microdrama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdramas
Etymology: From micro- + drama.
Senses: examples: text: ...he also attempts to show how editing causes audience "identification" with the image and allows for the subtler "microdrama" of realism; and leaving editing aside, he sees the expressive possibilities in the "panorama" or long-take, shots — all of which goes well beyond the "make-it-strange" aesthetics of the Russians.
ref: 1997, James John Griffith, Adaptations as Imitations: Films from Novels, page 19:
text: What becomes visible at close range is the rapid to-and-fro motion that occurs within a single situation, the microdrama of the moment. The closeup enables the action, the story to develop a deeper dimension.
ref: 2010, Béla Balázs, Erica Carter, Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory: Visible Man and The Spirit of Film, →ISBN:
text: Hypotheses H1: Audience viewing of the microdrama [up-close camera perspective] format will induce higher levels of identification with the candidate than the televised town meeting or political spot formats.
ref: 2014, Erik P. Bucy, R. Lance Holbert, Sourcebook for Political Communication Research, page 1317709349:
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A filming style characterized by close-up camera work focusing on the reactions of a single character.
examples: text: But, by far the most important of these genres is ritual microdrama. Deftly interweaving plot, narration, and theme, microdramas create a special kind of fiction which often literally depicts the transformations which the other three only imply.
ref: 1980, Ray Broadus Browne, Rituals and Ceremonies in Popular Culture, →ISBN, page 333:
text: In this microdrama, the blond heroine calls to mind several different heroic or mythic figures from our collective consciousness.
ref: 2004, Arthur Asa Berger, Ads, fads, and consumer culture, page 151:
text: The central question, then, becomes what kind of relationship can arise between the actors in this microdrama, in this pièce for two characters, which is so typical of the genre under discussion?
ref: 2007, Francesca Billiani, Gigliola Sulis, The Italian Gothic and Fantastic, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: A very short film clip or acted scene.
examples: text: Gay Charles spectated the microdrama with a sagacious and equivocal eye. He'd seen it all. Well, he hadn't seen Not Mrs Crackety's headscarf blow off, but he could quite well imagine what it might look like.
ref: 2006, Louis Greenberg, The Beggars' Signwriters, page 120:
text: This microdrama reveals the remarkable emotional sophistication that a toddler of just thirty months can bring to bear in trying to manage someone else's emotions.
ref: 2009, Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, →ISBN, page 112:
text: Scholars have long portrayed the historical Owens Valley-Los Angeles conflict as a polarized regional microdrama that is isolated in the past, without looking at the colonial context or the continuation of the conflict today.
ref: 2015, Karen Piper, Left in the Dust: How Race and Politics Created a Human and Environmental Tragedy in L.A., →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: A dramatic interaction or event of very short duration.