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Domestic drama (Motion pictures)


  • Fictional films that feature home and family life.
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    • found: Work cat.: To sleep with anger, 2017(summary: Domestic drama about the effect a visiting storyteller/trickster has on various members of a black Los Angeles family)
    • found: AllMovie website, Mar. 14, 2017(To Sleep with Anger (1990). Genre: Drama, Sub-Genre: Family Drama)
    • found: Rotten tomatoes website, Mar. 14, 2017(To Sleep with Anger (1990). The life of a middle-class black family in Los Angeles is disrupted by the arrival of an old friend from back South in this layered drama. Initially a charming reminder of their past, the visitor soon comes to seems increasingly sinister as the strained household heads towards an inevitable conflict. Rating: PG. Genre: Drama)
    • found: López, D. Films by genre, ©1993(under Melodrama: Domestic Melodramas (Family Melodramas, Small Town Melodramas): They deal with emotional situations involving several individuals, members of the same family, or groups of people interacting with other members of the same community. Examples: Kings Row (1941); In This Our Life (1942); Madame Bovary (1949); All I Desire (1953); Magnificent Obsession (1954); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956); Written on the Wind (1956); The Long Hot Summer (1958); Home from the Hill (1960); Splender in the Grass (1961))
    • found: An introduction to film studies, 2003, via Google books, viewed Mar. 14, 2017:p. 156 (Genre: Melodrama. Defining criteria: Subject matter. Differentiating criteria: Domestic drama and heterosexual romance) p. 347 (silent and sound film versions of the domestic dramas John Galsworthy)
    • found: Covert, C. Movie review: "Loving" turns history into intimate domestic drama, in Knoxville news sentinel, Nov. 24, 2016, viewed online Mar. 14, 2017(A century after the Civil War abolished slavery, laws enforcing racial segregation criminalized marriage, and sometimes also sex, between members of different races. Sixteen states had such bans until the 1967 Supreme Court decision on Loving v. Virginia declared those laws unconstitutional. Jeff Nichols turns that history into an intimate domestic drama in "Loving")
    • found: Kay, G. Disaster movies, ©2006, via Google books, viewed Mar. 14, 2017:p. 159 (Anybody who thought James Cameron's Titanic went overboard in the romance department needs to take a look at this 1953 version, which is interesting enough and very well shot and produced for its day, but it plays more like a domestic drama than a disaster movie)
    • found: Basinger, J. I do and I don't : a history of marriage in the movies, 2012, via Google books, viewed Mar. 14, 2017:p. 11 (The Battle of the Sexes is labeled a "domestic drama" in the American Film Institute catalog of movies from 1920 to 1930) pp. 141-142 (From This Day Forward ... keeps its drama small, tied directly to the marriage of an average couple. Identified in the American Film Institute's catalog as a "domestic drama")
    • found: Davies, S.P. Out at the movies : a history of gay cinema, 2008, via Google books, viewed Mar. 14, 2017(Making Love (1982). One of the first Hollywood movies to take a positive look at homosexuality, this domestic drama of a man's "coming out" presented a non-stereotypical view of same-sex desire)
    • found: Jacoby, A. A critical handbook of Japanese film directors, ©2008, via Google books, viewed Mar. 14, 2017:Introduction - Genre and art: Japanese film in the 1990s and beyond (Japanese domestic drama) IEKI Miyogi (Though he has never acquired a reputation abroad, Ieki was a distinguished exponent of domestic drama whose films deserve admiration for their intelligence and humanity.) NAGASAKI, Shun'ichi (he achieved a major critical success with A Tender Place, a domestic epic recounting the attempts of a woman to come to terms with the disappearance of her 5-year-old daughter)
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    • Fictional films that feature home and family life.
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    • 2017-03-14: new
    • 2019-05-14: revised
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