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You've probably Seen It a Million Times -- when a movie or TV show wants to show you some important written information, and doesn't want you to be distracted by anything else around it, the relevant text becomes brightly lit with everything else on the screen is cast in shadow, often with sharply-delineated edges. It is frequently seen as a part of Chiaroscuro style.

In some cases it may be so extreme that it resembles Letterboxing.

This is the non-video Game counterpart to Notice This. It is also the diametric opposite of Censor Shadow. While it's one of the signature tropes of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and is thus strongly associated with it, it continues to be used in both film and other visual media to this day.

Compare Eyedscreen.

Not to be confused with italics or boldface.

Film

 * Holiday Inn presents the newspaper listings for the Inn's opening night in this manner.
 * In Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps it appears to happen diagetically, as environmental shadows cast on a newspaper bracket a highlight on the headline of a news story.
 * Similarly, in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, when Uncle Charlie sees the headine "WHERE IS THE MERRY WIDOW MURDERER?", it's shown to the moviegoer bright and crisp, with everything else around it fading away into a shadowed blur.
 * Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington uses this device multiple times on various newspaper headlines and articles.
 * Multiple SIDosis highlights the bit of the reel-to-reel recorder's instruction manual which inspires Sid this way.
 * The newspaper article about the beauty queen's drug overdose in Eyes Wide Shut is given a diagonal highlight the first time it appears on screen.

Live-Action TV

 * The PBS genealogy program Finding Your Roots uses this device to emphasize relevant potions of the various historical documents it has uncovered during its searches and which it then provides to its guests.
 * Done very subtly in some episodes of The Walking Dead. For instance, in "Worth", the penultimate episode of season 8 (broadcast April 8, 2018), Rick looks through his son Carl's letters.  When he stops on one addressed to Negan, there is a faint diagonal highlight over it, running from the upper left corner to the lower right, with "Negan" right in the middle.
 * Netflix's Marvel Cinematic Universe series Luke Cage also does this very subtly when displaying the newspaper articles Misty Knight finds on microfiche in one episode.