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Definition: Cinema |
CinemaNoun1. A medium (art or business) that disseminates moving pictures: "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverange of sporting events". 2. A theater where films are shown. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cinema" was first used: 1899. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Fine Arts | FG. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
See also Anime, Film history, Japanese Academy Awards
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Akira Kurosawa (directed Seven Samurai, Tora Tora Tora, Yojimbo, Rashomon)
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Nagisa Oshima
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Takashi Miike
- Kitano Takeshi
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cinema of Japan."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Initially, moving pictures meant only the movement that is perceived when a string of celluloid-recorded images are projected at a rate of about 16 or more frames per second (see persistence of vision). Today, motion pictures (or "movies") are an art form, as well as one of the most popular forms of entertainment.A feature film is usually defined as being more than 60 minutes in length.
Opportunities to see a feature film include:
- going to a movie theater
- watching it on television
- renting or buying a video tape or DVD
- downloading one from the Internet and watching it on a computer display
History of cinema
Originally moving picture film was shot at various speeds using hand-cranked cameras; then the speed for mechanized cameras and projectors was standardized at 16 frames per second, which was faster than much existing hand-cranked footage. A new standard speed, 24 frames per second, came with the introduction of sound. Improvements since the late 1800s include the mechanization of cameras, allowing them to record at a consistent speed, the invention of more sophisticated filmstocks and lenses, allowing directors to film in increasingly dim conditions, and the development of synch sound, allowing sound to be recorded at exactly the same speed as its corresponding video. Since the advent of many other media technologies, film may include a broad range of media — both linear and non-linear, dramatic and informational, motion and still (though progressive).
List of movie-related topics
Film people
- Actors
- Film crew
- film criticism
- Film directors
- Screenwriter
- Movie studio
- Experimental filmmaker
- Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince
- Etienne-Jules Marey
Classification by chronology
- List of 'years in film'
- 1960s movies
- 1970s movies
- 1980s movies
- 1990s movies
- 2000s movies
Classification by geographical location of production
- Cinema of Albania
- Cinema of Argentina
- Cinema of Australia
- Cinema of Brazil
- Cinema of Canada
- Cinema of Chile
- Cinema of China
- Cinema of the Czech republic
- Cinema of Egypt
- Cinema of France
- Cinema of Germany
- Cinema of India (Bollywood, Kollywood, Malayalam cinema)
- Cinema of Indonesia
- Cinema of Iran
- Cinema of Italy
- Cinema of Japan
- Cinema of Malaysia
- Cinema of Mexico
- Cinema of Nepal (Woodmandu,Documentry cinema)
- Cinema of New Zealand
- Cinema of Quebec
- Cinema of Russia
- Cinema of South Africa
- Cinema of South Korea
- Cinema of Sweden
- Cinema of Turkey
- Cinema of the United States (Hollywood)
External links, references, and resources
simple:Cinema
- Netflix Online DVD Rentals Rent DVDs online with no late fees or return dates
- The IMDb (Internet Movie Database) for information on specific motion pictures.
- Rotten Tomatoes for an overview of reviews of a film
- Ain't It Cool News
- The Open Movie Database
- Yahoo! Movies for information on specific movies, including upcoming movies by title, date, actor at Greg's Previews
- Box Office Mojo for box office figures by date, genre, etc. including box office records
- NEPALI FILMfor new movie to discuss
- The Numbers for box office figures by movie, actor, etc. including box office records
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Film."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A movie theater or cinema is a location, usually a building, for viewing movies. in particular one for the general public: one can enter after buying a ticket. There are often several rooms, each showing another movie.There are a variety of movie theatres:
Some movie theaters are converted from conventional theaters, and some theaters may be temporarily converted to show movies.
- First-Run Theatre: A theatre that runs primarily mainstream film fare from the major film companies and distributors in their initial release period.
- Second Run or Discount Theatre: A theatre that runs films that have been pulled from the first run theatres and presented at a lower ticket price.
- Repertoire or Art House Theatre: A theatre that presents more alternative and art films as well as second run and classic films.
- IMAX Theatre: A variant theatre which uses an oversized screen and high power projection and typically runs films designed for this format.
Some movie theaters are outdoors and so can only be used when it is dark. A drive-in movie theater is basically a parking lot with a screen at one end and a projection booth at the other. Moviegoers drive into the parking spaces which are usually provided with portable loudspeakers or the vehicle's sound system over which the soundtrack is played, and the movie is viewed through the car windscreen. Drive-in movies were mainly found in the United States, and were especially popular in the 1950s and 1960s, but are now almost extinct.
Some outdoor movie theaters are just cleared areas where the audience sits upon chairs or blankets and watch the movie on a temorary screen, or even the wall of a convenient building.
According to motion picture rating systems, children or teenagers below a certain age may be forbidden access to theaters showing certain movies, or simply subject to parental guidance.
Sometimes couples go to a movie theater for the additional reason that it provides the possibility of some physical intimacy, where the dark provides some privacy (with additional privacy in the back-row). This applies in particular for young people who still live with their parents, and these parents tend to monitor and/or forbid certain activities. Compared with being together in a room without other people, it may also be reassuring for one or both of the couple (and for parents) that the intimacy is necessarily limited.
Arm rests may be a hindrance for intimacy. Some theaters have love seats: seats for two without armrest in the middle.
Movie theaters usually sell various snack foods and drinks which often represents the real income of the business. Some movie theaters forbid eating and drinking inside the viewing room (they are restricted to the lobby), while others encourage it, e.g. by selling large portions of popcorn.
See also: film, nickelodeon
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Movie theater."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CIC | English | Cinema International Corporation | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CinemaSynonyms: celluloid (n), film (n), movie house (n), movie theater (n), movie theatre (n), picture palace (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
The Drama | Noun: the drama, the stage, the theater, the play; film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography; theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus, Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cinema |
| English words defined with "cinema": agitprop, apparent motion, apparent movement, Astaire ♦ cinematic ♦ film star, Fred Astaire ♦ house ♦ motion, movement, movie star ♦ New Wave, Nouvelle Vague. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cinema": broadcast quality video. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cinema" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (cinema, movie theatre), Italian (cinema, films, movie, movie theatre, movies, picture, silver screen), Occitan (cinema), Portuguese (cine, cinema, close-up, movie theater, movie theatre, movies, moving pictures, picture show, playhouse), Romanian (cinema, film, kinema, movie theatre, movies, picture, picture house, picture palace, picture show, picture theatre, picturedom, pix), Spanish (cinema). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I am here to inform these modern times of the grammatical era's end and the beginning of flamboyance especially in cinema. (Week End; writing credit: Jean-Luc Godard) Photography is truthand cinema is truth 24 times a second (Petit soldat, Le; writing credit: Jean-Luc Godard) Death to mainstream cinema! (Cecil B. DeMented; writing credit: John Waters) And punish bad cinema! (Cecil B. DeMented; writing credit: John Waters) | |
Lyrics | The next thing I know we're down at the cinema (Don't Say You Love Me; performing artist: M2M) | |
Movie/TV Titles | 75 Years of Cinema Museum (1972) Part 1 Violence In the Cinema (1971) The Pictures That Moved: Australian Cinema 1896-1920 (1968) Il Cinema nella mia vita (1967) | |
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 | War in Lebanon : a production of the-- Palestinian Cinema Institution. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hani Jawharieh, the militant cinema martyr. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Le cinema" by Michael Wojciechowski Commentary: "Empty cinema." | "Delphi cinema" by MICHAEL HOMBURG CLAN.DREI Commentary: "Cinema in berlin." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Horror; cinema; soundtrack; clackety. | | Cinema; nonchalant; airy; aloof; apathetic; blase; calm; careless; casual; cold; collected; composed; cool; detached; disimpassioned; disinterested; dispassionate; easy; effortless; frigid; happy; impassive; imperturbable; incurious; indifferent; insoucia. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Robert Bresson | Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The cinema attendance has dropped off over the past several years due to a lack of modernization efforts. (references) | |
Other highlights at Bluewater include a 12-screen Hoyts cinema multiplex with stadium style seating, an evening lounge and numerous bars, outdoor boating and ice skating, cycling, indoor rock climbing and late night entertainment. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Senegal | Police and gendarmes were present at the cinema, and no acts of violence occurred. (references) |
Senegal | Members of the brotherhood, some armed with clubs, gathered outside a cinema in Dakar and demanded the withdrawal of the film. (references) | |
Economic History | Lebanon | Other mediums include print, billboards, radio and cinema. (references) |
