TY  - BOOK
AU  - Juhasz,Alexandra
AU  - Lerner,Jesse
TI  - F is for phony: fake documentary and truth's undoing 
T2  - Visible evidence
SN  - 0816642508
AV  - PN1995.9.D62 F3 2006
U1  - 070.18 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Documentary-style films
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -