filmology

== English == === Etymology === 1949, from French filmologie. === Proper noun === filmology (film) A 1950s–60s movement of theoretical study relating to film. 1950, Adolphe Pervy, “Filmology Applied to the Fields of Vocabulary Growth and Modern Language Methods”, in Modern Language Forum, v 35 (March–June), pp 42–53: [title] 1992, Jacques Aumont et al, Richand Neupert transl., Aesthetics of Film, University of Texas Press: 190: According to Marc Soriano, secretary editor of the institute's review, “Before filmology, one was restricted to verifying a basic truth, that the projection of a film affected the audience. As far as how and why, that was another question. It was thus this ‘how and why’ that the nascent filmology tackled.” 198: This problem of the film spectator, which we have just begun to address, was already at the center of the filmology movement's debates during the 1950s. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== See also ==== filmmaking