Craig Hight, Jane Roscoe

Faking it

Mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the mock-documentary through the specific relationship which the form constructs with documentary. The analysis includes detailed discussions of a number of key mock-documentary texts ranging from "Zelig" and "The Falls" through to examples like "Bob Roberts" and "This is Spinal Tap".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780719056413
• ISBN-10: 0719056411
• Artikelnr.: 21033436

Autorenporträt

Craig Hight is a Lecturer in the Department of Screen and Media Studies, Waikato University, New Zealand. Jane Roscoe teaches in the School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality 1. Factual
discourse and the cultural placing of documentary 2. Recent transformations
of the documentary genre 3. A cousin for the drama-documentary: Situating
the mock-documentary 4. Building a mock-documentary schema 5. A suggested
genealogy 6. Degree one: parody 7. Degree two: critique and hoax 8. Degree
three: deconstruction Conclusion Filmography Bibliography Index