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 cinematics
[ U ]
the art of making films or the study of this:
The chapter on cinematics draws on film theory to discuss cinema and the male gaze.
Many colleges offer less traditional subjects, such as cinematics, photography, sports science, and tourism.
[ plural ]
in video games, the way in which a story is told that makes it similar to a film, especially by using scenes in which the player cannot take any action:
The game owes a lot to the cinematics of Resident Evil.
The function of the prelude is what would be called in video-game terminology "cinematics".
The ads for the game only show cinematics, not a lot of gameplay.
The story is so simple you can skip the cinematics and not miss anything.
There's some quality voice acting in the cinematics.
What's your favourite video game cinematic?
The new version of the game includes epic cinematic sequences.

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Cinema - general words

Examples of cinematic

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In other songs, shared multiple codes allow for different and perhaps more subtle forms of religious and cinematic meanings to be constructed.
This was usually achieved through the use of theme songs or anthems, tracks that fashioned a uniquely 'cinematic' treatment of instrumentation and text.
Its role in the tension of favela misrepresentation is simultaneously a role in its own misrepresentation, a cinematic fate spared rap in 1999.
This contrasted sharply with the promotional and propagandistic uses to which cinematic documentary was often put during the 1930s and 1940s.
The suture effect in turn determines our own cinematic subjectivity, positioning us as sympathetic with the on-screen listening subject.
Parallels with cinematic devices can be seen in the orchestration of this spatial sequence.
Specifically, it explores the role of music in the construction of cinematic subjectivity and cinema's potential to engage with our understanding of musical subjectivity.
The new cinematic technologies mesmerized audiences in ways that the most imaginative showman could never hope to with his primitive animation efforts.
During the narrative a functional slippage occurs between music, the product of a performed moment on screen, and music, the cinematic tool of narrative characterization.
For the earliest films, there did not yet exist any localized cinema architecture especially designed for cinematic presentation.
Yet, to be effective and make sense, cinematic codes must also rely on cultural musical codes that are prevalent outside cinema in the wider community.
Films that take music as their central subject raise special questions about the role of music in cinematic representation.
Slippages of musical function are not unusual in cinematic narrative.
It is above all an inherently dramatic, almost cinematic conceptualization.
Rather, the cinematic record of his experiences serves as a shared memory, between him and the viewers who are empathizing with his experiences.
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