Faking It: Mock-Documentary and the Subversion of Factuality

by Craig Hight and Jane Roscoe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719056411
• ISBN13: 9780719056413
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.4"