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dramatics a. the art of acting or producing plays b. dramatic productions How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Both the arrest and the famous trial that followed were more a piece of dramaturgy than a legal proceeding. Looking at each of Wilson's cycle plays that deal with the decades from 1900 to 2001, Elam elaborates Wilson's culturally and socially focused dramaturgy that illustrates both current social conditions and past oppression, and their impact on the very fabric of African American lives. As he says, "Unlike Abbas Kiarostami or Mike Leigh, directors who observe 'reality' in some fashion that aspires to an unmediated treatment of the real, I was and I am always aware of the construction of things, and I always make that part of the dramaturgy of my stories. |
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