hokumnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈhəʊ.kəm/us/ˈhoʊ.kəm/mainly US informala film, play, or television programme that does not show life as it really is:
As a whole the series was never less than watchable - hokum, perhaps, but entertaining.
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Types of film, play, book etc.
- adaptation
- anime
- blockbuster
- cyberpunk
- epic
- epigram
- epistle
- film noir
- hagiography
- indie
- lampoon
- mystery
- pap
- pastiche
- pastoral
- prose
- saga
- satire
- slow
- the big screen 1
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