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high_concept

high concept

English

Noun

high concept (plural high concepts)

  1. (of a film, book, etc.) An appealing idea for a work that can be understandably summarized in a few sentences or less.
    • 1994, Justin Wyatt, High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood, University of Texas Press, ISBN 0292727941
      Spielberg's opinion relates well to the vision of high concept expressed by other Hollywood representatives: a striking, easily reducible narrative which also offers a high degree of marketability.