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	Docudrama
		The docudrama should be distinguished from fictional dramas which make use of reality as historical context but do not claim that the primary plot line is representing events that have actually occurred.
		Examples of terror are docudramas of murders or attempted murders by family members or loved ones or of larger disasters such as the Chernobyl meltdown or plane crashes.
		Docudramas have treated incest, missing children, wife or child abuse, teenage suicide, alcoholism and drug addiction, adultery, AIDs-related deaths, eating disorders, and other "diseases-of-the week." The highly successful Brian's Song which won five Emmys and a Peabody is an excellent example of this subtype of docudrama.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/D/htmlD/docudrama/docudrama.htm (1479 words)

	Images - Quiz Show as Persuasive Docudrama - Steve Lipkin
		By definition, docudrama is intertextual; that is, in developing its story a docudrama is also "about" certain preceding texts.
		The key to any docudrama's retelling of history is its degree of closeness to the actual people, places, actions and events that offer story material.
		Docudrama warrants employ strategies based upon perceived proximities, so that docudrama, at its most powerful, convinces us that it is properly both logical and emotional to associate cinematic proximity with moral truth.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue01/features/quiz.htm (1850 words)

	May 4 Archive - 1987 Conference
		In terms of the historical authenticity of the docudrama, all of the reported scenes were perceived by the viewers to be both very realistic and true to life.
		One inaccuracy in this docudrama is the lack of a historical context.
		Docudramas are an art form, and you just have to work within the ground rules that are given.
	www.may4archive.org /conference.shtml (9874 words)

	Calls for Presentations, Papers, Publications: Docudrama (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In both "high" and "low concept" versions, the docudrama is a fabricated recreation of actual people and events.
		In docudramas the forms and devices of fictional narrative are used to render more vivid the conflict and drama of a "real" subject.
		Docudramas attempt to present factual material through the organizing aesthetics of fiction and narrative, and they often utilze forms of narrative patterning and visual composition that facilitate audience identification with the "characters"--even when these characters are well-known historical figures.
	www.unm.edu /~loboblog/mort/archives/005364.html (178 words)

	Supervolcano Docudrama on Yellowstone Volcano - Questions and Answers on Supervolcanoes, Volcanic Hazards.
		BBC and the Discovery Channel produced a new docudrama and documentary about Yellowstone.
		The docudrama Supervolcano dramatically explores the impact of a large caldera-forming eruption at Yellowstone.
		The scale of the portrayed eruption is similar to the eruption of the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff at Yellowstone 2.1 million years ago.
	volcanoes.usgs.gov /yvo/2005/docudrama.html (1012 words)

	May 4 Archive - Docudrama
		Evaluations of the historical accuracy of Kent State which is contingent upon decisions in the editing room, is, of course, the prerogative of others.
		Docudrama From Different Temporal Perspectives: Reactions to NBC’s ‘Kent State'” Journal of Broadcasting 24, no. 3 (Summer 1983): pp.
		This paper examines the reactions of the three groups of subjects to the NBC docudrama, “Kent State.” The subjects were faculty and staff members who were at the university during the time of the actual events and students currently enrolled at Kent State.
	may4archive.org /docudrama.shtml (290 words)

	Rosenthal, Alan: Why Docudrama?
		Rosenthal notes that docudrama wields more influence than the average documentary and that "reality-based stories taken from topical journalism are the most popular drama genre on U.S. and British television today." This three-part collection of diverse and provocative essays addresses the dominant questions and controversies the genre poses.
		Defining and examining the rationale of docudrama, the nine essayists in the first part discuss the history and development of docudrama on TV and in film; they also consider the place of truth in docudrama, the main critiques of the form, and the audience's susceptibilities and expectations.
		In investigating the actual filmmaking process, the eight essays in the second part focus on how "docudrama as a 'commodity' is created in the United States and England." Part essay, part case study, and part interview, this section also explores how Hollywood and the commercial networks as well as producers and writers work and think.
	www.siu.edu /~siupress/titles/f98_titles/rosenthal_why.htm (322 words)

	Chiropractic Centennial Foundation News
		Dr. Riekeman has put together a list of elements the docudrama should possess, and will be sending the list to the CCF's board of trustees and media project committee members for their review.
		The docudrama could be anything from historical to contemporary scientific to entertaining.
		Release of the docudrama is scheduled for January 1995.
	www.chiroweb.com /archives/11/17/01.html (281 words)

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		Primary among them is that the term docudrama is notoriously difficult to pin down to one and only one meaning and that any sense of docudrama shifts as the culture industries continually combine program genres and types in the quest for popular audiences.
		The result is that where the British docudramas typically reconstruct political and social matters as objects of investigation, in the States most docudramas are entertainment biographies or based on sensational scandals.
		For instance, docudrama is able to espouse controversial contemporary ideas in relatively safe historical formats, and retains the potential to make strong political and social statements about current affairs.
	www.natcom.org /pubs/ROC/one-two/rosteck.htm (1263 words)

