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F is for phony : fake documentary and truth's undoing

Title
F is for phony : fake documentary and truth's undoing / Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner, editors.
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2006], ©2006.
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Additional Authors
  • Juhasz, Alexandra.
  • Lerner, Jesse.
Description
255 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
Series Statement
Visible evidence ; v. 17
Uniform Title
Visible evidence ; v. 17.
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Filmography: p. 241-243.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : phony definitions and troubling taxonomies of the fake documentary / Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner -- 1. Steel engines and cardboard rockets : the status of fiction and nonfiction in early cinema / Charlie Keil -- 2. La Venganza de Pancho Villa : a lost and found border film / Gregorio C. Rocha -- 3. Trashing Shulie : remnants from some abandoned feminist history / Elisabeth Subrin -- 4. No lies about Ruins / Jesse Lerner -- 5. The past in Ruins : postmodern politics and the fake history film / Steve Anderson -- 6. Land without bread / Luis Bunuel -- 7. Surrealist ethnography : Las Hurdes and the documentary unconscious / Catherine Russell -- 8. Extracts from an imaginary interview : questions and answers about Bontoc eulogy / Marlon Fuentes -- 9. Makes me feel mighty real : The watermelon woman and the critique of black visuality / Robert F. Reid-Pharr -- 10. The artifice of realism and the lure of the "real" in Orson Welles's F for fake and other T(r)eas(u)er(e)s / Catherine L. Benamou -- 11. Forgotten silver : a New Zealand television hoax and its audience / Craig Hight and Jane Roscoe -- 12. The truth about No lies (if you can believe it) / Mitchell W. Block -- 13. Screen memories : fakeness in Asian American media practice / Eve Oishi -- 14. Faking what? : making a mockery of documentary / Alisa Lebow -- 15. As a finale : reflections on a phantasm / Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner.
ISBN
  • 0816642508 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 0816642516 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006013896
  • 9780816642502
  • 9780816642519
OCLC
  • OCM67872312
  • SCSB-5285325
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