subtitle

CEFRB1

/ˈsʌbtaɪtəl/

noun

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At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

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

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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.
1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9

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