Faking it : Mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality

Craig Hight

ISBN 10: 0719056411 / ISBN 13: 9780719056413

Edité par Manchester University Press, 2001

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Faking it : Mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality
• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0719056411
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780719056413
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 140 H x 15 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 140 millimètres de hauteur par 15 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 336 grammes

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Synopsis

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.

À propos des auteurs

Craig Hight is a Lecturer in the Department of Screen and Media Studies, Waikato University, New Zealand

Jane Roscoe teaches in the School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia