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docufiction

docufiction noun: a cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction.

Noun

docufiction (countable and uncountable, plural docufictions)

  1. A cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction.
    • The Novel as Document: The "Docufiction" of Norman Mailer, Jay Cantor, and Jack Kerouac
      WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY that a novel-a work of fiction is based on the life of a real person, on events that really happened in the world […]1988, Welch D. Everman, Who Says This?: The Authority of the Author, the Discourse, and the Reader, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 3
    • Although not a new phenomenon as such, the genre of the docufiction film has grown spectacularly since the global and digital turns in the 1990s. Retrospectively attributed to the practices of such diverse filmmakers as Robert Flaherty, Jean Rouch, or Abbas Kiarostami, the genre, as the name...2019, Jeroen Gerrits, chapter 4, in Cinematic Skepticism: Across Digital and Global Turns, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 73

Forms of docufiction

pluraldocufictions
alternative formdocu-fiction

Origin of docufiction

Blend of documentary + fiction.

Questions about docufiction

What does docufiction mean?
Docufiction means a cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction.
What part of speech is docufiction?
Docufiction is a noun.
What is the plural of docufiction?
The plural of docufiction is docufictions.

Words near docufiction in the dictionary

  1. docudramatized
  2. docudramatizes
  3. docudramatizing
  4. docufantasies
  5. docufantasy
  6. docufiction
  7. docufictional
  8. docufictions
  9. docufilm
  10. docufilms
  11. doculect

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