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Prizes and Awards
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...historical films, ranging from World War I dramas to Gone with the Wind (1939). In the next decade eight contemporary social dramas, including The Lost Weekend (1945...Music (1965); and seven historical dramas, including From Here to Eternity (1953...
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Theater
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Shakespeare and other, mostly British dramas, including School for Scandal by Richard...rituals of the Pueblo Indians. Pueblo dramas included the Deer Dance, Buffalo Dance...around treaties and other meetings. These dramas included gift giving, dances, and speeches...
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Dassin, Jules
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...realistic, hard-bitten, fast-paced crime dramas produced in America, before his blacklisting...Naked City is one of the first police dramas shot on location, on the streets of New...a forerunner of detailed jewelry heist dramas, highlighted by a thirty-five-minute...
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Franklin, Sidney
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...in his career with his brother, Chester M. Franklin, to the polished dramas and comedies he directed at MGM during the late 1920s and 1930s and the high-profile dramas he produced during the 1940s. Through the mid-1920s, he directed a wide...
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Television
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Individual sponsors produced "dramatic anthologies," original dramas aired live. Although many TV plays were uneven or pretentious...adventure series — first westerns, then detective dramas — many of which gained large followings. CBS and...
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miracle plays
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...miracle plays, mysteries , and moralities . The custom of teaching Bible stories by means of sacred dramas (often in church) is venerable. These dramas were known as miracle plays (or, simply, miracles ), another name, given by writers on the...
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Classicism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...b.c.e.) and Pindar (sixth century b.c.e.); the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, and Aristophanes (fifth...Greek drama, vastly amplifying the evidence from the few extant dramas. Longinus illuminated the style and purpose of art. Much of...
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Nava, Gregory
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...the difficulty of getting films—other than crime dramas and broad comedies—about particular ethnic or social...differs in certain conspicuous ways from those black-and-white dramas of post-War Italian life, notably in the gorgeous colors...
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Macpherson, Jeanie
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...or evil ways, and she demonstrated this in her early social dramas. Both Macpherson and De Mille celebrated the hero and the heroine...perseverance. Macpherson's strength was writing historical dramas. When she began her work for De Mille, she assisted the director...
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The Apartment
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...arrangement that benefits the person who holds social and/or economic power. The Apartment differs from the above-mentioned 1950s dramas in two important ways: 1) the film undercuts the abrasiveness of the earlier works by employing actors who are essentially...
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