1A play or film adapted from a novel or depicting a particular incident.
‘the film is a dramatization of a true story’
‘His latest film is a dramatization of events leading up to the assassination of a heroic reporter in 1996.’
‘Dramatizations of his novels were staged even before the final parts appeared, and the narratives he created now yield us films, television serials, and musicals.’
‘The following is a dramatization based on historical facts.’
‘I once tried unsuccessfully to read that novel; seeing its dramatization has inspired me never to try again.’
‘The problem with a dramatisation based on real events is that a degree of simplification in unavoidable.’
‘In early 1599, during which the dramatisation was performed, Richard's reign was a sensationally topical subject.’
‘Check out the background information on the true story behind the film, as it is always interesting to learn about the real people who inspire dramatizations.’
‘Her 1985 anthology series offered dramatizations from the lives of fictional American folk heroes including Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, and Paul Bunyan.’
‘This was something entirely missing in the placid ' millpond ' climax of the television dramatization.’
‘It struck me as a typical English, BBC dramatisation but I know little about the actual history.’
1.1mass nounThe process of adapting a novel or presenting a particular incident in a play or film.
‘he led an agitation for the reform of copyright law to prevent the dramatization of novels without the author's sanction’
‘The dramatization of real-life events has tended to become the purview of the makers of the made-for-television movie.’
‘Piero had no trouble grasping the difference between documentary reality and dramatization.’
‘The West Wing became a critical and fan favorite, and successfully walked that tricky tightrope between pontification and dramatization.’
‘Animated sequences, overlaid text and dramatisation are combined in an attempt to explore the subject thoroughly and disrupt the narrative sequence.’
‘The past is a storehouse for stories of love, loss, death and courage and many of these stories come complete with a structure that simply requires dramatization.’
‘I had no idea of what the story was till I came to grips with it in this process of dramatization.’
‘Troppmann is more given to dramatization than to action; indeed for him, the action in the Barcelona streets becomes a means for dramatization.’
‘If there is any material that refuses dramatization, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci is it.’
‘Are there any comparable instances of such instant dramatisation?’
‘The playwright allows a predetermined narrative structure to quash the complexities that make Yamashita's case worthy of dramatization.’
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