Overview
- 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 discussion of the mockumentary for the first time
- Charts an entirely new terrain to existing texts on mockumentary, focusing on the significance of comedy and performance
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy (PSCOM)
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Richard Wallace is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mockumentary Comedy
Book Subtitle: Performing Authenticity
Authors: Richard Wallace
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77848-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77847-1Published: 31 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08554-4Published: 26 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77848-8Published: 13 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-4332
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4340
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 226
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Documentary, Popular Culture , Screen Performance, Comedy Studies