F Is For Phony: Fake Documentary And TruthS Undoing
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
F Is For Phony: Fake Documentary And TruthS Undoing
By (Author) Alexandra Juhasz
By (author) Jesse Lerner
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st April 2007
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge
302.23
Physical Properties
Paperback
268
Width 178mm, Height 254mm, Spine 20mm
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.
Author Bio
Alexandra Juhasz is professor of media studies at Pitzer College. She is author of Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video (Minnesota, 2001). Jesse Lerner is associate professor of media studies at Pitzer College.
