postcinematic

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adjective

After the invention of cinema.

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Meanings

adjectivepostcinematic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableAfter the invention of cinema.
  2. not comparableAfter the decline of cinema.

    For just as we seem to be on the brink of a postcinematic era, we are also, as David Bordwell and Noël Carroll tell us, already in the age of Post-Theory.

    2003, Ivone Margulies, Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema, page 81

Origin

From post- + cinematic.

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APA

postcinematic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postcinematic

MLA

“postcinematic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postcinematic. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postcinematic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postcinematic.

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