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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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2006]
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| Series: | Visible evidence ;
v. 17. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : phony definitions and troubling taxonomies of the fake documentary / Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner
- 1. Steel engines and cardboard rockets : the status of fiction and nonfiction in early cinema / Charlie Keil
- 2. La Venganza de Pancho Villa : a lost and found border film / Gregorio C. Rocha
- 3. Trashing Shulie : remnants from some abandoned feminist history / Elisabeth Subrin
- 4. No lies about Ruins / Jesse Lerner
- 5. The past in Ruins : postmodern politics and the fake history film / Steve Anderson
- 6. Land without bread / Luis Bunuel
- 7. Surrealist ethnography : Las Hurdes and the documentary unconscious / Catherine Russell
- 8. Extracts from an imaginary interview : questions and answers about Bontoc eulogy / Marlon Fuentes
- 9. Makes me feel mighty real : The watermelon woman and the critique of black visuality / Robert F. Reid-Pharr
- 10. The artifice of realism and the lure of the "real" in Orson Welles's F for fake and other T(r)eas(u)er(e)s / Catherine L. Benamou
- 11. Forgotten silver : a New Zealand television hoax and its audience / Craig Hight and Jane Roscoe
- 12. The truth about No lies (if you can believe it) / Mitchell W. Block
- 13. Screen memories : fakeness in Asian American media practice / Eve Oishi
- 14. Faking what? : making a mockery of documentary / Alisa Lebow
- 15. As a finale : reflections on a phantasm / Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner.