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Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Examines the mock-documentary through the specific relationship which the form constructs with documentary. The analysis includes detailed discussions of a number of key mock-documentary texts ranging from "Zelig" and "The Falls" through to examples like "Bob Roberts" and "This is Spinal Tap". Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality1. Factual discourse and the cultural placing of documentary2. Recent transformations of the documentary genre3. A cousin for the drama-documentary: Situating the mock-documentary4. Building a mock-documentary schema5. A suggested genealogy6. Degree one: parody7. Degree two: critique and hoax8. Degree three: deconstructionConclusionFilmographyBibliographyIndex
