Faking it : Mock-Documentary and the Subversion of Factuality

Name: Faking it
Brand: Manchester University Press
SKU: 9780719056413
Price: 2800 KES
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ISBN: 9780719056413

by Craig Hight , Jane Roscoe

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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 Film history, theory or 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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