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- 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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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Richard Wallace
About the author
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