| LC control no. | gf2011026091 |
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| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Biographical television programs |
| Variant(s) | Bio-pics, Television Biographies, Television Biopics, Television Portraits (Biographical television programs) Profiles (Biographical television programs) Television bio-pics Television biographies Television biopics |
| See also | Television programs |
| Scope note | Fiction or nonfiction television programs that depict the lives of real people. For fictional television programs in which real persons, places, or events are depicted under invented names see Drames à clef (Television programs). |
| Subject example tracing | Note under Drames à clef (Television programs). |
| Found in | Moving image genre-form guide online, June 21, 2007 (Biographical (Nonfiction): nonfiction work documenting the life and career (or portion thereof) of an individual or small group of related persons such as a family; Biographical: fictional work dramatizing the life (or portion thereof) of an actual historical figure (often including their family and/or associates), and told with varying degrees of accuracy) Yee, M.M. Moving image materials, 1988 (Biographies: use for a film or program which gives an account of the life and/or work of an actual person who exists or existed historically (i.e., not the life of a fictional character)) The American Heritage dictionary of the English language, ©2000, via TheFreeDictionary.com, Mar. 16, 2012 (biopic: A film or television biography, often with fictionalized episodes) Dictionary.com, Mar. 16, 2012 (biopic: a biographical movie or TV show) Google search, Mar. 16, 2012 (television biopic; made for-television biopic; made-for-British television biopic; television bio-pic; made-for-television bio-pic; cable television bio-pic; television bio-pic mini-series; television bio pic; the genre of the television bio-pic) |
| Invalid LCCN | sh2007004503 |
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