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Faking It Mock-Documentary and the Subversion of Factuality

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ISBN-10: 0719056411

ISBN-13: 9780719056413

Edition: 2001

Authors: Craig Hight, Jane Roscoe

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Faking It offers a study of mock-documentary - one of a number of screen forms that play with the assumed boundaries between fact and fiction. It examines mock-documentary through the relationship which the form constructs with documentary.
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 11/22/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

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

List of illustrations
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality
Factual discourse and the cultural placing of documentary
Recent transformations of the documentary genre
A cousin for the drama-documentary: situating the mock-documentary
Building a mock-documentary schema
A suggested genealogy
Degree 1: parody
Degree 2: critique and hoax
Degree 3: deconstruction
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography
Index