Political Economy | REPUBLIC OF KOREA | The quota acts as a deterrent to imported films, cinema construction, and the expansion of theatrical distribution. (references) |
SPAIN | Motion Picture Screen Quotas and Dubbing Licenses: In 1997, the government adopted implementing regulations for the 1994 Cinema Law, which reserved a portion of the theatrical market for EU-produced films. (references) | |
FINLAND | Medicines, books, passenger transportation, accommodation, TV licenses, admission fees to cultural and entertainment events, cinema performances and use of sporting facilities are taxed at an eight percent rate. (references) | |
Trade | Spain | Legislation affecting cinema productions include January 2000 legislation setting film screen quotas. (references) |
Worker Rights | Jordan | Hotel, restaurant, and cinema employees may work up to 54 hours per week. (references) |
Greece | The minimum age is 12 years in family businesses, theaters, and the cinema. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cinema" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.68% of the time. "Cinema" is used about 1,833 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.68% | 1,717 | 4,887 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.32% | 116 | 29,969 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,833 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Cinema Plus Limited | USA | Cinema Ride, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "cinema": cinema actress ♦ cinema advertising ♦ cinema audience ♦ cinema eye ♦ cinema film ♦ cinema lover ♦ cinema performance ♦ cinema verite ♦ cinema visit ♦ digital cinema ♦ drive in cinema ♦ extra in cinema ♦ go to the cinema ♦ multiplex cinema ♦ news cinema ♦ the cinema. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cinema": cinema-as-drug, Cinema-city, cinema-goer, cinema-goers, cinema-going, cinema-hall, cinema-like, cinema-quality, cinema-scope, cinema-screen, cinema-test, cinema-type, cinema-viewing. | |
Ending with "cinema": counter-cinema, mini-cinema. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
regal cinema | 9,556 | cinema craft | 174 |
cinema | 2,999 | loews cinema | 170 |
edwards cinema | 1,192 | cafe cinema | 159 |
hoyts cinema | 680 | cinema odeon | 150 |
carmike cinema | 583 | cinema rainbow | 150 |
showcase cinema | 420 | hollywood cinema | 140 |
new line cinema | 405 | cinema paradiso | 120 |
cinema guzzo | 403 | adult cinema | 115 |
general cinema | 401 | cinema city | 113 |
cinema montreal | 388 | cinema golden screen | 104 |
cinema craft encoder | 374 | edward cinema | 103 |
celebration cinema | 350 | ugc cinema | 99 |
cinema 4d | 271 | amc cinema | 97 |
star cinema | 254 | market street cinema | 94 |
marcus cinema | 239 | cinema grill | 93 |
tamil cinema | 225 | uci cinema | 92 |
movie cinema | 220 | lowes cinema | 91 |
home cinema | 189 | surrender cinema | 90 |
world cinema | 180 | flagship cinema | 87 |
cinema galaxy | 178 | clearview cinema | 87 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "cinema"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | fliekhuis (movie, movie theatre), bioskoop (movie, movie theatre). (various references) | |
Albanian | kinema (movie, movie theatre, movies). (various references) | |
Arabic | فيلم سينمائي, سينما (pic), صناعة السينما, صالة (hole), السينما (movie theater). (various references) | |
Basque | zinema. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кинотеатър (movie house), кино (motion picture, movies, moving pictures, picture palace, picture theatre, pix, the pictures), кинематография (cinematography, movies, moving pictures). (various references) | |
Chinese | 電影院 (movie theater), 戏院 (theatre). (various references) | |
Cornish | gwaya-mýr. (various references) | |
Czech | kino (movie house, the pictures, theatre). (various references) | |
Danish | biograf (movie theatre). (various references) | |
Dutch | bioscoop (movie theatre), cinema (movie theatre). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kino, kinejo (movie theatre). (various references) | |
Faeroese | kykmyndahøll (movie theatre). (various references) | |
Farsi | سینما (Movie, Picture). (various references) | |
Finnish | elokuvateatteri (picture theatre), elokuvat (the movies, the pictures). (various references) | |
French | cinéma. (various references) | |
German | Kino (movie, movie house, movie theater, movie theatre, movies), lichtspielhaus (picture palace). (various references) | |
Greek | σινεμά (flicks). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | kinema (movie theatre). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קולנוע (motion picture, screen), אולם קולנוע, בית קולנוע (movie house, picture palace), ראינוע (motion picture). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mozi (movie, movie house, movie theatre, movie/cinema, movies, moving pictures, picture palace, pictures, the pictures). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bioskop (movie, theater). (various references) | |
