Title: F is for phony
Description: Fake documentaries mimic documentary genre expectations, unraveling the documentary's authority and dismantling understandings of identity, history, and nation. The interdisciplinary essays in F Is for Phony discuss a broad scope of works and explore issues raised by "fake docs" such as the fiction/documentary divide, the ethics of reality-based manipulation, and whether documentariness derives from form or reception. Defining the borderline between fact and fiction, the contributors reveal what fake documentaries imply and usually make explicit: that many documentaries lie to tell the truth, and that the truth is relative.
Subjects: History and criticism, Documentary-style films, Hoaxes & deceptions, Media studies, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, Film & Video - History & Criticism, Performing Arts, Cinema/Film: Book, Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism, Documentary mass media, Fiction, history and criticism