almost never brought into focus⟳. […] The cigarette in the scene serves as a subtext, a mute caption or subtitle, sometimes accompanying, sometimes contradicting or diverting the explicit premise of the action or the open⟳ meaning of signs.”

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