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Real life. Illustration by William Blake for Wollstonecraft's Original Stories (1791) Real life is a phrase used originally in literature to distinguish between the real world and fictional, virtual or idealized worlds, and in acting to distinguish between actors and the characters they portray.
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. [1] Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors.
A title card from the film Affairs of Cappy Ricks (1937) showing an all persons fictitious disclaimer. An " all persons fictitious " disclaimer in a work of media states that the persons portrayed in it are not based on real people. This is done mostly on realistic films and television programs to reduce the possibility of legal action for ...
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. [1] The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, [2] such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama ...
Docudrama. Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. [1] It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event". [2]
A Battle for Survival (Russian: Лётчик) (2021) – Russian WWII film based on the real story of pilot Aleksey Maresyev [187] Respect (2021) – biographical drama film based on the life of American singer Aretha Franklin [188] Saina (2021) – Indian biographical sports film based on the life of badminton player Saina Nehwal.
e. Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending. [1] Tragicomedy, as its name implies, invokes the intended response of ...
Slice of life is a depiction of mundane experiences in art and entertainment. In theater, slice of life refers to naturalism, while in literary parlance it is a narrative technique in which a seemingly arbitrary sequence of events in a character's life is presented, often lacking plot development, conflict and exposition, as well as often having an open ending.