docudrama
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- noun
- /ˈdɑkjʊˌdrɑːmə/
- Literature
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docudrama
- Cohen includes unpublished court records, romantic biographies, and fictionalized docudramas, underscoring our own modern mass media's obsession with crime and punishment.
Examples
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The Cades weren't stellar personalities, the kind people made docudramas out of.
Fiction book (1992) -
Occasionally, the players in these docudramas appear under their own names.
Academic text (1995) -
Now that was a perfect example of heroic action, as the 1982 docudrama made clear.
Fiction book (1991) -
- Then I figured it was a very interesting premise that we could do a good docudrama on, as well.
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Researchers usually initiated discussions by using the first 30 minutes of the focus group to screen a film, typically a documentary or docudrama.
Academic text (2013) -
Escape from Teheran was a dumb TV docudrama, only worth remembering because of De Niro's performance as Colonel Jackson.
Fiction book (1991) -
The docudrama presented the life of a famous scientist through both interviews and reenactments.
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Last night's docudrama explored the events leading up to the devastating earthquake.
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She watched a gripping docudrama that featured major historical figures from the civil rights movement.
Synonyms
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A story changed into a play, film or TV program
Antonyms
How Factual
Surface Forms
Morphology
docudrama = documentary (semi-transparent) = docu + drama
The components 'docu' and 'drama' are clear, but the specific meaning of blending factual and dramatized elements is not immediately obvious.
Etymology
Docudrama is a mix of documentary and drama, with documentary meaning a 'record' of real events and drama meaning an 'acted story'. So a docudrama shows true events like a record but uses actors and dramatic scenes, which is why it feels both real and like a play.