melodramanoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈmel.əˌdrɑː.mə/us/ˈmel.əˌdræm.ə/a story, play, or film in which the characters show stronger emotions than real people usually do:
a television melodrama
mainly UK The car's hardly damaged - there's no need to make a melodrama out of it (= make the situation more important than it is).
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Types of film, play, book etc.
- adaptation
- anime
- blockbuster
- epic
- epigram
- epistle
- film noir
- hagiography
- hokum
- indie
- lampoon
- mystery
- pap
- pastiche
- pastoral
- prose
- saga
- satire
- slow
- the big screen 1
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