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In the context of film, television, and radio, drama describes a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone, focusing on in-depth development of realistic characters who must deal with realistic emotional struggles. A drama is commonly considered the opposite of a comedy, but may also be considered separate from other works of some broad genre, such as a fantasy. To distinguish ''drama'' as a genre of fiction from the use of the same word to mean the general storytelling mode of live performance, the word ''drama'' is often included as part of a phrase to specify its meaning. For instance, in the sense of a television genre, more common specific terms are a drama show, drama series, or television drama in the United States; dramatic programming in the United Kingdom; or teledrama in Sri Lanka. In the sense of a film genre, the common term is a drama film. Dramatic themes such as , child abuse, coming of age, drug addiction, emotion, hope, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, sexuality, poverty, class divisions, violence against women and corruption put characters in conflict with themselves, others, society, or even natural phenomena.〔("Drama Films". ''Filmsite.org'' )〕 Drama is one of the broadest movie genres and includes subgenres such as romantic drama, war films, sport films, period drama, courtroom drama and crime.〔 At the center of a drama is usually a character or characters who are in conflict at a crucial moment in their lives. They often revolve around families; movies like ''Ordinary People'' dig under the skin of everyday life to ask big questions and touch on the deepest emotions of normal people. Dramas often, but not always, have tragic or at least painful resolutions and concern the survival of some tragic crisis, like the death of a family member (''Terms of Endearment''), or a divorce (''Kramer vs Kramer''). ==Subgenres== Because of the large number of dramas, they are often subcategorized: * Crime drama and Legal drama: Character development based on themes involving criminals, law enforcement and the legal system. * Historical drama (epic) (including War drama): Films that focus on dramatic events in history. * Horror drama – A film that focuses on imperiled characters dealing with realistic emotional struggles, often involving dysfunctional family relations, in a horror setting. The film's horror elements often serve as a backdrop to an unraveling dramatic plot. * Docudrama: the difference between a docudrama and a documentary is that in a documentary it uses real people to describe history or current events; in a docudrama it uses professionally trained actors to play the roles in the current event, that is "dramatized" a bit. Not to be confused with docufiction. * Psychodrama: * Comedy-drama: is in which there is an equal, or nearly equal balance of humour and serious content. * Melodrama: a sub-type of drama films that uses plots that appeal to the heightened emotions of the audience. Melodramatic plots often deal with "crises of human emotion, failed romance or friendship, strained familial situations, tragedy, illness, neuroses, or emotional and physical hardship." Film critics sometimes use the term "pejoratively to connote an unrealistic, pathos-filled, campy tale of romance or domestic situations with stereotypical characters (often including a central female character) that would directly appeal to feminine audiences."〔(Melodrama Films )〕 Also called "women's movies", "weepies", tearjerkers, or "chick flicks". If they are targeted to a male audience, then they are called "guy cry" films. * Romantic drama: a sub-type of dramatic film which dwells on the elements of romantic love. * Tragedy: a drama in which a character's downfall is caused by a flaw in their character or by a major error in judgment. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Drama (genre)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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