subtitles

Noun

subtitle (plural subtitles)

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

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