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Faking it : mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality / Jane Roscoe and Craig Hight.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2001Distributor: New York : Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. by Palgrave Description: ix, 222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0719056403
  • 9780719056406
  • 0719056411
  • 9780719056413
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.195 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.D62 R67 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 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 1: parody -- 7. Degree 2: critique and hoax -- 8. Degree 3: deconstruction -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "This exceptional book offers the first major study of mock-documentary. The authors examine the relatively new media form along with the association between factual codes and conventions, and the discourses which underpin the genre. The analysis includes detailed explorations of Woody Allen's Zelig, Peter Greenaway's The Falls, the Beatles' spoof The Rutles as well as Bob Roberts, This is Spinal Tap, and Man Bites Dog."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-216) and index.

Filmography: p. [190]-205.

List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 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 1: parody -- 7. Degree 2: critique and hoax -- 8. Degree 3: deconstruction -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index.

"This exceptional book offers the first major study of mock-documentary. The authors examine the relatively new media form along with the association between factual codes and conventions, and the discourses which underpin the genre. The analysis includes detailed explorations of Woody Allen's Zelig, Peter Greenaway's The Falls, the Beatles' spoof The Rutles as well as Bob Roberts, This is Spinal Tap, and Man Bites Dog."--Publisher description.

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