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A docudrama (also '''docu-drama''', '''drama-documentary''', '''drama-doc''' or '''docu-fiction''') is a type of drama (usually a Film , Television show, or Play ) that combines elements of Documentary and Drama . It may consist entirely of Actor s performing recreations of documented events, or (in the case of film and television docudramas) may combine that with contemporaneous footage of the events themselves. INTENT Docudramas tend to demonstrate some or most of the following characteristics:
Docu-fiction, then, is distinct both from the main line of historical fiction, in which the historical setting is a mere backdrop for a plot that could be set in many periods, and from straight documentary or journalistic writing in its creation of a coherent narrative out of the materials of history. 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. 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. NOTABLE WORKS Film docudramas of note
TV series that utilize a docudrama style
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