Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama.As such, it is also known by the portmanteau dramedy. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical hour-long legal or medical drama, but exhibit far fewer jokes-per-minute …

Controversy over the term. Historically, transracial has been used to describe parents who adopt a child of a different race. The use of the term to describe changing racial identity has been criticized by members of the transracial adoption community. Kevin H. Vollmers, executive director of an adoption non-profit, said the term is being "appropriated and co-opted" and that …

History. Like the concept of a state's national flag itself, that of an "ethnic flag" is modern, first arising in the late 19th century; strictly speaking, the national flags of nation states are themselves "ethnic flags", and often so used by ethnic minorities in neighbouring states, especially in the context of irredentism (e.g. the flag of the Republic of Albania used as an "ethnic Albanian ...

The Ostern (Eastern; Russian: И́стерн, Istern; or остерн) or Red Western was a film genre created in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc as a variation of the Western films that originated in the United States. The word "Ostern" is a portmanteau derived from the German word Ost, meaning "East", and the English word "western".The term now includes two related genres:

In the traditional animation process, animators will begin by drawing sequences of animation on sheets of transparent paper perforated to fit the peg bars in their desks, often using colored pencils, one picture or "frame" at a time. A peg bar is an animation tool used in traditional animation to keep the drawings in place. A key animator or lead animator will draw the key …

Slow cinema is a genre of art cinema filmmaking that emphasizes long takes and is typically characterised by a style that is minimalist, observational, and with little or no narrative. It is sometimes called "contemplative cinema". Examples include Ben Rivers' Two Years at Sea, Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte, and Shaun Wilson's 51 Paintings.

An origin myth is a myth that describes the origin of some feature of the natural or social world.One type of origin myth is the creation or cosmogonic myth, a story that describes the creation of the world. However, many cultures have stories set in a time after a first origin - such stories aim to account for the beginnings of natural phenomena or of human institutions within …

Ethnic nationalism, also known as ethnonationalism, is a form of nationalism wherein the nation and nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity, with emphasis on an ethnocentric (and in some cases an ethnocratic) approach to various political issues related to national affirmation of a particular ethnic group.. The central tenet of ethnic nationalists is that "nations are defined by a …

Cuban Rebel Girls or Assault of the Cuban Rebel Girls is a 1959 semi-dramatic documentary B movie, and the final on-screen performance of Errol Flynn.He stars with his underage girlfriend, Beverly Aadland. The script was written and narrated by Flynn, who was sympathetic to the Cuban revolution being led by Fidel Castro in its early phase.. In his memoir Flynn called it "an …

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