Faking It: Mock-Documentary and the Subversion of Factuality

Roscoe, Jane/ Hight, Craig

ISBN 10: 0719056411 / ISBN 13: 9780719056413

Published by Manchester Univ Pr, 2002

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illustrated edition. 240 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Faking It: Mock-Documentary and the Subversion of Factuality
• Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719056411
• ISBN 13: 9780719056413
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New

About this title

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.

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