screenlandとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

screen +‎ -land

名詞

screenland (uncountable)

1. The industry of films and filmmaking.
   • 2009, E. J. Fleming, Paul Bern (page 53)

     Paul's arrival in Hollywood coincided with an increase in public awareness that all wasn't perfect in screenland. In Hollywood, most early-1920s problems were drug-related.

2. Cyberspace, as accessed through a computer screen.
   • 2000, Maureen Patricia Carroll, Whitecaps on the Keyboard (page 20)

     At times, different symbolic modes were intertwined. Labbo used the metaphor of "screenland" to describe the context of the children's actions with the computer. She identified three different stances: playing in screenland, art in screenland, and writing in screenland.

同意語

• (film industry): filmland, movieland