Meanings
nounart house (plural art houses)
plural art houses
- A cinema that shows art films and foreign films which are not widely distributed.
Practically nothing has yet been reported in detail about audiences who attend the art house—a relatively new and growing institution on the American cinematic scene.
1953, D. W. Smythe et al., “Portrait of an Art-Theater Audience,”, in The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television, volume 8, number 1, page 28
Translations
French salle d'art et d'essai
- salle d'art et d'essaia cinema that shows art films and foreign films which are not widely distributed
Polish kino studyjne, galeria sztuki
- kino studyjnea cinema that shows art films and foreign films which are not widely distributed
- galeria sztukia building or gallery in which works of art are collected, displayed, and offered for sale
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