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Too bold for the box office : the mockumentary from big screen to small /
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 que...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham [Md.] :
Scarecrow Press, Inc.,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Prologue: nothing new under the sun
- or on film / Jerome Kuehl
- I. Lost histories
- Making up mammy: re-enacting historical erasure and recasting authenticity in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman / Eve Allegra Raimon
- Mercury's on the launch pad, but Cadillac's on the moon: The Old Negro Space Program / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
- Peter Delpeut's The Forbidden Quest: history and truth in fiction / Robert Weiner
- II. Popular culture as commentary
- Polka Settles the Score in The Schmenges: The Last Polka / Linda Kornasky
- Experiments in parody and satire: short-form mockumentary series / Craig Hight
- Commando raids on the nature of reality / Gary D. Rhodes
- III. Daring to believe
- Aching to believe: the heresy of Forgotten Silver / Scott Wilson
- "That's not Zen!": mocking ethnographic film in Doris Dèorrie's Enlightenment Guaranteed / Heather Merle Benbow
- The mind behind the mockumentary: The Proper Care and Feeding of An American Messiah / Chris Hansen
- IV. The war that wasn't
- It (might have) happened here: how Nazi Germany won the war / John C. Tibbetts
- Between what is and what if: Kevin Willmott's CSA / Thomas Prasch
- The "serious" mockumentary: the trivialization of disaster? The case of Peter Watkins / James M. Welsh
- The making of It Happened Here / Kevin Brownlow
- Epilogue: mockumentaries meet new media / Spencer Schaffner.