Plural of cineaste; multiple film enthusiasts or devotees of cinema.
French plural form of 'cinéaste.' The retention of the French spelling in English demonstrates how this term remained connected to European film culture and intellectual criticism.
The fact that English borrowed both the singular and plural forms directly from French shows cinema's deep roots in French cultural criticism—they invented the serious study of film as art.
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