documentary — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Of, related to, or based on documents.

   Uso

   • not-comparable

   Sinonimi

   documentativedocumentational

2. Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject.

   Uso

   • not-comparable

   Sinonimi

   documentativedocumentational

3. Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.

   Uso

   • not-comparable
   • of a film

   Esempi

   a documentary film

   Altri esempi (1)

   Just as there is a tradition of history painting, so there is one of history photographs — which of course are not documentary. They're posed as the world was supposed to be.

Sostantivo

1. A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees.

   Altri esempi (1)

   If you watched Victoria Beckham’s lavishly produced Netflix documentary last October, you might have wondered why it didn’t even glance on the biggest elephant in Brand Beckham’s room[…]. But most big documentaries these days aren’t documentaries any more in the way previous practitioners of the craft might have understood the word. As her husband’s was before it, Victoria’s doc was a self-commissioned advertorial on which the subject also served as executive producer.

2. Such works collectively, as a genre.

   Uso

   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   Such sequences draw attention to the affective appeals that environmental documentary typically makes, precisely by absenting those appeals.

Aggettivo

1. relating to or consisting of or derived from documents

   Sinonimi

   documental

2. (of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event

Sostantivo

1. a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event

   Sinonimi

   docudramadocumentary filminfotainment

   Termini più generali

   moviefilmpicturemoving picturemoving-picture showmotion picturemotion-picture showpicture showpicflick