书目名称 | Mockumentary Comedy |
副标题 | Performing Authentic |
编辑 | Richard Wallace |
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概述 | Offers an altogether new approach to investigating one of contemporary film and television’s most popular and persistent narrative modes.Brings a number of film and television texts into critical disc |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Comedy |
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描述 | 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. . |
出版日期 | Book 2018 |
关键词 | Comedy; Mockumentary; Documentary; politics; film; Television; The Beatles; post-truth; performance |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77848-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-08554-4 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-77848-8Series ISSN 2731-4332 Series E-ISSN 2731-4340 |
issn_series | 2731-4332 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 |