mockumentary

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mockumentary

Etymology edit

Blend of mock +‎ documentary.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

Audio (US) (file)

Noun edit

mockumentary (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, […]

Synonyms edit

Translations edit

programme

Finnish: mukadokumentti, tekodokumentti
French: faux documentaire m, documenteur (fr) m, mockumentaire (fr)
German: Mockumentary (de) m or f or n
Portuguese: falso documentário m, pseudodocumentário m
Russian: мокументальный фильм (mokumentalʹnyj filʹm)

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.

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