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moviemania en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From movie + -mania.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Enthusiasm for or obsession with movies.
    • If one walked into New York's largest department stores toward the end of 1929 one could find abundant evidence of the penetration of Hollywood fashions, as well as a virulent form of moviemania. 2004, Charles Eckert, “The Carole Lombard in Macy's window”, in Thomas Schatz, editor, Hollywood: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, Routledge, →ISBN, volume 2, part 6, chapter 29, 183:
    • Franklin had a far worse case of moviemania than I — a childhood spent scouring video stores and sitting in art houses. 2004, Martha Sherrill, My Last Movie Star, Random House, →ISBN, page 65:
    • They both agree that they were literally forced into all this by the moviemania and supersalesmanship of young Sam Goldwyn — which is the way Goldwyn remembers it too. 1947 October 27, Roger Butterfield, “Sam Goldwyn”, in Life, page 127: