The pendulum seems to be swinging the other way. A friend is preparing a manuscript for a university press and reports that they have been instructing her to remove all sorts of jargon, or else explain it at each turn. By “jargon,” I don’t mean nebulous critical theory terms that have debatable referents. Rather, terms like “profilmic,” which have rather specific meanings* and which readers exposed to a couple of intro to film classes should have been exposed to. It’s jargon in the best sense of condensing a specific idea into a single word and is no more an abuse than “diegetic”, or for that matter “medium closeup”.
*Profilmic refers to the events, people, and objects recorded by the camera, or to the nature of existence before being captured and framed by the camera.
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