Conspiracy Is A Docudrama But A Special Kind Of Docudrama
Conspiracy Is A ‘Docudrama' But Quite A Special Kind Of ‘Docudrama'
Terry Cornick
BA (Hons) Media Writing
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Conspiracy Is A ‘Docudrama' But Quite A Special Kind Of ‘Docudrama'
The film Conspiracy was released in 2001 as a HBO production and attempted to re-create the meeting that arguably decided the fate of the persecuted European Jewish population during World War Two. The film has been described as a docudrama, which Janet Staiger explains is:
‘A fact-based representation of real events. It may represent contemporary social issues – the "facts-torn-from-today's-headlines" approach – or it may deal with older historical events…'
(Staiger, n. d.)
However Staiger does make it clear that unlike mainstream drama, the docudrama ‘does make claims to provide a fairly accurate interpretation of real historical events.' (Staiger, n. d.) To begin to explore the idea that Conspiracy is a ‘special' docudrama, it must first be......
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