miniessay
nounEtymology From mini- + essay.
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A brief essay.
- On the same program, and much more interesting as filmmaking, are three highly original independent shorts by New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion, all of them made while she was attending the Australian Film and Television School: Peel (1981) and A Girl's Own Story (1984) are about family quarrels and transgressions; the remarkable Passionless Moments (1984), made with Gerard Lee, is a series of fictional miniessays that defy description.1988 August 19, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Cane Toads: An Unnatural History/Films by Jane Campion”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
- He called them miniessays to flatter the kids into writing them.2007, John L'Heureux, An Honorable Profession: A Novel, →ISBN: