FAKING IT
MOCK-DOCUMENTARY AND THE SUBVERSION OF FACTUALITY
HIGHT, CRAIG / ROSCOE, JANE
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'sZelig, Peter Greenaway's The Falls, the Beatles' spoof The Rutles as well as Bob Roberts, This is Spinal Tap, and Man Bites Dog.
About the Author(s)
Craig Hight is 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.
Table of Contents
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 One: Parody * Degree Two: Critique and Hoax * Degree Three: Deconstruction
