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costume-drama (subgenre) should be described as fiction
As a subgenre, "costume-drama" is defined by IMDb as: "A drama set between the middle ages and the start of World War I." To clearly differentiate costume-drama from "costume-drama-history", I suggest changing the description to: "A fictional drama set between the middle ages and the start of World War I."
P.S. IMDb explicitly warns that "Use of actual persons in an otherwise fictional setting, or of historic events as a backdrop for a fictional story, would not qualify" for the history genre.
Peter_pbn
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2 years ago
I think the term costume drama (like period drama) is widely used independent of the degree to which the story is fictional, and it would not be helpful if IMDb defined it differently.
As such, costume-drama-history can be seen as a subdivision of costume-drama.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/costume%20drama
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199587261.001.0001/acref-9780199587261-e-0160
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/570755/index.html
I wonder where IMDb's specification "between the middle ages and the start of World War I" comes from.
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