cinematize

[ sin-uh-muh-tahyz ]

verb (used with or without object)

, cin·e·ma·tized, cin·e·ma·tiz·ing.

1. to adapt (a novel, play, etc.) for motion pictures.
2. Chiefly British. cinematograph ( def 3 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of cinematize¹

cinema + (drama)tize

Example Sentences

“Another Dance Film” is part of a fascinating trend to strip dance of artifice by cinematizing it in outdoor settings.

From Washington Post

I need to cinematize this, all of this.

From Literature

And a generation of modern viewers, their inner lives cinematized from childhood on, knows it.

From The New Yorker

They revolutionized the cinema while also cinematizing the world; they created a new form of cinematic consciousness that was increasingly the leading mindset of the times.

From The New Yorker

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.

From New York Times

Related Words

• capture
• illustrate
• print
• reproduce
• shoot