Fictionalization
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| - | '''Fictionalization''' or [[dramatization]] is to treat as or make into '''fiction'''. A clue for noticing a fictionalization is the phrase "'''based on a true story'''." | + | '''Fictionalization''' or [[dramatization]] is to treat as or make into [[fiction]]. A clue for noticing a fictionalization is the phrase "'''based on a true story'''." |
| To fictionalize is to [[retell]] something [[real]] as if it were [[fiction]], especially by [[fabricate|fabricating]] [[falsehood]]s or to convert ([[adaptation]]) something into a [[novel]] or other dramatic work. | To fictionalize is to [[retell]] something [[real]] as if it were [[fiction]], especially by [[fabricate|fabricating]] [[falsehood]]s or to convert ([[adaptation]]) something into a [[novel]] or other dramatic work. | ||
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Fictionalization or dramatization is to treat as or make into fiction. A clue for noticing a fictionalization is the phrase "based on a true story."
To fictionalize is to retell something real as if it were fiction, especially by fabricating falsehoods or to convert (adaptation) something into a novel or other dramatic work.
Poe said in 1840: "The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed."
Fictionalization should not be confused with appeals to truth in fiction, see false document. An early example of this is True History, a travel tale by Lucian of Samosata, the earliest known fiction about travelling to the Moon, written in the second century CE.
In films and literature
- Total Eclipse (1995), about Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), supposedly about Ed Gein, see false document.
- Heavenly Creatures (1994), based on a true story
- Schindler's List (1993), events of the Holocaust
- The Black Dahlia
- The Honeymoon Killers
- The Maids
See also
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