E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
Hight / Roscoe Faking it
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4137-8
Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality
E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4137-8
Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.
