film-craft

plural film-crafts · alternative filmcraft · alternative film craft

1. uncountableusuallyThe art or craft of making movies; cinematography.

   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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   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