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Docudramas tend to demonstrate some or most of the following characteristics: - A strict focus on the facts of the event being treated, as they are known;
- A tendency to avoid overt commentary or authorial editorializing;
- The use of literary and narrative techniques to flesh out or render story-like the bare facts of an event in history;
- A tendency to avoid overt assertion of the creator's own point of view or beliefs.
History The impulse to incorporate historical material into literary texts has been an intermittent feature of literature in the west since its earliest days. Aristotle's theory of art is based on the use of putatively historical events and characters. Especially after the development of modern mass-produced literature, there have been genres that relied on history or then-current events for material. English Renaissance drama, for example, developed sub-genres specifically devoted to dramatizing recent murders and notorious cases of witchcraft. For other uses, see Aristotle (disambiguation). ...
This article is about the European Renaissance of the 14th-17th centuries. ...
However, docu-fiction as a separate category belongs to the second half of the twentieth century. The influence of New Journalism tended to create a license for authors to treat with literary techniques material that might in an earlier age have been approached in a purely journalistic way. Both Truman Capote and Norman Mailer were influenced by this movement, and Capote's In Cold Blood is arguably the most famous example of the genre. New Journalism was the name given to a style of 1960s and 1970s news writing and journalism which used literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time. ...
Truman Capote (pronounced ) (30 September 1924 – 25 August 1984) was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffanys (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a non-fiction novel. ...
Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. ...
In Cold Blood is a 1965 book by American author Truman Capote. ...
Notable works
Film docudramas of note Ala-Arriba! is a 1942 romantic docudrama set in Póvoa de Varzim, a traditional Portuguese fishing town. ...
A Night to Remember is the 1958 adaptation of Walter Lords book by the same name. ...
Culloden is a 1964 television film written and directed by Peter Watkins and originally broadcast by the BBC. It portrays the Jacobite uprising of 1745 and the Battle of Culloden. ...
The War Game is a 1965 television film on nuclear war. ...
For the Melvinss album, see Tora Tora Tora (album) Tora! Tora! Tora! is a 1970 American-Japanese film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the series of American blunders that unintentionally improved its effectiveness. ...
Threads is a 1984 BBC television docudrama depicting the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom and its aftermath. ...
Carol White as Cathy at the beginning of the play. ...
A drama documentary is a relatively new form of drama. ...
For the town in Vietnam, see Dien Bien Phu. ...
The Memorial at Hillsborough. ...
Bloody Sunday is a television drama, produced by Granada Television and screened on ITV on January 20 2002. ...
The Laramie Project is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Moisés Kaufman. ...
The Last Dragon, known as Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real in the United States, is a docudrama made by Animal Planet that is described as the story of the natural history of the most extraordinary creature that never existed. It posits the theoretical evolution of dragons from the Cretaceous period...
Touching the Void is a book by Joe Simpson recounting the true story of Simpsons and Simon Yates disastrous and near fatal attempt to climb the 6,344 metre (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. ...
Imagine waking up to the last day on Earth. ...
Good Night, and Good Luck. ...
Supervolcano is a 2005 Discovery Channel docudrama centered around the fictional eruption of the volcanic caldera of Yellowstone National Park. ...
A drama documentary is a relatively new form of drama. ...
This article concerns a televised production about the U.S. military facility on the island of Cuba. ...
Bobby is a Golden Globe Award-nominated drama film written and directed by Emilio Estevez. ...
United 93 (formerly named Flight 93) is a 2006 Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning docudrama written and directed by Paul Greengrass that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11, 2001 attacks. ...
The Lost Tomb of Jesus is a documentary co-produced and first broadcast on the Discovery Channel and Vision TV in Canada on March 4, 2007 covering the discovery of the Talpiot Tomb. ...
The Day Britain Stopped is a 2003 BBC drama documentary based around a fictional disaster - in which a train crash is the first in a chain of events that lead to a meltdown of the countrys transport system. ...
Death of a Princess is a 1979 docudrama about a young Saudi princess and her lover who had been publicly executed for adultery, based on the true story of Princess Mishaal. ...
TV series For the professional wrestling tag team, see Americas Most Wanted (professional wrestling). ...
E! True Hollywood Story is a TV documentary series on the E! Entertainment Television cable and DBS channel that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and well-known public figures. ...
Space Race is a BBC docu-drama series first shown in Britain on BBC2 between September/October 2005, chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race. ...
Filmed in 2002 a television docudrama filmed in Hawaii, Australia and the UK. Extensive CGI was used for this low budget programme. ...
A Haunting is a television series on Discovery Channel that, according to its website[1] chronicles the terrifying true stories of the paranormal told by people who experienced real-life horror tales. ...
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Unsolved Mysteries is an American television program that was hosted and narrated by Robert Stack. ...
External links - British Film Institute paper on British drama-documentary
Sources - Hellmann, John (1981). Fables of Fact: The New Journalism as New Fiction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
- Kazin, Alfred (1973). Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press.
- Lukacs, Georg (1983). The Historical Novel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
- Siegle, Robert (1984). "Capote's Hand-Carved Coffins and the Nonfiction Novel." Contemporary Literature 25 (1984): 437-451.
- Stavreva, Kirilka (2000). "Fighting Words: Witch-speak in Late Elizabethan Docu-fiction." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30 (2000): 309-338.
- White, Hayden (1985). Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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