A01=Craig Hight
A01=Jane Roscoe
Author_Craig Hight
Author_Jane Roscoe
Category=ATFA
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Product details
- ISBN 9780719056413
- Weight: 304g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 22 Nov 2001
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. Part of a wider discussion of the increasingly fragile association between factual codes and conventions and the discourses which underpin the documentary genre. Includes detailed discussions of a number of key mock-documentary texts, ranging from Woody Allen's Zelig, Peter Greenaway's The Falls, and the Beatles spoof The Rutles through to such classic examples as Bob Roberts, This is Spinal Tap and Man Bites Dog. Opens out this relatively new media form and by doing so throws light on the status of the documentary itself.
Craig Hight is a Lecturer in the Department of Screen and Media Studies, Waikato University, New Zealand. Jane Roscoe teaches in the School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
