filmable
- adjective
- /ˈfɪlməbl/
- Some things are just not filmable or photographable, and we need to get this memo out not just to America, but around the globe.
Some things are just not filmable or photographable, and we need to get this memo out not just to America, but around the globe.
- Some things are just not filmable or photographable, and we need to get this memo out not just to America, but around the globe.
Examples
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I thought this novel (which I loved) was un-filmable.
Blog text (20) -
Inherent Vice, on the other hand, is easily Pynchon's most filmable novel and would probably make a great movie if handled correctly.
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From that angle, no book is filmable.
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The world is not filmable but already filmed, already representation, already projection.
Academic text (2004) -
To be fair, the "unfilmable book" idea has always been flawed; ever since the invention of cinema, any book has been as "filmable" as any other; it's simply that some would have been more challenging and less believable to try to translate from one medium into the other.
Blog text (27) -
For the documentary cinema, it is a question of constructing a filmable state of the world with—and sometimes against—all existing narrative states of the world.
Academic text (1999) -
Anthropologists have heavily focused on spatial practices in their efforts to adapt ethnography to a globalized world because, despite their translocalism, these still lend themselves to doing filmable ethnography and participating in observable practice.
Academic text (2008) -
Many consider this tale to be filmable due to its rich characters and engaging plot.
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After reading the script, the director decided it was filmable even though it had some complex themes.
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The novel's vivid imagery makes it highly filmable and a likely candidate for adaptation.
Antonyms
How Adaptable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Filmable comes from the simple parts film and -able, where film means 'movie' and -able means 'able to be'. So, filmable means a story that 'can be made into a movie'.