English
Noun
seventh art (uncountable)
- The making of motion pictures; filmmaking.
- 1948, Jacques Queval, "Three French Histories of Film" (book reviews), Hollywood Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, p. 454,
- Georges Charensol's Panorama du cinema, originally published in 1927, . . . was the bible of devotees of the seventh art.
- 2004, Barry Keith Grant, "Diversity or Dilution? Thoughts on Film Studies and the SCMS," Cinema Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, p. 90,
- Because of the inherent interdisciplinarity of studying film—once called, appositely, the "seventh art"—film studies was among the first disciplines to embrace such theories and methodologies as feminism, semiotics, and structuralism.
- 2008, Richard Corliss and Mary Corliss, "Can Cannes Still Do It?," Time, 14 May,
- Cannes is the world's largest annual convention, and a yearly thermometer for the temperature of the seventh art.