Cineliteracy

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Familiarity with films and cinema. uncountable

    "It's easy to caricature Tarantino as a film geek cocooned in cineliteracy - but hard to think of another art form in which knowledge of the medium would be disparaged like this."

Example

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"It's easy to caricature Tarantino as a film geek cocooned in cineliteracy - but hard to think of another art form in which knowledge of the medium would be disparaged like this."

Etymology

From cine- + literacy.

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