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F Is For Phony: Fake Documentary And Truth’S Undoing
Alexandra Juhasz
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Description for F Is For Phony: Fake Documentary And Truth’S Undoing
Paperback. Editor(s): Juhasz, Alexandra; Lerner, Jesse. Series: Visible Evidence S. Num Pages: 244 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: JFD; JFHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 472.
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.
Contributors: Steve Anderson, Catherine L. Benamou, Mitchell ... Read more
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.
Contributors: Steve Anderson, Catherine L. Benamou, Mitchell ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Series
Visible Evidence S.
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816642519
SKU
V9780816642519
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About Alexandra Juhasz
Alexandra Juhasz is professor of media studies at Pitzer College. She is author of Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video (Minnesota, 2001). Jesse Lerner is associate professor of media studies at Pitzer College.
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