slice of life

noun

Etymology

Calque of French tranche de vie.

Definitions

  1. A work in a genre (of theater, cinema, literature, manga, etc.) that presents day-to-day…

    A work in a genre (of theater, cinema, literature, manga, etc.) that presents day-to-day happenings with no clear central plot and takes place in a world that mirrors our own.

  2. An ordinary social occurrence or sequence of events.

    • […] in the culturally constituted world, but it needs advertising to link it to certain social representations, certain slices of life.

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