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  2. Dramatism - Wikipedia

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    Dramatism, a communication studies theory, was developed by Kenneth Burke as a tool for analyzing human relationships through the use of language. Burke viewed dramatism from the lens of logology , which studies how people's ways of speaking shape their attitudes towards the world. [ 1 ]

  3. Dramatic theory - Wikipedia

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    Depending on the author, opera or acting was coined the real drama. From the 19th century on, movies were included in dramatic theory as a contemporary alternative to live acting (see Film theory). In the dramatic theory of the last decades, it was popular to see theater as more than just drama (see Performative utterance, Postdramatic theatre).

  4. Dramatistic pentad - Wikipedia

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    The dramatistic pentad forms the core structure of dramatism, a method for examining motivations that the renowned literary critic Kenneth Burke developed. Dramatism recommends the use of a metalinguistic approach to stories about human action that investigates the roles and uses of five rhetorical elements common to all narratives, each of which is related to a question.

  5. Terministic screen - Wikipedia

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    Burke describes two different types of terministic screens: scientistic and dramatistic. Scientistic begins with a definition of a term; it describes the term as what it is or what it is not, putting the term in black and white. When defining, the essential function is either attitudinal or hortatory.

  6. Dramatization - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from a 1909 dramatization of Master Skylark.. A dramatization is the creation of a dramatic performance of material depicting real or fictional events. . Dramatization may occur in any media, and can play a role in education and the psychological development

  7. Drama (film and television) - Wikipedia

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    Gone with the Wind is a popular romance drama.. In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. [1]

  8. Linguistic film theory - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic film theory was proposed by Stanley Cavell [1] and it is based on the philosophical tradition begun by late Ludwig Wittgenstein.The theory itself is said to mirror aspects of the activity of Wittgenstein's own philosophising (e.g. Wittgenstein's thought experiments) as films are viewed capable of engaging the audience in a therapeutic process of 'dialogue' and even investigate the ...

  9. Drama - Wikipedia

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    Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. [1] Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.