Fiction films
URI(s)
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Form
- Fiction films
Variants
- Dramatic films
- Dramatic-narrative films
- Entertainment films
- Fictional films
- Fictive films
- Film dramas
- Narrative films
Use For
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Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
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- Alternative histories (Motion pictures)
- Crime films
- Documentary-style films
- Domestic drama (Motion pictures)
- Epic films
- Fantasy films
- Films à clef
- Haunted house films
- Horror films
- Journalism films
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Mood films
- Mumblecore films
- Political films
- Science fiction films
- Witch films
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Yee, M. Moving image materials, 1988(Fiction: use for films and programs portraying imaginary characters and events)
- found: Films by genre, c1993(fictional film; UF dramatic-narrative film, fiction film, fictive film; the fictional film -- film drama, film play, screen drama, screenplay, or story film as it has sometimes been called -- is a film in which actors perform in front of a camera to create fictitious situations or tell an invented story with the purpose of showing it to an audience; hence the terms entertainment film, theatrical film, and feature film have also been used with analogous meaning; fictional film or fiction film stands in opposition to factual or documentary film)
- found: Konigsberg, I. The complete film dictionary, 1997(narrative film. Any film that tells a story; also called a fiction film, a dramatic film, a theatrical film, and a feature film. Though a number of documentaries have a simple narrative line embedded within them and some seem to tell stories, the term "narrative film" applies to those works that emphasize the story line, are dramatic in nature, and are fictional.)
Change Notes
- 2011-05-05: new
- 2016-09-09: revised
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