An academic term for the genre of film colloquially known as chick flicks. The genre has three main sub-categories:

1. Classic fairytale - often presented in the guise of romantic comedy. Various thin plot lines, but always culminating in the girl marrying the rich, handsome guy - the 'handsome prince' architype. e.g. Bridget Jones' Diary, Notting Hill, Pretty Woman, and many, many more. This is the most common form of cinema clitera.

2. Reconcilation - with a female friend, sister, mother or daughter, with whom there as been a long-standing feud or alienation. Often ends with one of the lead protagonists dying of a 'fashionable' disease, such as leukemia or a brain tumour, shortly after the reconcilation. e.g. Beaches, Terms of Endearment.

3. Girlies together against the world - various plots but all centre around shared emotional trials and tribulations, often a mix of light weight comedy and schmaltz e.g. Steel Magnolias, Sex in the City.

Interviewer: "Mr Grant, many of your films, perhaps with the exception of 'Maurice', are often dismissed by critics as cinema clitera. What is your response to this?"
Hugh Grant: "Erm, Erm, Erm ..."

cinema clitera by Maeve Bitchy May 27, 2008

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cluttercore

Cluttercore is the aesthetic creating complex piles of clutter, collected goods, or otherwise junk.

Girl: wow, great cluttercore apartment
Guy: thanks, I don't clean

cluttercore by College burnout December 17, 2021

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crittering

One who takes and uses a resource meant for sharing in a manner similar to a small woodland critter, like a squirrel eating food. This person may abscond with food and eat it quickly in hiding, in order to avoid it getting taken from others who may claim it as theirs.

He spotted the girl crittering food at the party and cleverly won a dinner date with her later that night.

crittering by obx2009 June 1, 2009

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