film-craft

English

Alternative forms

• filmcraft, film craft

Etymology

From film +‎ -craft.

Noun

film-craft (usually uncountable, plural film-crafts)

1. The art or craft of making movies; cinematography.
   • 1977, The Feminist Art Journal:

     Perhaps none of the other filmcrafts, excepting costumes, have been so comparatively open to, and often dominated by, Hollywood's women.

   • 1980, Kishore Valicha, The Moving Image: A Study of Indian Cinema:

     Almost all techniques of film-craft have been tried out in Hollywood, and the result has been near perfection of cinematic art.

   • 2008, François Truffaut, Ronald Bergan, François Truffaut: Interviews:

     I think it would be possible to make La Nuit Americaine as a first film. Experience and film-craft are required and one obviously has less film-craft at the beginning of one's career.