docu-drama
docu-drama is the alternative form of docudrama.
Meaning of docudrama
Noun
docudrama (countable and uncountable, plural docudramas)
- A type of drama (a film, play, television show, etc.) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing recreations of documented events.
- What he saw was a school system in defeat, in panic. When a man must fight he reaches for such weapons as he has and understands. Early last summer, Phil[lip C.] Lewis stripped the cover off his typewriter, squared a sheet of paper on the platen, and invented DocuDrama. It's a dramatization of the...1957 September 28, William A[nthony] Caldwell, “The best investment society can make …”, in Bergen Evening Record, volume 63, number 98, Hackensack, N.J.: The Bergen Evening Record Corp., →OCLC...
- Synonyms:
- drama documentary, dramamentary
Forms of docu-drama
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Questions about docu-drama
- What is docu-drama the alternative form of?
- Docu-drama is the alternative form of docudrama.
Words near docu-drama in the dictionary
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