filmology

Etymology
1949, from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A 1950s–60s movement of theoretical study relating to film.
 * 2) * 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:
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 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 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.