seventh art

Etymology


, which was by the Italian film theoretician  (1877–1923) in 1921,  considering filmmaking to be a new art combining the six previous arts of architecture, sculpture, painting, music, dance, and poetry. Canudo had previously used the term to describe filmmaking around 1911 when he did not include dance in the set of preceding arts.

Noun

 * 1)  The art of making motion pictures; filmmaking; cinema.

Translations

 * Finnish: seitsemäs taide, seitsemäs taiteenlaji
 * French:
 * Italian: settima arte
 * Polish: filmoznawstwo