cinephobia

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Etymology[edit]

From cine- +‎ -phobia.

Noun[edit]

cinephobia (uncountable)

  1. (film) The fear or hatred of films and the cinema.
    Antonym: cinephilia
    • 2001, C. M. White, Gender and the German Autumn:
      Straud/Hulliet's insistence upon the use of direct sound ... is a very radical example of ... "cinephobia, a revulsion against the commercial film industry and its standard product, the fictional narrative film" (Elsaesser 1996, 25)[.]

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