Too Bold for the Box Office : The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small.
Title:
Too Bold for the Box Office : The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small.
Author:
Miller, Cynthia J.
ISBN:
9780810885196
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (244 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: Nothing New under the Sun-Or on Film -- Part I: Lost Histories -- Chapter 1: Making Up Mammy: Reenacting Historical Erasure and Recasting Authenticity in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman -- Chapter 2: Mercury's on the Launch Pad, but Cadillac's on the Moon: The Old Negro Space Program -- Chapter 3: Peter Delpeut's The Forbidden Quest: History and Truth in Fiction -- Part II: Popular Culture as Commentary -- Chapter 4: Polka Settles the Score in The Schmenges: The Last Polka -- Chapter 5: Experiments in Parody and Satire: Short-Form Mockumentary Series -- Chapter 6: Commando Raids on the Nature of Reality -- Part III: Daring to Believe -- Chapter 7: Aching to Believe: The Heresy of Forgotten Silver -- Chapter 8: "That's Not Zen!" Mocking Ethnographic Film in Doris Dörrie's Enlightenment Guaranteed -- Chapter 9: The Mind behind the Mockumentary: The Proper Care and Feeding of an American Messiah -- Part IV: The War That Wasn't -- Chapter 10: It (Might Have) Happened Here: How Nazi Germany Won the War -- Chapter 11: Between What Is and What If: Kevin Willmott's CSA -- Chapter 12: The "Serious" Mockumentary: The Trivialization of Disaster? The Case of Peter Watkins -- Chapter 13: The Making of It Happened Here -- Epilogue: Mockumentaries Meet New Media -- Selected Filmography -- About the Contributors -- About the Editor.
Abstract:
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 and filmmakers who brought them into being.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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