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F is for phony : fake documentary and truth's undoing / Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Visible evidence ; v. 17.Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 255 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0816642508
  • 0816642516
  • 9780816642502
  • 9780816642519
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.18 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.D62 F3 2006
Contents:
Introduction : phony definitions and troubling taxonomies of the fake documentary / Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner -- 1. Steel engines and cardboard rockets : the status of fiction and nonfiction in early cinema / Charlie Keil -- 2. La Venganza de Pancho Villa : a lost and found border film / Gregorio C. Rocha -- 3. Trashing Shulie : remnants from some abandoned feminist history / Elisabeth Subrin -- 4. No lies about Ruins / Jesse Lerner -- 5. The past in Ruins : postmodern politics and the fake history film / Steve Anderson -- 6. Land without bread / Luis Bunuel -- 7. Surrealist ethnography : Las Hurdes and the documentary unconscious / Catherine Russell -- 8. Extracts from an imaginary interview : questions and answers about Bontoc eulogy / Marlon Fuentes -- 9. Makes me feel mighty real : The watermelon woman and the critique of black visuality / Robert F. Reid-Pharr -- 10. The artifice of realism and the lure of the "real" in Orson Welles's F for fake and other T(r)eas(u)er(e)s / Catherine L. Benamou -- 11. Forgotten silver : a New Zealand television hoax and its audience / Craig Hight and Jane Roscoe -- 12. The truth about No lies (if you can believe it) / Mitchell W. Block -- 13. Screen memories : fakeness in Asian American media practice / Eve Oishi -- 14. Faking what? : making a mockery of documentary / Alisa Lebow -- 15. As a finale : reflections on a phantasm / Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner.
Summary: Fake documentaries mimic documentary genre expectations, unraveling the documentary's authority and dismantling understandings of identity, history, and nation. The interdisciplinary essays in F Is for Phony discuss a broad scope of works and explore issues raised by "fake docs" such as the fiction/documentary divide, the ethics of reality-based manipulation, and whether documentariness derives from form or reception. Defining the borderline between fact and fiction, the contributors reveal what fake documentaries imply and usually make explicit: that many documentaries lie to tell the truth, and that the truth is relative.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography: p. 241-243.

Introduction : phony definitions and troubling taxonomies of the fake documentary / Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner -- 1. Steel engines and cardboard rockets : the status of fiction and nonfiction in early cinema / Charlie Keil -- 2. La Venganza de Pancho Villa : a lost and found border film / Gregorio C. Rocha -- 3. Trashing Shulie : remnants from some abandoned feminist history / Elisabeth Subrin -- 4. No lies about Ruins / Jesse Lerner -- 5. The past in Ruins : postmodern politics and the fake history film / Steve Anderson -- 6. Land without bread / Luis Bunuel -- 7. Surrealist ethnography : Las Hurdes and the documentary unconscious / Catherine Russell -- 8. Extracts from an imaginary interview : questions and answers about Bontoc eulogy / Marlon Fuentes -- 9. Makes me feel mighty real : The watermelon woman and the critique of black visuality / Robert F. Reid-Pharr -- 10. The artifice of realism and the lure of the "real" in Orson Welles's F for fake and other T(r)eas(u)er(e)s / Catherine L. Benamou -- 11. Forgotten silver : a New Zealand television hoax and its audience / Craig Hight and Jane Roscoe -- 12. The truth about No lies (if you can believe it) / Mitchell W. Block -- 13. Screen memories : fakeness in Asian American media practice / Eve Oishi -- 14. Faking what? : making a mockery of documentary / Alisa Lebow -- 15. As a finale : reflections on a phantasm / Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner.

Fake documentaries mimic documentary genre expectations, unraveling the documentary's authority and dismantling understandings of identity, history, and nation. The interdisciplinary essays in F Is for Phony discuss a broad scope of works and explore issues raised by "fake docs" such as the fiction/documentary divide, the ethics of reality-based manipulation, and whether documentariness derives from form or reception. Defining the borderline between fact and fiction, the contributors reveal what fake documentaries imply and usually make explicit: that many documentaries lie to tell the truth, and that the truth is relative.

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