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• Rerun
  ...Shows will tend to start rerunning episodes after the November [[sweeps]] period and usually show only reruns from mid-December until mid-January or even Fe In the United Kingdom, most drama and comedy series run for shorter seasons – typically six, seven or thirt
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• Genre
  ...they are defined by the general [[cultural movement]] of the [[historical period]] in which they were composed. In [[popular fiction]], which is especially ...f lyric poetry into the classical system during the [[Romanticism|romantic period]], replacing the now removed pure narrative mode. Lyric poetry, once consid
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• Comedy
  ...]], [[Avicenna]], and [[Averroes]]. They disassociated comedy from [[Greek drama]]tic representation and instead identified it with [[Arabic poetry|Arabic p === In ancient Sanskrit drama ===
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• Telenovela
  ...|ˌtɛlenoˈvɛla|br}}) is a type of limited-run serial [[dramatic programming|drama]] originally produced in [[Latin America]] that has become popular in Europ ...hour, except for [[series finale|final episodes]]. The telenovela combines drama with the 19th-century ''[[feuilleton]]'', and naturally evolved from the La
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• Television show
  ...ogramming|local]] [[newscast]] and some [[made-for-television]] films), or historical (as in the case of many documentaries and fictional series). They could be ...es]]'' and ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'' were two of the first American prime time drama television series to have this kind of dramatic structure,<ref>{{cite web |
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• Television production
  ...ogramming|local]] [[newscast]] and some [[made-for-television]] films), or historical (as in the case of many documentaries and fictional series). They could be ...et Blues]]'' and ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'' were two of the first US prime time drama television series to have this kind of dramatic structure,<ref>{{cite web |
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• Literature
  ...= Fragment of Tablet II of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Old-Babylonian period, from southern Iraq. Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan.jpg ...ally considered to be an [[art]] form, especially [[prose]] [[fiction]], [[drama]], and [[poetry]].<ref name="OD">{{cite web |url=https://www.oxfordlearners
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• Lillian Gish
  ...e Camera Catch Me Acting’: Lillian Gish as Actress, Star, and Theorist,” ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television'' 36 (June 2016), 175–89.</ref> ...but is now recognized as one of the most distinguished works of the silent period. Though not a box-office hit as before, her work was respected artistically
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• Theatre
  Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from [[ancient Greek drama]], from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, ...of the [[Athenian democracy]]), and all the surviving plays date from this period" (1998, 441). "The dominant culture of [[Classical Athens|Athens in the fif
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• Popular culture
  ...|date=August 2012}} a usage that became established by the [[interbellum]] period.<ref> ...or Bristol, for example) locate much of the characteristic vitality of his drama in its participation in [[Renaissance]] popular culture, while contemporary
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• Tina Louise
  ...er on stage during mid-1950s, before landing her breakthrough role in 1958 drama film ''[[God's Little Acre (film)|God's Little Acre]]'' for which she recei ...edly added during her senior year in high school when she mentioned to her drama teacher that she was the only girl in the class without a middle name. He s
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• 1988–1994 British broadcasting voice restrictions
  ...organisations based in [[Northern Ireland]]. The ban followed a heightened period of violence in the course of [[the Troubles]] (1960s to 1990s), and reflect ...ing up to the introduction of the ban had also seen a particularly intense period of Troubles-related violence.<ref name=Independent2-1994-09-17/> One of the
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• Claudette Colbert
  ...manner, and flair<ref name="tcmdb"/> for light comedy as well as emotional drama, Colbert was known for a versatility that led to her becoming one of the be ...lbert played ingenue roles on Broadway from 1925 through 1929. During this period she disliked being typecast as a French maid.<ref name=richardson>{{cite we
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• American International Pictures
  ...ure production label of [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]. In its original operating period, AIP was an independent [[film production]] and [[Film distributor|distribu ...to use [[focus group]]s,<ref>{{cite book|last=Booker|first=M. Keith|title=Historical dictionary of American cinema|year=2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=
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• Renaissance
  ...spread to the rest of Europe, marking the beginning of the [[early modern period|Early Modern Age]]. ...nce men", questioning the usefulness of ''Renaissance'' as a term and as a historical delineation.<ref name = "brotton"/> The [[Art history|art historian]] [[Erw
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• Musical film
  ...be mainly coming from the [[Walt Disney|Disney]] [[animated film]]s of the period, from composers and lyricists, [[Howard Ashman]], [[Alan Menken]], and [[St ...musicals, musical biopics, musical remakes, epic drama musicals and comedy drama musicals such as ''[[Moulin Rouge!]]'' (2001), ''[[Chicago (2002 film)|Chic
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• Silent film
  ...ntial part of the viewing experience. "Silent film" is typically used as a historical term to describe an era of cinema prior to the invention of synchronized so ...ssionism]], [[German Expressionism]], and [[Soviet Montage]] began in this period. Silent filmmakers pioneered the art form to the extent that virtually ever
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• List of United States over-the-air television networks
  | align="center" | Suspense/drama/women's interest | align="center" | Classic TV & films/Historical documentaries
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• Gone with the Wind (film)
  ...with the Wind''''' is a 1939 American [[Epic film|epic]] [[Historical film|historical]] [[romance film]] adapted from [[Margaret Mitchell]]'s 1936 novel ''[[Gone ''Gone with the Wind'' has been criticized as historical revisionism glorifying slavery, but nevertheless, it has been credited for
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• Arthur Conan Doyle
  * historical novels ...tasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.
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