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Too Bold for the Box Office - The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small (Hardcover)
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Too Bold for the Box Office - The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small (Hardcover)
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Although considered a relatively new genre, the mockumentary has
existed nearly as long as filmmaking itself and has become one of
the most common forms of film and television comedy today. In order
to better understand the larger cultural truths artfully woven into
their deception, these works demonstrate just how tenuous and
problematic our collective understandings of our social worlds can
be. In Too Bold for the Box Office: The Mockumentary from Big
Screen to Small, Cynthia J. Miller has assembled essays by scholars
and filmmakers who examine this unique cinematic form.
Individually, each of these essays looks at a given instance of
mockumentary parody and subversion, examining the ways in which
each calls into question our assumptions, pleasures, beliefs, and
even our senses. Writing about national film, television, and new
media traditions as diverse as their backgrounds, this volume's
contributors explore and theorize the workings of mockumentaries,
as well as the strategies and motivations of the writers and
filmmakers who brought them into being. Reflections by filmmakers
Kevin Brownlow (It Happened Here), Christopher Hansen (The Proper
Care and Feeding of An American Messiah), and Spencer Schaffner
(The Urban Literacy Manifesto) add valued perspective and
significantly deepen the discussions found in the volume's other
contributions. This collection of essays on films, television
programming, and new media illustrates common threads running
across cultures and eras and attempts to answer sweeping
existential questions about the nature of social life and the human
condition.
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