Television mockumentary
Subtitle: reflexivity, satire and a call to play
By: Craig Hight
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780719073168; 9780719073175
Subjects: History and criticism; Documentary-style films; Television comedies
Notes: Includes filmography (p. [294]-309).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I Defining mockumentary: Mockumentary discourse: a call to play; title: The mockumentary across media; title: Part II Mockumentary in televisual space: The televisual space; title: Television and the real: documentary traditions and hybrid forms; title: Television realism, drama-documentary and dramatic vérité; title: Comedic traditions: satire, sitcom and comedy vérité; title: Part III Television mockumentary series: Experimenting with mockumentary forms; title: Surveillance and discipline: fake news and mock-reality TV; title: Mockusoaps: people and places.