	ABC to Alter Show on Pre-9/11 Run-Up
		ABC plans to make minor changes to its docudrama on the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in response to heated complaints from former Clinton administration officials that a number of scenes are fabricated, a network executive said yesterday.
		Thomas H. Kean, the Republican who chaired the 9/11 commission and is a co-executive producer of the film, said in an interview that he recently asked for changes that would address complaints raised by the former aides to President Bill Clinton and that ABC is considering his request.
		The six-hour docudrama, scheduled for broadcast Sunday and Monday, depicts such former Clinton officials as Madeleine K. Albright, Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger and Richard Clarke as undermining efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701454.html (706 words)

	Docudrama (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There's a rather fine hair being split between Docudrama and the Documentary Play, with the second of these being far more faithful -- some would say slavishly faithful -- to interview or trial transcripts.
		But even here, you're involved in an act of selection as a playwright, since you can't use everything that's been said from what may be hundreds or even thousands of pages of transcripts.
		Anna Deavere Smith's play is based on recorded interviews with participants and others impacted by an African American fatality caused by a Rabbi's car and the investigation that followed.
	www.pubinfo.vcu.edu /artweb/playwriting/docudrama.html (295 words)

	President Bush 'assassinated' in new TV docudrama\| News \| This is London
		His previous work includes two docudramas for the BBC; The Day Britain Stopped, a fictional documentary on two planes colliding above London and The Man Who Broke Britain about a city trader who causes a national recession.
		Death Of A President is not the only way More4 will be exploring the impact of the War on Terror, the channel announced at a launch yesterday.
		I find it unconscionable that any country would allow a film like this to be aired.
	www.thisislondon.co.uk /news/article-23365246-details/President+Bush+assassinated+in+new+TV+docudrama/article.do (1438 words)

	JS Online: 'Reagans' just a forgettable docudrama
		After all the hollering, "The Reagans" was just another mediocre docudrama, one among the countless blends of fact and fiction that air regularly on the networks and cable channels.
		That's a given in most docudramas, which are produced as entertainment - not as works of journalism or historical documents.
		There is one warm scene of the first couple laughing in bed that transcends the limitations of docudrama.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/tvradio/nov03/189274.asp (536 words)

	Down Under 'Dish' Revisits Moon Walk / Docudrama tells story behind image that almost wasn't
		Flawed human nature and the unpredictability of Mother Nature almost caused one of the biggest botches in history.
		The story is told in "The Dish," a wry docudrama about the Australian team responsible for the huge satellite dish that tracked the television signal from Apollo 11 on the moon and relayed it throughout the world to 600 million awestruck watchers.
		There, in the middle of a sheep farm in New South Wales, sat -- and still sits -- the enormous dish, 210 feet in diameter -- big enough to play cricket in.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/04/06/DD239259.DTL (591 words)

	CNN StudentNews
		Analyze a docudrama from a particular perspective and evaluate the docudrama as a credible historical representation.
		For example, if it is a political docudrama, one group could review the movie from the main subject's perspective, one group can represent an historian's perspective and another group can examine the movie from a minor character's perspective.
		As a class, analyze the similarities and differences among the reviews and evaluate the value of the docudrama(s) as a credible historical representation.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/fyi/news/11/10/learning.docudramas (620 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Docudrama is bone-chilling cliffhanger
		If "Touching the Void" had been made as a straightforward, narrative feature film, it probably would have come off as contrived and a bit ludicrous — even if it were completely faithful to the true story.
		So credit filmmaker Kevin Macdonald, who chose to tell it in the only way possible — as a "docudrama," which blends dramatic re-creations and interviews with the participants.
		That was done out of necessity — since, obviously, there was no footage of the real events — and it's surprisingly effective.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,590044397,00.html (479 words)

	YOU Docudrama
		The docudrama portrays what could happen to youth who drink or abuse drugs, and drive under the influence.
		The docudrama is designed to be as realistic as possible, so that it will have more holding power in the minds of youth.
		If you have further questions about the docudrama or the Youth Outreach Unit, please call P.J. Petrillo, Officer Colby Lalli, or Joe Mick at 816-228-0178.
	www.bluespringsgov.com /Administration/you_docudrama.htm (401 words)

	Results in
		In a sequence of surpassing ugliness, they threaten the three fls with a baseball bat, chase them through the streets by car and on foot, drive one of them to his death on a parkway - he's hit by a speeding car - then corner another, beating him mercilessly.
		And the utter mendacity of the movie presents a couple of striking paradigms - not only what's wrong with the docudrama as a quasi-journalistic art form, but the way criminal justice (at least in New York City) has been contorted by racial politics.
		Imagine, if you will, that you are a docudrama producer, making a movie about the making of this movie.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n1_v42/ai_8295015 (506 words)

	Playbill News: After the Deluge, a Docudrama: Chicago's Bailiwick Ponders Katrina Jan. 6-Feb. 19
		Bailiwick Repertory Theatre is launching a new docudrama that can truly be called "timely as today's headlines," as the old TV pitchmen used to say.
		The devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 natural disaster that devastated much of the American South's Gulf Coast, is still being discussed, debated — and its layers continue to be revealed — four months after the impact.
		The killer storm's human toll is explored in the world premiere docudrama, Katrina: State of Emergency, officially opening at Chicago's Bailiwick Jan. 8 (after previews from Jan. 6).
	www.playbill.com /news/article/97179.html (710 words)

