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BL
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586151
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b415370
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| Title & Author
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Too bold for the box office : : the mockumentary from big screen to small /\ edited by Cynthia J. Miller
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| Publication Statement
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Lanham [Md.] :: Scarecrow Press, Inc.,, 2012
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xliv, 257 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780810885189 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0810885182 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780810885196 (ebook)
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: 0810885190 (ebook)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) , filmography and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Subject
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Documentary-style films-- History and criticism
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Documentary-style television programs-- History and criticism
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| LC Classification
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PN1995.9.D62T66 2012
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| Added Entry
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Miller, Cynthia J
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