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postcinematic

postcinematic adjective: after the invention of cinema.

Adjective

postcinematic (not comparable)

  1. After the invention of cinema.
  2. After the decline of cinema.
    • For just as we seem to be on the brink of a postcinematic era, we are also, as David Bordwell and Noël Carroll tell us, already in the age of Post-Theory.2003, Ivone Margulies, Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema, page 81

Origin of postcinematic

From post- + cinematic.

Questions about postcinematic

What does postcinematic mean?
Postcinematic means after the invention of cinema.
What part of speech is postcinematic?
Postcinematic is an adjective.

Words near postcinematic in the dictionary

  1. postchorus
  2. postchroming
  3. postcibal
  4. postcibally
  5. postciliary
  6. postcinematic
  7. postcingular
  8. postcingulid
  9. postcingulids
  10. postcingulum
  11. postcircumcision

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