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film-craft en · NOUN

Etymology

From film + -craft.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The art or craft of making movies; cinematography.
   • Perhaps none of the other filmcrafts, excepting costumes, have been so comparatively open to, and often dominated by, Hollywood's women. 1977, The Feminist Art Journal:
   • I think it would be possible to make La Nuit Americaine as a first film. Experience and film-craft are required and one obviously has less film-craft at the beginning of one's career. 2008, François Truffaut, Ronald Bergan, François Truffaut: Interviews:
   • Almost all techniques of film-craft have been tried out in Hollywood, and the result has been near perfection of cinematic art. 1980, Kishore Valicha, The Moving Image: A Study of Indian Cinema:

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