Too bold for the box office the mockumentary from big screen to small / edited by Cynthia J. Miller.
| Other author | Miller, Cynthia J., 1958- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham [Md.] : Scarecrow Press, Inc., |
| Description | 1 online resource (xliv, 257 p.) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- Prologue: nothing new under the sun--or on film / Jerome Kuehl -- I. Lost histories -- Making up mammy: re-enacting historical erasure and recasting authenticity in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman / Eve Allegra Raimon -- Mercury's on the launch pad, but Cadillac's on the moon: The Old Negro Space Program / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Peter Delpeut's The Forbidden Quest: history and truth in fiction / Robert Weiner -- II. 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 -- III. Daring to believe -- Aching to believe: the heresy of Forgotten Silver / Scott Wilson -- "That's not Zen!": mocking ethnographic film in Doris Dèorrie's Enlightenment Guaranteed / Heather Merle Benbow -- The mind behind the mockumentary: The Proper Care and Feeding of An American Messiah / Chris Hansen -- IV. 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226), filmography and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Too bold for the box office Lanham [Md.] : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012. 9780810885189 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021675370 |
| ISBN | 9780810885196 ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |