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Central casting - Definition and Overview |
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Central casting is the term for the department of a movie studio that is responsible for hiring actors, especially for non-star or uncredited roles and extras. As such, it has developed into a jargon term denoting a generic or or a stereotypical person of some kind, that is now in widespread use outside of the movie business.
Confusingly, Central Casting is also the name of several actual casting agencies, and of a broker for MUSH players.
Central casting is also a jargon term used in the television industry to refer to the act of having news programs for many stations produced at a central facility.
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- "You Won't Find These Definitions in Webster's (http://careerjournal.com./recruiters/workingwith/19990802-lang.html)." Career Journal, Wall Street Journal. Accessed on January 8, 2005. — includes an example of the slang use of "central casting" as applied to the recruitment industry
- "Central Casting (http://www.pbs.org./newshour/bb/media/july-dec03/newscentral_12-11.html)." OnLine NewsHour. Accessed on January 10, 2005. — Central casting of news
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Example Usage of Central |
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