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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. Contributors: Steve Anderson, Catherine L. Benamou, Mitchell W. Block, Luis Bunuel, Marlon Fuentes, Craig Hight, Charlie Keil, Alisa Lebow, Eve Oishi, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Gregorio C. Rocha, Jane Roscoe, Catherine Russell, Elisabeth Subrin. 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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge

• Full title: F Is For Phony
• Author: Alexandra Juhasz
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268
• EAN: 9780816642519
• ISBN: 0816642516
• ID: 02166670
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Weight: 572 g
• Dimensions: 179 × 254 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. September 2006

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