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cinephobia en · NOUN

Etymology

From cine- + -phobia.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The fear or hatred of films and the cinema.
    • Straud/Hulliet's insistence upon the use of direct sound ... is a very radical example of ... "cinephobia, a revulsion against the commercial film industry and its standard product, the fictional narrative film" (Elsaesser 1996, 25)[.] 2001, C. M. White, Gender and the German Autumn:

Antonyms

cinephilia

Relateds

cinephobe

Translations (1)

fr cinéphobie (Fear or hatred of films)