	The New Paltz Oracle - Reagan Docudrama Gets Canned for Bias (Site not responding. Last check: )
		So major networks can increase their advertising rates for the next three months, CBS changed the mini-series from a love story to a political docudrama.
		The officially stated reason that the miniseries was pulled off of CBS and put onto its sister station Showtime, which has a lower viewership, was the fact that CBS did not realize how negative the show would be.
		According to Professor Robert Miller, who teaches Media and Society, CBS pulled the docudrama because of intense political pressure from its conservative Viacom owners.
	www.newpaltz.edu /oracle/article_print.cfm?id=1127 (480 words)

	Lou Gentile! Apr 29, 2005
		It was during the gap years that Yellowstone began heating up, trails closed, elk leaving, fish dying, tremors, yet the worse it got, the less the public heard about it.
		In the docudrama, Homeland Security is shown as a villain, refusing to allow a warning to be given to the public, and insisting the USGS lie to back their statements.
		The docudrama counters the line that Homeland Security is effective and looking out for the public's interest, as its primary concern was panic reduction.
	www.zetatalk.com /index/lou0429.htm (1596 words)

	CNN StudentNews
		The debates over three recent television docudramas illustrate that the line between fact and fiction often depends on the interpretation.
		• Activity: Analyze a docudrama from a particular perspective and evaluate the docudrama as a credible historical representation
		How can the perspective of a docudrama affect how the story is told or received?
	edition.cnn.com /2003/fyi/news/11/10/discussion.docudramas (301 words)

	morons.org - "Liberal" Media Banishes Reagan Docudrama
		Responding to demands from the far-right, CBS won't be showing a docudrama about the Reagans, clearly because of a "liberal" media bias...
		They had the gall to attempt to make it somewhat historically accurate, which of course meant stirring up a bunch of things the far-right wish would have just stayed settled to the bottom.
		I don't care whether this "docudrama" was historically accurate or not.
	web.morons.org /article.jsp?sectionid=2&id=4184 (1747 words)

	Documentary Drama (Docudrama) \| Producing Documentary Films \| Television and Education \| Questia.com Online Library
		Television Aesthetics: Perceptual, Cognitive, and Compositional Bases ("Documentaries and Docudramas" p.
		...The tenth chapter on docudramas is a transition from...its daily mixtures of drama, comedy, romance, and...quiz program, and news documentary or transposed and...
		A Cognitive Psychology of Mass Communication ("The Docudrama: Fact or Fiction?" p.
	www.questia.com /library/communication/media-studies/television/documentary-drama.jsp (517 words)

	Political DocuDrama - Spring 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Trying to focus...so many great things out there to draw from, it's easy to get overwhelmed with what I want this to be versus what it is right now.
		First draft needs to focus on plot, and I can add the color of the docudrama fashion after that.
		Tough to consider now, but should allow me to keep moving and not get stuck on thinking of when to have vox pop moments and when to show typical candidateness.
	www.etaoinshrdlu.net /docudrama (2252 words)

	NPR : Docudrama Travels 'Road to Guantanamo'
		Weekend Edition Sunday, March 26, 2006 · Treatment of detainees at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been the subject of news reports and international political debates.
		Now it's the subject of a provocative British docudrama.
		The Road to Guantanamo concentrates on the stories of three young British men who were held in the camp for two years.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5302003&ft=1&f=1045 (221 words)

	Docudrama
		take the form of a `docudrama and discussion' organized and presented by yourselves with some guidance from seminar leaders
		Dramatised excerpts from the novel acted out as `clips' that provide the basis of the studio discussion.
		In response to feedback from students who participated in the docudrama exercise in 99/00, we have incorporated it into the assessed element of the course.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/close/hr22/wiswebsite/docudram.htm (8220 words)

	Jonestown docudrama yields no easy answers :: WiccanWeb.ca :: A Canadian Pagan and Wiccan Community. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jonestown docudrama yields no easy answers :: WiccanWeb.ca :: A Canadian Pagan and Wiccan Community.
		In the opening scene, a white-gloved archivist delicately removes a choir robe from a storage box.
		Feel free to use our RSS news Feed (a link would be nice).
	www.wiccanweb.ca /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=9619 (425 words)

	Think Progress » Writer of ABC’s 9/11 ‘Docudrama’ Is Avowed Conservative Activist
		ABC will air a “docudrama” next weekend called “The Path to 9/11″ which blames President Clinton for the 9/11 attacks while praising President Bush.
		I don’t remember all the republicans being in a flack about terrorism, other than when Clinton bombed Iraq, and he was accused of “wagging the dog” over Lewinsky and Trent Lott stood on cable news and stated that he could support the troops without supporting the President.
		Apparently this “docudrama” is even more truthful than the events that actually happened in reality.
	www.thinkprogress.org /2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist (14887 words)

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