cinematizev.
/ˈsɪnᵻmətʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈsɪnəməˌtaɪz/ transitive. To adapt (a novel, story, etc.) for the cinema; to make a film of; to portray in film.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [verb (transitive)] > adapt into film
filmize1911
cinematize1914
script1936
adapt1952
to open up1970
to open out1981
1914 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 11 Nov. 3/3 His [sc. Hobart Bosworth's] ‘Wolf Larson’ in London's ‘Sea Wolf’, the first London book he cinematized, was so fine and so true that Mr. London himself pays eloquent tribute to it.
1919 Book Monthly June 457/2 Authors who have the good fortune to have stories cinematized.
1973 Sight & Sound Summer 137/2 The fading out of silence at the end, cinematising horror as a tiny island.
2010 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Apr. c1 A biographical film almost inevitably tilts in sympathy with its subject; that's why so many people object to any effort to cinematize Hitler's life story or Stalin's.
Derivatives
ˈcinematizing n. the action or process of cinematizing something.
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1918 Motion Picture Mag. Feb. 160/2 I remember in the novel, sympathy was entirely with the wife, but this Bob Vignola in his cinematizing has failed to bring out.
1999 Film Q. 53 36/2 That very strategy, Verhoeven's representing the cinematizing of conflict in Starship Troopers and elsewhere, works an interesting and telling twist on Virilio's view of modern warfare.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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