Word: cinerati
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...foreign films were at last starting to make a bold impression on the domestic culture. Up to the mid-'40s, foreign films were a cottage industry. Art houses, small theaters in large cities, could be counted in the dozens. They showed French and Soviet films to the cinerati. But there were also many theaters for first- and second-generation immigrants homesick for the kinds of movies they left back in the old country. Hence the foreign-language pictures, typically without subtitles, in German, Greek and Italian neighborhoods...
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