F is for phony : fake documentary and truth's undoing / Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner, editors.
Fake documentaries mimic documentary genre expectations, unraveling the documentary's authority and dismantling understandings of identity, history, and nation. The interdisciplinary essays in F Is for Phony discuss a broad scope of works and explore issues raised by "fake docs" such...
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| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2006]
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| Series: | Visible evidence ;
v. 17. |
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| Summary: | Fake documentaries mimic documentary genre expectations, unraveling the documentary's authority and dismantling understandings of identity, history, and nation. The interdisciplinary essays in F Is for Phony discuss a broad scope of works and explore issues raised by "fake docs" such as the fiction/documentary divide, the ethics of reality-based manipulation, and whether documentariness derives from form or reception. Defining the borderline between fact and fiction, the contributors reveal what fake documentaries imply and usually make explicit: that many documentaries lie to tell the truth, and that the truth is relative. |
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| Physical Description: | 255 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography: p. 241-243. |
| ISBN: | 0816642508 0816642516 9780816642502 9780816642519 |