Word: docudrama
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Special Bulletin (NBC). Gripping in a way that The Day After was not, this docudrama presented a fictional nuclear crisis as a news event actually in progress. The result was a dark parody of the pontifical way in which the networks package disaster...
...docudrama gives a glimpse of "crisis management...
According to The Day After, the world ends with a ghastly nuclear bang. But according to another fictional program broadcast on ABC last week, the world does not end at all, thanks to the sober deliberations of U.S. and Soviet leaders. The Crisis Game, a docudrama produced by ABC News' Nightline and broadcast for four nights running, was an extraordinary TV hybrid. Ten former high Government officials, acting the unscripted parts of a President and his National Security Council, coped with an imaginary U.S.-Soviet crisis set in 1985: Ayatullah Khomeini's death, Iranian civil...
...docudrama, on the other hand, no matter how well intentioned or how skillfully made, can avoid the taint of artifice, of things having been manipulated to make a point (or just a profit). Even in The Day After, much of the power came from the quasidocumentary idea that nuclear destruction had been visited upon the real town of Lawrence, Kans., rather than upon some back lot of Warner Bros. The best movie sets remain always movie sets, and in a reconstructed Auschwitz, a grimy-faced Vanessa Redgrave remains always Vanessa Redgrave. And as we have lately been watching with...
...founder of psychoanalysis, growling about "rich dirty Jews." They are cowed by Frau Freud's response: "We're middle-class clean Jews. That is why I ask you to wipe your feet." The master's cures are just as brisk and effective, the ideal length for docudrama. "You don't want to die," Freud assures a patient, "you want to get back into your mother." From the couch comes the reply, "You're sure?" The doctor is, and one visit later, so is his patient...