Her smoothly comic drama, aspirational settings and judicious deployment of star firepower, whether in isolation (Mel Gibson in What Women Want) or ensemble (The Holiday), give her a broad, generous appeal that travels well.
The score's overall tone is lyrical and flexibly tonal, open to the harmonic and coloristic byways that the drama's shifting settings and emotions demand.
Although Chaney and Browning are both irrevocably identified with horror movies, they in fact, separately or together, made relatively few films in that genre, and in the new batch, "The Blackbird" (1926) is a crime film, and "West of Zanzibar" (1928) and "Where East Is East" (1929) are both psychological dramas with exotic settings.
Realist drama also used stage settings that accurately reproduced ordinary surroundings.
With sex, action and opulent settings, spy drama The Night Manager has been a hit for the BBC: it cost around ��3m per episode, but each one has pulled in some eight million viewers.
The notion of private dramas unfolding in mundane settings seems directly cribbed from the theatrically staged work of Gregory Crewdson and Jeff Wall.
Talese borrowed the tools of fiction — "scene-setting, dialogue, drama, conflict" — and applied them to real people and events, with a virtuosity more often found in a short story than in a sports story.
There's little portraiture, not much drama, and only enough mood-setting context to let us know what America was up to while L.B.J. and Congress were contriving new ways to strengthen the social safety net and exhaust the national treasury.
Life afforded Kouchner a series of glamorous and romantic settings for the drama of resistance.
Yet it has always been considered deeply unfashionable when it comes to settings for TV drama, while cities like Liverpool have been consecrated by the likes of Alan Bleasdale.
