Docufictions : essays on the intersection of documentary and fictional filmmaking /
edited by Gary D. Rhodes and John Parris Springer.
- x, 294 pages ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Docudrama and mock-documentary : defining terms, proposing canons / The newspaper meets the dime novel : docudrama in early cinema / On the edges of fiction : silent actualites, city symphonies and early SF movies / This reality which is not one : Flaherty, Bunuel and the irrealism of documentary cinema / Reconstructing reality : the industrial film as faux documentary / "Documenting" communist subversion : the case of I was a communist for the F.B.I. (1951) / Teaching fear in 1950s science fiction films / Mondo Barnum / In search of questions, or, a new age film odyssey / Artifice and artificiality in mockumentaries / "It ain't the movies! It's real life!" : cinematic alchemy in Woody Allen's "Woody Allen" D(M)oc(k)umentary oeuvre / "That's really the title?" : deconstructing deconstruction in The positively true adventures of the alleged Texas cheerleader-murdering mom (1993) and Real life (1978) / Man bites dog : deconstructing the documentary look / Stanley Kwan's Centre stage (1992) : postmodern reflections of the mirror within the mirror / Fool's gold : New Zealand's Forgotten silver, myth and national identity / Before Big brother, there was Blair witch : the selling of "reality" / Chasing the real : reality television and documentary forms / The future of documentary? : "conditional tense" documentary and the historical record / Steven N. Lipkin, Derek Paget and Jane Roscoe -- John Parris Springer -- Mark Bould -- Jared F. Green -- Donald Levin -- Reynold Humphries -- Michael Lee -- Doug Bentin -- Gary D. Rhodes -- Gerd Bayer -- Robert Sickels -- Harvey O'Brien -- Jane Roscoe -- Wayne Stein -- Ian Conrich and Roy Smith -- Fincina Hopgood -- Leigh H. Edwards -- Paul Ward. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
"These 18 essays examine the relationships between narrative fiction films and documentary filmmaking. Topics include the docudrama in early cinema, the industrial film as faux documentary, the fear evoked in 1950s science fiction films, the selling of "reality" in mockumentaries, and reality television and documentary forms"--Provided by publisher.