Contents -- Introduction: Phony Definitions and Troubling Taxonomies of the Fake Documentary -- PART I. HISTORY AS BUNK -- 1 Steel Engines and Cardboard Rockets: The Status of Fiction and Nonfiction in Early Cinema -- 2 La Venganza de Pancho Villa: A Lost and Found Border Film -- 3 Trashing Shulie: Remnants from Some Abandoned Feminist History -- 4 No Lies about Ruins -- 5 The Past in Ruins: Postmodern Politics and the Fake History Film -- PART II. DOUBLE-CROSS CULTURAL FILMMAKING -- 6 Land without Bread -- 7 Surrealist Ethnography: Las Hurdes and the Documentary Unconscious -- 8 Extracts from an Imaginary Interview: Questions and Answers about Bontoc Eulogy -- 9 Makes Me Feel Mighty Real: The Watermelon Woman and the Critique of Black Visuality -- PART III. DECEPTION -- 10 The Artifice of Realism and the Lure of the "Real" in Orson Welles's F for Fake and Other T(r)eas(u)er(e)s -- 11 Forgotten Silver: A New Zealand Television Hoax and Its Audience -- 12 The Truth about No Lies (If You Can Believe It) -- 13 Screen Memories: Fakeness in Asian American Media Practice -- PART IV. CONCLUSIONS -- 14 Faking What? Making a Mockery of Documentary -- 15 As a Finale: Reflections on a Phantasm -- Filmography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.