He devoured the films of the 1940s and '50s and has called cinema his "basic language."

The Maysles brothers were pioneers in what is called direct cinema.

The filmmakers said that the film created a new genre in filmmaking, called naked cinema.

Blair calls his low-budget high-tech approach 'electronic cinema' and says it will be the form of the Nineties for creative independents.

He has expressed dislike of the term, preferring his work to be called New or Alternate cinema.

Scattered about were rooms called dark room, cinema and library - but were not.

It is sometimes called observational cinema, if understood as pure direct cinema: mainly without a narrator's voice-over.

Yet because he has such command of craft, his films leap beyond politics, beyond genre, to a life in what might be called pure cinema.

It can be called "cinema in silhouette".

There are a lot of realistic filmmakers back in India and they make the kind of films we call parallel cinema.