An edition of F is for phony (2006)
F Is For Phony
Fake Documentary And Truth'S Undoing (Visible Evidence)
By Alexandra Juhasz,Jesse Lerner,Alexandra Juhasz Juhasz
Publish Date
September 22, 2006
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Language
eng
Pages
250
Description:
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.