cinematographic
- adjective
- /ˌsɪnəˈmætəˌgræfɪk/
- The film's stunning visuals and dramatic lighting created a cinematographic experience that captivated the audience.
- use of cinematographic
Examples
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In representing working-class homes, the garish exaggerations Danny Boyle relies on contrast with Ken Loach's black-and-white cinematographic realism in ways that seem representative of the end of an era.
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Out of them, the first one, named the temporal series, includes the moving pictures or cinematographic films and is not applicable to the current research.
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The cinematographic industry was also much affected by the new technologies.
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In other words, the painting consists of juxtaposed frames that produce a cinematographic tracking effect.
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Brazil, in particular, has become noted for a more cinematographic style in its telenovelas, involving more exterior scenes, more varied shots, and more action scenes.
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However, the motion picture in fact incorporates the late 1960s Tropicalia aesthetic into a cinematographic idiom.
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Since 1932, Venice Lido has been hosting the "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art" of the Biennale.
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A lifelong movie fan whose multifaceted career has included film direction, Manet makes frequent use of both cinematographic techniques and intertextual references to film in his stage plays.
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As suggested earlier, a naturalistic approach to image making has become less common, as seen, for example, in the cinematographic work of Nestor Almendros (awarded best cinematography for Days of Heaven, 1978).
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Traditionally, these latter elements are part of an earlier cinematographic approach, where all the formal elements that constitute the image merge in unison in the lens as the cinematographer searches for an intimate encounter with the spontaneous.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
Having the look of a film, with dramatic wide shots
Having the look and feel of a movie
About the look and style of movies
Having the style and mood of a movie
Like the look of a movie
How Cinematic
Surface Forms
Morphology
cinematographic = cinematography (transparent) = cinematography + ic
Formed from the noun 'cinematography' with the adjective-forming suffix '-ic'; meaning 'relating to film' is directly derived.
Etymology
Cinematographic comes from cinema, which comes from a Greek root meaning 'move', and the ending -graphic, as in photograph, meaning 'to record'. So the word originally meant 'recording movement', which is exactly what movies do, and that's why something cinematographic looks like a film scene.