Fictionalization
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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Fictionalization 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 1850: "The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed."
In films and literature
In film and literature fictionalized usually means: based on a true story. Related terms are dramatization.
Examples
- 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