Factual discourse and the cultural placing of documentary 2. Mockdocumentary and the subversion of factuality by craig hight author, jane roscoe author visit amazons jane roscoe page. The parodic nature of the appropriation of factual codes and. This volume is predicated on a category, the fake documentary, that the. It was written and directed by peter jackson and costa botes, both of whom appear in the film in their roles as makers of the documentary. The authors examine the relatively new form along with the association between factual codes and. This book offers the first major study of mockdocumentary. Mockdocumentary and the subversion of factuality 1. Carl plantinga in 2001jane roscoe and craig hight, classifying film scripts according to their relation with the. Mockdocumentary and the subversion of factuality, illusions no. The book manages very well to outline the nature of the phenomenon in great detail. Craig hight faking it offers a study of mockdocumentary one of a number of screen forms that play with the assumed boundaries between fact and fiction. Ma dissertation contents communication design digital media. The challenge for me is to find a balance between using valid information from this and other more diversified sources, and injecting them with my personal approach, thus trying to go.
Faking it mockdocumentary and the subversion of factuality by craig hight and jane roscoe. Mockdocumentary and the subversion of factuality have chosen to locate what they call mockdocumentaries in yet another series of unstable and overly constricting categories, such as drama documentary and docudrama. The parodic nature of the appropriation of factual codes. Jane roscoe and craig hight there are any number of fiction and nonfiction texts which challenge, articulate or reinterpret many of the central tensions within the documentary form. The parodic nature of the appropriation of factual codes and conventions in mockumentaries both parody and satire depend on the sophistication of the viewer, and on some familiarity with the parodic target. Subversion of factuality have chosen to locate what they call mock. Whatever turns out to be the case, this analysis of the form provides a useful discussion of the critique and subversion of factuality provided by mock documentary which, in itself, is a positive contribution to the developing theorisation of documentary, especially as, in this case, it is presented in a manner accessible to readers with little. Whatever turns out to be the case, this analysis of the form provides a useful discussion of the critique and subversion of factuality provided by mockdocumentary which, in itself, is a positive contribution to the developing theorisation of documentary, especially as, in this case, it is presented in a manner accessible to readers with little. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Mockdocumentary and the subversion of factuality authors. The first major study of mock documentary one of a number of screen forms that play with the assumed boundaries between fact and fiction. Examines mock documentary through the specific relationship which the form has with documentary.
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This site contains a variety of resources including a filmography with links to online material. In this study, mockdocumentary and its relationship with the most popular modes of. Part of a wider discussion of the increasingly fragile association between factual codes and conventions and the discourses which underpin the documentary. There are any number of fiction and nonfiction texts which challenge, articulate or reinterpret many of the central tensions within the documentary form. The first major study of mockdocumentary one of a number of screen forms that play with the assumed boundaries between fact and fiction. Examines mockdocumentary through the specific relationship which the form has with documentary.
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