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Television mockumentary : reflexivity, satire and a call to play / Craig Hight.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.8.C66 G555 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hight, Craig.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television comedies--History and criticism.
- Television comedies.
- Documentary-style films--History and criticism.
- Documentary-style films.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Contents:
- I Defining mockumentary
- 1 Mockumentary discourse: a call to play
- 2 The mockumentary across media
- II Mockumentary in televisual space
- 3 The televisual space
- 4 Television and the real: documentary traditions and hybrid forms
- 5 Television realism, drama-documentary and dramatic vérité
- 6 Comedic traditions: satire, sitcom and comedy vérité
- III Television mockumentary series
- 7 Experimenting with mockumentary forms
- 8 Surveillance and discipline: fake news and mock-reality TV
- 9 Mockusoaps: people and places.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [310]-323) and index.
- Includes filmography (p. [294]-309).
- ISBN:
- 9780719073168
- 0719073162
- 0719073170
- 9780719073175
- OCLC:
- 456171868
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