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Too bold for the box office :

(Number (ISBN

0810885182 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

0810885190 (ebook)

(Number (ISBN

9780810885189 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780810885196 (ebook)

Number

b415370

Title Proper

Too bold for the box office :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the mockumentary from big screen to small /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Cynthia J. Miller

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Lanham [Md.] :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Scarecrow Press, Inc.,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2012

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xliv, 257 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) , filmography and index

Text of Note

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

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Documentary-style films-- History and criticism

Documentary-style television programs-- History and criticism

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Book number

Miller, Cynthia J

Electronic name

[Book]

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