film industry
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2.4
- noun
- /fɪlm ˈɪndəstri/
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industria cinematográfica
- Innovations in technology are changing how the film industry produces and distributes movies.
- U.S. film industry
- Mexican film industry
- French film industry
For too long the adult film industry has gotten real lesbian romance wrong.
- For too long the adult film industry has gotten real lesbian romance wrong.
- And the problem is that for years before that, you had the kind of Christian film industry.
- That is the moment I fell in love with the film industry because I loved the simplicity of that.
- And if that weren't bad enough, this past week the film industry awakened to a scandal that has rocked us to our core.
- Especially in the film industry, I believe audiences love seeing characters and the real people that they can relate with.
- It feels like this could happen in the film industry too.
- That's exactly how I view a no in the film industry.
- And their visits, we'll call them that, often involve them coming in and going, oh, it's for the film industry.
Examples
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Of course, Los Angeles was where the film industry was beginning to settle as a home.
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The film series demonstrates the typical way in which the Hong Kong film industry adapts Chinese literary classics.
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-You got any family in the film industry?
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Still, they might find him interesting, being in the film industry.
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And they and Peter Jackson had created an entire film industry to service his vision of Lord of the Rings.
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"I'm pretty sure I want to end up in the film industry," he says.
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Most notably, the film industry in the United States began testing wider film stock.
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It's something that any aspiring person who wants to work in the film industry should read.
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The whole reason there is almost any film industry in Northern California is solely because of Francis Coppola.
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Critical scrutiny was evident in film industry commentary on sound, which had seemed to lag behind developments in cinematography.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
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2.5
A business that makes and shows films for people to watch
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7.6
People and companies that make movies
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8.9
The world of movies and the people who make them
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The world of movies and the people who make them
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6.5
A name for Hollywood and the movie world as a glamorous place
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the sector involved in producing, distributing, and exhibiting movies' is directly and compositionally derived from 'film' (movie) + 'industry' (business sector). This noun–noun combination is a transparent, productive pattern found across many languages (e.g., industria cinematográfica, industrie du film) so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Film industry joins film, which means 'movies', and industry, which means 'the business that makes things'. The picture to remember is a business that makes and sells films, so film industry means all the companies and people who make, sell, and show 'movies'.