Mockumentary Comedy
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Mockumentary Comedy

Performing Authenticity

Richard Wallace

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Mockumentary Comedy

Performing Authenticity

Richard Wallace

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About This Book

This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television programmes make visible—through comedy—the performances that underpin straight documentaries and many of our public figures. Mockumentary Comedy focuses on the rock star and the politician, two figures that regularly feature as mockumentary subjects. These public figures are explored through detailed textual analyses of a range of film and television comedies, including A Hard Day's Night, This is Spinal Tap, The Thick of It, Veep and the works of Christopher Guest and Alison Jackson. This book broadens the scope of existing mockumentary scholarship by taking comedy seriously in a sustained way for the first time. It ultimately argues that the comedic performances— by performers and of documentary conventions—are central to the form's critical significance and popular appeal.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2018
ISBN
9783319778488
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

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    Citation styles for Mockumentary Comedy

    APA 6 Citation

    Wallace, R. (2018). Mockumentary Comedy ([edition unavailable]). Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3494354 (Original work published 2018)

    Chicago Citation

    Wallace, Richard. (2018) 2018. Mockumentary Comedy. [Edition unavailable]. Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.perlego.com/book/3494354.

    Harvard Citation

    Wallace, R. (2018) Mockumentary Comedy. [edition unavailable]. Palgrave Macmillan. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3494354 (Accessed: 5 July 2024).

    MLA 7 Citation

    Wallace, Richard. Mockumentary Comedy. [edition unavailable]. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Web. 5 July 2024.