Too Bold for the Box Office The Mockumentary

Although considered a relatively new genre, the mockumentary has existed nearly as long as filmmaking itself and has become one of the more common forms of film and television comedy today. In order to better: understand the larger cultural truths artfully woven into their deception, these works demonstrate just how tenuous and problematic our collective social understanding can be.

Cynthia J. Miller is the film review editor of Film History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies and serves as president of the Literature/Film Association, as well as on the editorial advisory board for The Encyclopedia of Women and Popular Culture. She is the coeditor of Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier (Scarecrow, 2012).

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Prologue: Nothing New under the Sun-Or on Film	p. xxiii
Lost Histories
Making Up Mammy: Reenacting Historical Erasure and Recasting Authenticity in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman	p. 3
Mercury's on the Launch Pad, but Cadillac's on the Moon: The Old Negro Space Program	p. 19
Peter Delpeut's The Forbidden Quest: History and Truth in Fiction	p. 35
Popular Culture as Commentary
Polka Settles the Score in The Schmenges: The Last Polka	p. 53
Experiments in Parody and Satire: Short-Form Mockumentary Series	p. 73
Commando Raids on the Nature of Reality	p. 91
Daring to Believe
Aching to Believe: The Heresy of Forgotten Silver	p. 107
"That's Not Zen!" Mocking Ethnographic Film in Doris Dörrie's Enlightenment Guaranteed	p. 121
The Mind behind the Mockumentary: The Proper Caf? and Feeding of an American Messiah	p. 137
The War That Wasn't
It (Might Have) Happened Here: How Nazi Germany Won the War	p. 153
Between What Is and What If: Kevin WillmottÆs CSA	p. 167
The "Serious" Mockumentary: The Trivialization of Disaster? The Case of Peter Watkins	p. 181
The Making of It Happened Here	p. 193
Epilogue: Mockumentaries Meet New Media	p. 201
Selected Filmography	p. 213
Index	p. 227
About the Contributors	p. 251
About the Editor	p. 257
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