film studies (cinema studies, cinematology, screen studies)
Scholarly inquiry into, and academic study of, *cinema, *film, and films. The earliest serious critical writings on film and cinema began to appear soon after the birth of the medium itself; and the 1920s saw the publication of the first historical accounts of cinema and the launch of a number of critical journals and other publications devoted entirely to the medium (... ...
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