F Is for Phony
Fake Documentary and Truth S Undoing
Edición de la obra F is for phony
| Autor | Alexandra Juhasz Juhasz, Jesse Lerner |
|---|---|
| Editorial | University of Minnesota Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2006 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| ISBN-13 | 9781299911253 |
| Número de Cutter | J93f |
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.