| Faking It: Mock-Documentary and the Subversion of Factuality Contributor(s): Hight, Craig (Author), Roscoe, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0719056411 ISBN-13: 9780719056413 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2001 Annotation: This book offers the first major study of mock-documentary. The authors examine the relatively new form along with the association between factual codes and conventions, and the discourses which underpin the genre. The analysis includes detailed explorations of Woody Allen's "Zelig," Peter Greenaway's "The Falls," the Beatles' spoof "The Rutles" as well as "Bob Roberts," "This is Spinal Tap," and "Man Bites Dog," |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Television - General |
| Dewey: 070.195 |
| LCCN: 2001055895 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |