Too bold for the box office : the mockumentary from big screen to small / edited by Cynthia J. Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Cynthia J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary-style films--History and criticism.

Documentary-style films.

Documentary-style television programs--History and criticism.

Documentary-style television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Too Bold for the Box Office, Cynthia J. Miller has assembled essays by scholars and filmmakers who examine the unique cinematic form of mockumentary. Individually, each of these essays looks at a given instance of mockumentary parody and subversion, examining the ways in which each calls into question our assumptions, pleasures, beliefs, and even our senses. Writing about national film, television, and new media traditions as diverse as their backgrounds, this volume's contributors explore and theorize the workings of mockumentaries, as well as the strategies and motivations of the writers

Contents:

Introduction

PROLOGUE: nothing new under the sun or on film / Jerome Kuehl

LOST HISTORIES. Making up Mammy: Re-enacting Historical Erasure and Recasting Authenticity in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman / Eve Allegra Raimon

Peter Delpeut's The Forbidden Quest: Truth in Fiction / Robert Weiner

Mercury's on the Launch Pad, but Cadillac's on the Moon: The Old Negro Space Program / Cynthia J. Miller

A POPULAR CULTURE AS COMMENTARY. Polka Settles the Score in The Schmenges: The Last Polka / Linda Kornasky

Experiments in Parody and Satire: Short-Form Mockumentary Series / Craig Hight

Commando Raids on the Nature of Reality / Gary D. Rhodes

DARING TO BELIEVE. Aching to Believe: Forgotten Silver and National Identity / Scott Wilson

"That's Not Zen!": Mocking Ethnographic Film in Doris Dörrie's Enlightenment Guaranteed / Heather Merle Benbow

The Proper Care and Feeding of An American Messiah / Christopher Hansen

THE WAR THAT WASN'T. It Might Have Happened Here: How Nazi Germany Won the War / John C. Tibbetts

Between What Is and What If: Kevin Willmott's CSA / Thomas Prasch

The "Serious" Mockumentary: The Trivialization of Disaster? The Case of Peter Watkins / James M. Welsh

The Making of It Happened Here / Kevin Brownlow

EPILOGUE. Mockumentaries Meet New Media / Spencer Schaffner.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

979-82-16-23397-8

1-283-52390-6

9786613836359

0-8108-8519-0

OCLC:

809539199