docufiction

English

Alternative forms

• docu-fiction

Etymology

Blend of documentary +‎ fiction.

Noun

docufiction (countable and uncountable, plural docufictions)

1. (film) A cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction.

   Coordinate term: docudrama

   • 1988, Welch D. Everman, Who Says This?: The Authority of the Author, the Discourse, and the Reader, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 3:

     The Novel as Document: The "Docufiction" of Norman Mailer, Jay Cantor, and Jack Kerouac
     WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY that a novel-a work of fiction is based on the life of a real person, on events that really happened in the world […]

   • 2019, Jeroen Gerrits, chapter 4, in Cinematic Skepticism: Across Digital and Global Turns, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 73:

     Although not a new phenomenon as such, the genre of the docufiction film has grown spectacularly since the global and digital turns in the 1990s. Retrospectively attributed to the practices of such diverse filmmakers as Robert Flaherty, Jean Rouch, or Abbas Kiarostami, the genre, as the name suggests, applies to hybrid films that cross the traditional division of films between fiction and documentary. […] The docufiction genre generally, and Werner Herzog's recent films in particular, form crystals of a special kind.

Related terms

• docufictional

Translations

combination of documentary and fiction

• French: docufiction (fr) f
• German: Dokufiktion f
• Spanish: docuficción f

See also

• faction

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

docufiction f (plural docufictions)

1. docudrama (drama that combines elements of documentary and drama)