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
“Peggy,” a fictionalization of heiress and gallerist Peggy Guggenheim’s life, is Godfrey’s third and final book, which she wrote during the final decade of her life.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024
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
That’s when “The Staircase” suggests a dramatic gearshift to something else entirely: the rare fictionalization that underscores the many narrative decisions that went into piecing together its ostensibly more straightforward, fly-on-the-wall precursor.
From Washington Post • May 5, 2022
The highlights-only approach is a problem in most biographical musicals, exacerbated in “Funny Girl” by its unusually high quotient of fictionalization.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2022
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