Meanings
- uncountableEnthusiasm for or obsession with movies.
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 652 more examples
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 127If 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
Origin
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