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cinema Definition

cin·ema (sin′ə mə)

noun

a film theater

Etymology: short for cinematograph: see cinematography

cinema Related Forms
cin′·emat′·ic (-mat′ik) adjective cin′·emat′i·cally adverb
cinema Idioms

the cinema

  1. the art or business of making films
  2. films collectively
cinema Synonyms

cinema

n.

  1. Motion pictures

    film(s), the movies, the screen, silver screen; see movie, movies 2.

  2. Motion-picture theater

    movie theater, movie house, multiplex; see auditorium, theater 1.

cinema Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • 1920s: Module 5 Studies in World Cinema German and Soviet cinema of the 1920s.

Preposition: in

  • 1930s: What was the purpose of the cinema in the 1930s - a device to confront the real or a place to escape?

Adjective modifier

  • multiplex: I also give the Green Party's unequivocal opposition to the building of a multiplex cinema at Crystal Palace Park.
  • silent: Super hero ' Simmonds Man ' , was a funny send-up of the early days of silent cinema.
  • Asian: However, now the only opportunity for fans of Asian cinema to buy these movies in their original form is now being threatened.
  • Hindi: But he predicted a very " bright future " for Hindi cinema.
  • Indian: Click here for story SIGNIFICANT women roles in Indian cinema Screen India - India.. .
  • Italian: Ironically, the Fascist industry provided the infrastructure for Italian cinema 's postwar revival.

Modifies a noun

  • goer: The themes just seemed to flow from the composer, and straight into the collective unconscious of millions of cinema goers.
  • newsreel: Lottery funding has put 3,500 hours free to view clips from 60 years of Pathé cinema newsreels.
  • screenings: Cinema screenings for schools, The Nerve Center Monday 17 January, 10.00am - 1.00pm, The Diary of Anne Frank.
  • screen: Britain's biggest cinema screen opened in 1999 at Waterloo's Bullring.
  • ticket: We cannot provide cinema tickets, contact your cinema directly for these.
  • multiplex: Cinema multiplexes offer all the latest blockbusters five or ten times daily.

Noun used with modifier

  • multi-screen: There are also several multi-screen cinema complexes within easy reach.
  • arthouse: Life outside study Around Upper Street you'll discover local arthouse cinemas, theaters and eateries.
  • art-house: Andi Ingle, owner of the Renoir art-house cinema in the center, said he would not welcome any further building work.
  • horror: A great achievement for horror cinema at the time as the film was released unrated, a big gamble that paid off.
  • multiplex: Its major new shopping complex, the Chimes Center, boasts a wide range of shops, cafes and a nine-screen multiplex cinema.
  • three-screen: In 1976 the Odeon was converted to a three-screen cinema.
cinema Quotes

People in this country haven't got the cinema in their bloodöthe real creative talent has been drained off into theatre.

—Richardson,Tony (Cecil Antonio)

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

—Schweitzer, Albert

  If the cinema is any kind of force for social change, then it's a force for the bad, because most films are about one guy with a gun solving a problem.

—Loach, Ken

Most cinema is built along19th-century models.You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James Joyce sometimes. Most of the cinema we've got is modelled on Dickens and Balzac and Jane Austen.

—Greenaway, Peter

   La photographie, c'est la ve¤  rite¤  . Le cine¤  ma: la ve¤  rite¤   vingt- quatre fois par seconde. Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

—Godard,Jean-Luc

Se comprende muy bien que el advenimiento del cinemato¤  grafo haya sido para m |¤ el comienzo de un nueva era, por la cual cuento las noches sucesivas en que he salido mareado y pa¤  lido del cine, porque he dejado mi corazo¤  n†en la pantalla que impregno¤   por tres cuartos de hora el encanto de BrownieVernon. It is easy to understand that, for me, cinema was the beginning of a newera which marked my nights, oneafter the other, as I left the theatre, dizzyand pale after leaving my heart on thescreen†on that screen that for forty-five minutes was impregnated by BrownieVernon's charm.

—Quiroga, Horacio

Mon fre'  re, en une nuit, avait invente¤   le cine¤  matographe. My brother, in one night, had invented the cinema.

—Lumie'  re, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas