Too bold for the box office
Subtitle: the mockumentary from big screen to small
By: edited by Cynthia J. Miller
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Inc.; Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780810885189; 9780810885196
Subjects: Documentary-style television programs; History and criticism; Documentary-style films
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: PROLOGUE: nothing new under the sun or on film / Jerome Kuehl; title: LOST HISTORIES. Making up Mammy: Re-enacting Historical Erasure and Recasting Authenticity in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman / Eve Allegra Raimon; title: Peter Delpeut's The Forbidden Quest: Truth in Fiction / Robert Weiner; title: Mercury's on the Launch Pad, but Cadillac's on the Moon: The Old Negro Space Program / Cynthia J. Miller; title: A POPULAR CULTURE AS COMMENTARY. Polka Settles the Score in The Schmenges: The Last Polka / Linda Kornasky; title: Experiments in Parody and Satire: Short-Form Mockumentary Series / Craig Hight; title: Commando Raids on the Nature of Reality / Gary D. Rhodes; title: DARING TO BELIEVE. Aching to Believe: Forgotten Silver and National Identity / Scott Wilson; title: "That's Not Zen!": Mocking Ethnographic Film in Doris Dörrie's Enlightenment Guaranteed / Heather Merle Benbow; title: The Proper Care and Feeding of An American Messiah / Christopher Hansen; title: THE WAR THAT WASN'T. It Might Have Happened Here: How Nazi Germany Won the War / John C. Tibbetts; title: Between What Is and What If: Kevin Willmott's CSA / Thomas Prasch; title: The "Serious" Mockumentary: The Trivialization of Disaster? The Case of Peter Watkins / James M. Welsh; title: The Making of It Happened Here / Kevin Brownlow; title: EPILOGUE. Mockumentaries Meet New Media / Spencer Schaffner.