In Too Bold for the Box Office, Cynthia J. Miller has assembled essays by scholars and filmmakers who examine the unique cinematic form of mockumentary. Individually, each of these essays looks at a given instance of mockumentary parody and subversion, examining the ways in which each calls into question our assumptions, pleasures, beliefs, and even our senses. Writing about national film, television, and new media traditions as diverse as their backgrounds, this volume's contributors explore and theorize the workings of mockumentaries, as well as the strategies and motivations of the writers and filmmakers who brought them into being.…mehr
In Too Bold for the Box Office, Cynthia J. Miller has assembled essays by scholars and filmmakers who examine the unique cinematic form of mockumentary. Individually, each of these essays looks at a given instance of mockumentary parody and subversion, examining the ways in which each calls into question our assumptions, pleasures, beliefs, and even our senses. Writing about national film, television, and new media traditions as diverse as their backgrounds, this volume's contributors explore and theorize the workings of mockumentaries, as well as the strategies and motivations of the writers and filmmakers who brought them into being.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Cynthia J. Miller is the Film Review Editor of Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies and serves as President of the Literature/Film Association, as well as on the editorial advisory board for The Encyclopedia of Women and Popular Culture.
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Acknowledgments Introduction PROLOGUE: Nothing New under the Sun - Or on Film (Jerome Kuehl) LOST HISTORIES Chapter 1: Making up Mammy: Re-enacting Historical Erasure and Recasting Authenticity in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman (Eve Allegra Raimon) Chapter 2: Peter Delpeut's The Forbidden Quest: Truth in Fiction (Robert Weiner) Chapter 3: Mercury's on the Launch Pad, but Cadillac's on the Moon: The Old Negro Space Program (Cynthia J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper) POPULAR CULTURE AS COMMENTARY Chapter 4: Polka Settles the Score in The Schmenges: The Last Polka (Linda Kornasky) Chapter 5: Experiments in Parody and Satire: Short-Form Mockumentary Series (Craig Hight) Chapter 6: Commando Raids on the Nature of Reality (Gary D. Rhodes) DARING TO BELIEVE Chapter 7: Aching to Believe: Forgotten Silver and National Identity (Scott Wilson Chapter 8: 'That's Not Zen!': Mocking Ethnographic Film in Doris Dörrie's Enlightenment Guaranteed (Heather Merle Benbow Chapter 9: The Proper Care and Feeding of An American Messiah (Christopher Hansen) THE WAR THAT WASN'T Chapter 10: It Might Have Happened Here: How Nazi Germany Won the War (C. Tibbetts) Chapter 11: Between What Is and What If: Kevin Willmott's CSA (Thomas Prasch) Chapter 12: The "Serious" Mockumentary: The Trivialization of Disaster? The Case of Peter Watkins (James M. Welsh) Chapter 13: The Making of It Happened Here (Kevin Brownlow) EPILOGUE: Mockumentaries Meet New Media (Spencer Schaffner) Filmography Index About the Contributors About the Editor
Acknowledgments Introduction PROLOGUE: Nothing New under the Sun - Or on Film (Jerome Kuehl) LOST HISTORIES Chapter 1: Making up Mammy: Re-enacting Historical Erasure and Recasting Authenticity in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman (Eve Allegra Raimon) Chapter 2: Peter Delpeut's The Forbidden Quest: Truth in Fiction (Robert Weiner) Chapter 3: Mercury's on the Launch Pad, but Cadillac's on the Moon: The Old Negro Space Program (Cynthia J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper) POPULAR CULTURE AS COMMENTARY Chapter 4: Polka Settles the Score in The Schmenges: The Last Polka (Linda Kornasky) Chapter 5: Experiments in Parody and Satire: Short-Form Mockumentary Series (Craig Hight) Chapter 6: Commando Raids on the Nature of Reality (Gary D. Rhodes) DARING TO BELIEVE Chapter 7: Aching to Believe: Forgotten Silver and National Identity (Scott Wilson Chapter 8: 'That's Not Zen!': Mocking Ethnographic Film in Doris Dörrie's Enlightenment Guaranteed (Heather Merle Benbow Chapter 9: The Proper Care and Feeding of An American Messiah (Christopher Hansen) THE WAR THAT WASN'T Chapter 10: It Might Have Happened Here: How Nazi Germany Won the War (C. Tibbetts) Chapter 11: Between What Is and What If: Kevin Willmott's CSA (Thomas Prasch) Chapter 12: The "Serious" Mockumentary: The Trivialization of Disaster? The Case of Peter Watkins (James M. Welsh) Chapter 13: The Making of It Happened Here (Kevin Brownlow) EPILOGUE: Mockumentaries Meet New Media (Spencer Schaffner) Filmography Index About the Contributors About the Editor
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