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Title Too bold for the box office [electronic resource] : the mockumentary from big screen to small / edited by Cynthia J. Miller.

Imprint Lanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012.

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Description xliv, 257 p. : col. ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- PROLOGUE: nothing new under the sun or on film / Jerome Kuehl -- LOST HISTORIES. Making up Mammy: Re-enacting Historical Erasure and Recasting Authenticity in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman / Eve Allegra Raimon -- Peter Delpeut's The Forbidden Quest: Truth in Fiction / Robert Weiner -- Mercury's on the Launch Pad, but Cadillac's on the Moon: The Old Negro Space Program / Cynthia J. Miller -- A 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 -- DARING TO BELIEVE. Aching to Believe: Forgotten Silver and National Identity / Scott Wilson -- "That's Not Zen!": Mocking Ethnographic Film in Doris Dorrie's Enlightenment Guaranteed / Heather Merle Benbow -- The Proper Care and Feeding of An American Messiah / Christopher Hansen -- 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Documentary-style films -- History and criticism.
Documentary-style television programs -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Miller, Cynthia J.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780810885189 (cloth alk. paper)
9780810885196 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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