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
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
His publisher grandfather hated the WPA even more than he hated “Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles’ pitiless fictionalization, but Will Hearst is different.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2020
Such a telling would probably trigger the supposed guardians of historical accuracy to an even greater extent than Morgan’s fictionalizations already do.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
Léonard’s specialty is “autofiction,” thinly veiled fictionalizations of his life.
From The New Yorker ● May 3, 2019
Are there any fictionalizations of India, particularly its Mughal history, that you looked at?
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2013
Washington: Behind Closed Doors, for all its fictionalizations, presented a symbolically credible portrait of moral chaos in Nixon's White House.
From Time Magazine Archive
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