mockumentary

English

Etymology

Blend of mock +‎ documentary.[1]

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Noun

mockumentary (plural mockumentaries)

  1. (film) A film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire.
    Synonyms: false documentary, fictional documentary
    “This Is Spinal Tap” is one of the most famous mockumentaries.
    • 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, […]
    • 2021 October 5, Ian Bogost, “A Day Without Facebook”, in The Atlantic‎[2]:
      In the 2004 film A Day Without a Mexican, Sergio Arau imagines, in mockumentary style, what would happen to California if its entire Mexican-immigrant population vanished. With so many housekeepers and farmworkers, teachers and gardeners, line cooks and police gone, the state seizes up.

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References

  1. ^ 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

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