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film-craft

film-craft

English

Alternative forms

  • filmcraft, film craft

Noun

film-craft (usually uncountable, plural film-crafts)

  1. The art or craft of making movies; cinematography.
    • 1977, The Feminist Art Journal:
      Perhaps none of the other filmcrafts, excepting costumes, have been so comparatively open to, and often dominated by, Hollywood's women.
    • 1980, Kishore Valicha, The Moving Image: A Study of Indian Cinema:
      Almost all techniques of film-craft have been tried out in Hollywood, and the result has been near perfection of cinematic art.
    • 2008, François Truffaut, Ronald Bergan, François Truffaut: Interviews:
      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.