Content analysis. Content analysis is a research method for studying documents and communication artifacts, which might be texts of various formats, pictures, audio or video. Social scientists use content analysis to examine patterns in communication in a replicable and systematic manner.
As used as well, they use it to analyzed the arguments. Just like Social scientists can.
The experience will vary depending on the exact dramatization you read, but in general, a dramatization will be shorter and will eliminate many of the details in the interest of condensing the story for the sake of time.