Faking It

Mock-Documentary and the Subversion of Factuality

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by Craig Hight and Jane Roscoe

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Documentary

Keywords

documentary, reality

Publishing date

2001

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 232 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-7190-5641-1
978-0-7190-5641-3

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the authors:
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

See the publisher website: Manchester University Press