Mock-Documentary and False Documentary
Beata Kosińska-Krippner
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.plInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
Abstract
A mock-documentary is a fictional text that uses the documentary codes and conventions to look and sound as a documentary text, which challenges a special status of the documentary and suggests a new relationship between the public and the documentary genre, putting to the test spectators’ abilities to differentiate between truth and fiction. Kosińska-Krippner presents the definition and characteristic features of mock-documentary and introduces the reader to the views of Jane Roscoe and Craig Hight, the authors of the first monograph of the sub-genre. In Faking it: Mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality' (2001), the two identified the probable „pioneers” of mock-documentary, set contexts essential for reflections of the form, and, first and foremost, divided mock-documentary into three categories, depending on the type of relation a given text builds with factual discourse (parody, critique and deconstruction). Kosińska-Krippner discusses cases of reality manipulation in documentary films and numerous examples of false TV documentaries in the 1990s in order to point to the differences between mock-documentary and false documentary.
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mock-documentary, false documentary, documentaryReferences
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Beata Kosińska-Krippnerkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Pracuje w Zakładzie Antropologii Kultury, Filmu i Sztuki Audiowizualnej Instytutu Sztuki PAN; zajmuje się teorią i historią filmu i telewizji; od 1998 r. sekretarz redakcji „Kwartalnika Filmowego”, w którym w latach 1993-2005 publikowała m.in. doroczną kronikę wydarzeń filmowych obejmującą lata 1992-2002. Od 1997 r. współpracuje z kwartalnikiem „Polish Culture” wydawanym przez Związek Polskich Autorów i Kompozytorów ZAKR. Na przełomie 1997 i 1998 r. współprowadziła autorską audycję radiową popularyzującą film. W latach 1997-1998 współpracowała z Polską Agencją Prasową (recenzje filmowe). Autorka Katalogu Filmów Dokumentalnych Programu II TVP S.A 1976-1996 (wyd. Telewizja Polska S.A. – Prasowa Agencja Telewizyjna, 1996). Konsultantka i autorka haseł z zakresu filmu do wydawnictw encyklopedycznych, m.in. 101 haseł do Światowej encyklopedii filmu religijnego (red. ks. Marek Lis, Adam Garbicz, wyd. Biały Kruk, 2007) oraz haseł osobowych do Leksykonu kultury polskiej poza krajem od roku 1939 (t. I, red. Krzysztof Dybciak, Zdzisław Kudelski, wyd. Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, Lublin 2000).
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