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cin·ema (sin′ə mə)
Related Forms:
- cinematic cin′·emat′·ic (-mat′ik) adjective
- cinematically cin′·emat′i·cally adverb
the cinema
- the art or business of making films
- films collectively
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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
cinema
n.
Motion pictures
film(s), the movies, the screen, silver screen; see movie, movies 2.Motion-picture theater
movie theater, movie house, multiplex; see auditorium, theater 1.
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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.
Modifies a noun
- goer: The themes just seemed to flow from the composer, and straight into the collective unconscious of millions of cinema goers.
Noun used with modifier
- multi-screen: There are also several multi-screen cinema complexes within easy reach.
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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.
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.
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.
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