fictionalization
Americannoun
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something created through fictionalizing.
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the act or process of fictionalizing.
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For his 1970 novel, “Bomber,” a fictionalization of a Royal Air Force raid over Germany in 1943, he spoke to survivors and listened to wartime tape recordings to get the dialogue right.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
The scouting team for a Shinkai film will photograph real places, and those become the basis for these representations that are the most gorgeous fictionalization of that place possible.
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2023
Marlon James’ “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” is a thrilling, ambitious fictionalization of the assassination attempt on Bob Marley in 1976 and the afterlives of Marley’s would-be assassins.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2023
One morning in August, Cameron Crowe — who made the coming-of-age movie, a gentle fictionalization of his days writing for Rolling Stone in the early 1970s — was back at that ramp.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022
With “Memoirs and Misinformation,” Carrey the author got ahead of the curve and wrote his own fictionalization.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2020
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