"cinematic expression" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is a broad term that can refer to a variety of ways of creating a film narrative, such as mise-en-scène, visual effects, cinematography, and editing. For example, you could say, "The director's use of long shots and limited dialogue was a powerful cinematic expression of the character's feelings of isolation."
Cheap, portable, easy to use, the new technology puts cinematic expression in reach of the masses.
"But then you realise all that technology is just a tool for the cinematic expression you want to convey.
There are filmmakers whose work is characterized by thrift, efficiency and devotion to the subtleties of cinematic expression.
The structure of "Chunhyang" that goes between the performance and purely cinematic expression, many people find it a crazy idea, to go back and forth between the narrative and the performance and then go back to the narrative again.
It was also the last time that Stan's libido was given full-blown cinematic expression though, in private life, Laurel had four wives, was married five times and went through eight wedding ceremonies.
Certain basic traits of motion pictures may operate with the logic of natural language, but few theorists have held that cinematic expression follows rules like those of natural language.
As foreign-language films that appear in the United States are increasingly marginalized by the Hollywood-dominated marketplace, a festival like New Directors/New Films -- a joint presentation of the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center -- becomes one of the few cinematic expressions of a global perspective.
Babette's Feast was credited with inspiring other cinematic expressions of food as a metaphor for human love, such as Alfonso Arau's Como agua para chocolate (1992; Like Water for Chocolate) and Ang Lee's Yin shi nan nu (1994; Eat Drink Man Woman).
We see various television and cinematic expressions of these stories that have melded these characters into indestructible pillars of popular culture.
The imagery in his novels is largely cinematic, with expressions such as "fade in/fade out", "quick cut" and "VistaVision"; and sentences such as "a montage traces the next fifteen years" and "If the last reel of Cheryl's life had been a CinemaScope Technicolor movie ... .....
Some writers, particularly in France, have tried to narrow the gap between the written and cinematic modes of expression.
