filmology
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A 1950s–60s movement of theoretical study relating to film.
Example Sentences
- "[title] International Bureau of Filmology ¶ When the International Film Congress met in Paris in 1947 a plan was approved for the organization of a “Bureau International de Filmologie.”"
- "Pervy's research in filmology may eventually open wider applications of films in modern languages."
- "[title]"
- "So the University of Paris set out to study the science of filmology—after Cohen-Séat's important book had given rise to an institute, a review, and a whole series of investigations."
- "The fourth approach is that of filmology—of the scientific study conducted from outside by psychologists, psychiatrists, aestheticians, sociologists, educators, and biologists. [contrasted with film criticism, the history of the cinema, and the “theory of cinema”]"
- "190: According to Marc Soriano, secretary editor of the institute's review, “Before filmology, one was restricted to verifying a basic truth, that the projection of a film affected the audience. As far as how and why, that was another question. It was thus this ‘how and why’ that the nascent filmology tackled.” 198: This problem of the film spectator, which we have just begun to address, was already at the center of the filmology movement's debates during the 1950s."
Etymology
1949, from French filmologie.