ciné veritéadj.n.
/ˌsɪnɪ ˈvɛrᵻteɪ/, /ˌsiːneɪ ˈvɛrɪteɪ/, U.S. /ˌsɪni ˌvɛriˈteɪ/, /siˈneɪ ˌvɛriˈteɪ/ A. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of ciné vérité (see sense B.); = cinéma vérité adj.
ΚΠ
1963 Vie des Arts No. 32. 84/2 The film, reportedly a cinema autobiography in the cine-verite tradition, is acted by a cast made up entirely of French-Canadians.
1969 C. Booker Neophiliacs vii. 178 The frenziedly cut ciné-vérité film clips, urgent music and clamant narrative of Granada's current affairs programme.
2013 I. Franklin in J. Jacobs & S. Peacock Television Aesthetics & Style xxii. 294 The preference for the disjunctive, poetic ‘mode’..managed to surmount the burgeoning cine vérité style, which had permeated television broadcasting in America.
B. n.
A style of filmmaking characterized by realistic, typically documentary, films; = cinéma vérité n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [noun] > films or the cinema > movements or genres
neo-realism1908
screwballism1942
Free Cinema1956
nouvelle vague1959
New Wave1960
cinéma vérité1961
Cinema Novo1963
romcom1963
ciné verité1965
teensploitation1983
1965 R. Manvell What is a Film? i. 13 The movement known as ciné-vérité exposes whole reels of film on its chosen subjects, later reducing hours of raw material to manageable viewing lengths in the cutting-room.
1986 Cinema Jrnl. 25 45 ‘Lived experience’ does not in this case lead to ciné-verité but is submitted to a highly formalized, elaborated dramatic and emotional structure.
2000 Financial Times 12 Aug. (Weekend section) p.xxi/6 The Name of This Film is Dogma 95, a look at the Danish film-makers whose school of austerity (no artificial lighting, actual locations, minimal resources) makes ciné-vérité look like Liberace's drawing-room.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1963