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 […]
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Docufiction
Synonyms for "docufiction"
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French
1 entries- docufiction noun (combination of documentary and fiction)
German
1 entries- Dokufiktion noun (combination of documentary and fiction)
Polish
1 entries- docufiction noun (combination of documentary and fiction)
Spanish
1 entries- docuficción noun (combination of documentary and fiction)
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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 suggests, applies to hybrid films that cross the traditional division of films between fiction and documentary. […] The docufiction genre generally, and Werner Herzog's recent films in particular, form crystals of a special kind.
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