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  • adjective Familiar with films and cinema.

Etymologies

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cine- +‎ literate

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Examples

  • More recently, the League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse showed a superlatively talented, exquisitely cineliterate comedy troupe come a cropper by remaining wedded to their TV repertoire, however many postmodern framing devices they deployed.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Ben Walters 2010

  • More recently, the League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse showed a superlatively talented, exquisitely cineliterate comedy troupe come a cropper by remaining wedded to their TV repertoire, however many postmodern framing devices they deployed.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • More recently, the League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse showed a superlatively talented, exquisitely cineliterate comedy troupe come a cropper by remaining wedded to their TV repertoire, however many postmodern framing devices they deployed.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • More recently, the League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse showed a superlatively talented, exquisitely cineliterate comedy troupe come a cropper by remaining wedded to their TV repertoire, however many postmodern framing devices they deployed.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • A thematic companion piece to Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear, the film nods its cineliterate head toward Otto Preminger's Laura, Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor, and – I would suggest – William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration.

    Martin Scorsese: '3D is liberating. Every shot is rethinking cinema' Mark Kermode 2010

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