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Fiction films

LC control no.sh2007006500
Topical headingFiction films
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Variant(s)Dramatic-narrative films
Entertainment films
Fictional films
Fictive films
See alsoMotion pictures
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Found inYee, M. Moving image materials, 1988 (Fiction: use for films and programs portraying imaginary characters and events)
Films by genre, c1993 (fictional film; UF dramatic-narrative film, fiction film, fictive film; the fictional film -- film drama, film play, screen drama, screenplay, or story film as it has sometimes been called -- is a film in which actors perform in front of a camera to create fictitious situations or tell an invented story with the purpose of showing it to an audience; hence the terms entertainment film, theatrical film, and feature film have also been used with analogous meaning; fictional film or fiction film stands in opposition to factual or documentary film)