F Is for Phony: Fake Documentary And Truth's Undoing

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U of Minnesota Press, 2006 - Documentary-style films - 255 pages
 

Contents

Steel Engines and Cardboard Rockets The Status of Fiction and Nonfiction in Early Cinema
39
La Venganza de Pancho Villa A Lost and Found Border Film
50
Trashing Shulie Remnants from Some Abandoned Feminist History
59
No Lies about Ruins
67
The Past in Ruins Postmodern Politics and the Fake History Film
76
Land without Bread
91
Surrealist Ethnography Las Hurdes and the Documentary Unconscious
99
Extracts from an Imaginary Interview Questions and Answers about Bontoc Eulogy
116
Forgotten Silver A New Zealand Television Hoax and Its Audience
171
The Truth about No Lies If You Can Believe It
187
Screen Memories Fakeness in Asian American Media Practice
196
Faking What? Making a Mockery of Documentary
223
As a Finale Reflections on a Phantasm
236
Filmography
239
Contributors
243
Index
247

Makes Me Feel Mighty Real The Watermelon Woman and the Critique of Black Visuality
130
The Artifice of Realism and the Lure of the Real in Orson Welless F for Fake and Other Treasueres
143

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