F Is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing Volume 17

by Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816642516
• ISBN13: 9780816642519
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 10.0"