Drama (film genre)
A drama , sometimes also a film or television drama , is an unspecific genre designation in the film and television sector .
Definitions
According to the ancient definition, drama is a genre of poetry and describes an action with distributed roles.
Other definitions of film drama in German are more limited. The German Foreign Dictionary (1999) quotes a sentence from the publication Die deutsche Filmindustrie by Karl Zimmigart from 1922: “The art of film soon thought about exploiting the sentimentality that is so inherent in German beings in an economical way. The film drama owes its creation to this consideration. "
For the Lexicon of Film Terms of the University of Kiel , the term drama is used in film criticism “as a collective term for films that are somewhere between melodrama and social drama . The film's most unspecific genre designation therefore includes, among other subgenres, romantic drama, period film , numerous historical melodramas, many court films , some adventure dramas and the like. At the center of the drama are characters who go through a life crisis, who are faced with a life-changing decision, who have to reform their lives due to loss, persecution, accidental luck or the like. "
literature
- Helmut Schanze (Ed.): Handbook of Media History (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 360). Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-36001-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Schulz et al. (Hrsg.): German foreign dictionary. Vol. 4, de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-016235-0 , p. 885.
- ↑ drama. (Definition) in the dictionary of film terms at the University of Kiel, accessed on April 11, 2012.
Remarks
- ^ "Period film" = German for example " historical film ", a film set in a certain historical era.