Italian | cinema (films, movie, movie theatre, movies, picture, silver screen), cinese (Chinaman, Chinese), cinematografo (movies). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 映画館 (movie theatre), シップエア方式 (chiffon, chignon style, cine mode, cine sign, cinefilm, cinema complex, CinemaScope, Cinerama, cineraria, cinnamon, citron, city, city air terminal, city boy, city gal, city guide, city hall, city pops, civic, civic center, civic trust, civil minimum, civilian control, civilization, cynic, cynical, cynicism, move into low gear, scenario, scenario writer, senior, severe, shift, shift dress, shift in, shift key, shift out, shift-JIS, ship air system, Sinanthropus pekinensis, sine curve, sinusoide, Sydney, synagogue, synapse, synergy, synonym, synopsis), 常設館 (movie theater). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | シネマ , じょうせつかん (movie theater), えいがかん (movie theatre). (various references) | |
Korean | 영화관. (various references) | |
Malay | wang gambar (movie theatre), layar putih (movie theatre), bioskop (movie theatre). (various references) | |
Manx | thie scannane, thie jalloo (picture palace, picture theatre), scannaneaght, kinemey. (various references) | |
Norwegian | kino (movie theatre). (various references) | |
Occitan | cinema. (various references) | |
Papiamen | cine (movie theatre). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inemacay.(various references) | |
Polish | sztuka filmowa, kino (movie theatre). (various references) | |
Portuguese | cinema (cine, close-up, movie theater, movie theatre, movies, moving pictures, picture show, playhouse). (various references) | |
Romanian | cinema (film, kinema, movie theatre, movies, picture, picture house, picture palace, picture show, picture theatre, picturedom, pix). (various references) | |
Romansch | kino. (various references) | |
Romany | kinos. (various references) | |
Russian | кино (celluloid, cine, film, movie, movie theatre, movies, moving pictures, pictures). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | film (film, motion picture, movie, picture: moving pictures), bioskop (drive in, movie house, movies, picture palace, picture theatre). (various references) | |
Spanish | cine (cine, movie house, movie theater, movie theatre, movies, picture house, picture palace, picture theatre, pictures, screen). (various references) | |
Sranan | kino (movie theatre). (various references) | |
Swedish | biograf (biographer, cinematograph, movie, movie house, movie theater, movie theatre, picture house, picture palace), bio (movie, the pictures). (various references) | |
Thai | โรงภาพยนต์. (various references) | |
Turkish | sinema (cine-, cinematography, flicks, movie house, movie theater, movies, picture palace, picture theatre, pictures, silver screen, the movies, theater, theatre), sínema (movie theatre). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кінотеатр (movie, picture theater, picture theatre), кіно (film, movie, pictures), кінематографія (cinematography, pictures), кінематограф (cinematograph). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xi nê, rạp xi nê, rạp chiếu bóng $the cinema$ điện ảnh, phim chiếu bóng nghệ thuật điện ảnh, kỹ thuật điện ảnh. (various references) | |
Welsh | sinema (movie theatre). (various references) | |
Zulu | ilibhayisikobho (movie theatre), ibhayisikobho (movie theatre). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kinema. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cinema": cinemagoer, cinemagoers, cinemas, cinematheque, cinematheques, cinematic, cinematically, cinematize, cinematized, cinematizes, cinematizing, cinematograph, cinematographer, cinematographers, cinematographic, cinematographically, cinematographies, cinematographs, cinematography. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cinema": uncinematic. (additional references) | |
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"Cinema" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Binnema, canem, Caneva, carnoma, cenomarv, Chinama, Chinela, Cienega, cienna, Cieza, Cineemaaa, cinem, Cinemax, cineme, cinera, cinia, cinima, cinnema, Cinoa, Cogema, Cunene, Cyaneka, cykeman, Dinampa, Einem, einema, inema, Kenema, kinema, Kinima, Kinunda, Shigemi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cinema" (pronounced si"numu) |
| 4 | -n u m u | enema. |
| 3 | -u m u | anathema, eczema, maxima, optima, Ultima. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: anemic, iceman. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-m-n" | |
-1 letter: amice, amine, amnic, anime, manic, minae, mince. | |
-2 letters: acme, acne, amen, amie, amin, cain, came, cane, cine, emic, mace, main, mane, mean, mica, mice, mien, mina, mine, name, nema, nice. | |
-3 letters: ace, aim, ain, ami, ane, ani, cam, can, ice, mac, mae, man, men, nae, nam, nim. | |
-4 letters: ae, ai, am, an, em, en. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-m-n" | |
+1 letter: amnesic, anaemic, carmine, cinemas, encomia, machine, melanic, nematic, pemican. | |
+2 letters: ambiance, ambience, amercing, amnesiac, amnesics, amnestic, analcime, anoxemic, calamine, cameoing, camphine, carmines, chainmen, chairmen, coinmate, comedian, creaming, cremains, daemonic, demoniac, feminacy, germanic, inchmeal, limacine, machined, machines, maenadic, magnesic, magnetic, manciple, manicure, mechanic, melanics, menacing, meniscal, monecian, mycelian, neumatic, nickname, pandemic, pemicans, pemmican, semantic, sycamine. | |
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