Faking it : Mock-Documentary and the Subversion of Factuality
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0719056411
ISBN-13
9780719056413
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 22nd, 2001
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
316 grams
Dimensions
21.30 x 14.00 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Film theory & criticism
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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".
The first major study of mock-documentary - one of a number of screen forms that play with the assumed boundaries between ''fact'' and ''fiction''. Examines mock-documentary through the specific relationship which the form has with documentary. Part of a wider discussion of the increasingly fragile association between factual codes and conventions and the discourses which underpin the documentary genre. Includes detailed discussions of a number of key mock-documentary texts, ranging from Woody Allen''s Zelig, Peter Greenaway''s The Falls, and the Beatles spoof The Rutles through to such classic examples as Bob Roberts, This is Spinal Tap and Man Bites Dog. Opens out this relatively new media form and by doing so throws light on the status of the documentary itself.
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