mockumentary
English
editEtymology
editBlend of mock + documentary.[1]
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editNoun
editmockumentary (plural mockumentaries)
- (film) A film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire.
- 2010, Douglas Holt, Douglas Cameron, Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 345:
- Perlman devised a format inspired by the seminal mockumentary Spinal Tap, where the spot started with an ESPN announcer speaking to camera in a serious, straight voice, framing the story as “real” documentary.
- 2018, Richard Wallace, Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity, Springer, →ISBN, page 87:
- The resonances between This is Spinal Tap and other documentary and mockumentary texts is pervasive, […]
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References
edit- ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future[1], Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225
Further reading
edit- “mockumentary”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.