David, I completely disagree with you! - while taking your point about
dictionaries, but who would want to trust them?? 'Cineaste' means filmmaker
and 'cinephile' means film-lover - as with all similar terms ending in
'-phile' and '-aste'; it is only the corruption of language in its social
use - particularly, let us be clear, in the USA! - which has scrambled these
terms, and we should be trying to reverse the damage, not encourage it!!!
The fine critic Gilbert Adair wrote a piece way back in 1980 trying to halt
the rot on this particular abuse of French-into-American. Saying that a
cineaste is the same as a cinephile is like saying that mise en scene is the
same as montage!! I actually persuaded the magazine CINEASTE (with which
David and I are both involved) to change an article subtitle's reference to
D. Thomson as 'backsliding cineaste' to 'backsliding cinephile'! So there!
fighting Adrian !
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