Meaning of mockumentary | Babel Free

Definitions

A film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire.

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Examples

““This Is Spinal Tap” is one of the most famous mockumentaries.”

“Perlman devised a format inspired by the seminal mockumentary Spinal Tap, where the spot started with an ESPN announcer speaking to camera in a serious, straight voice, framing the story as “real” documentary.”

“The resonances between This is Spinal Tap and other documentary and mockumentary texts is pervasive, […]”

“In the 2004 film A Day Without a Mexican, Sergio Arau imagines, in mockumentary style, what would happen to California if its entire Mexican-immigrant population vanished. With so many housekeepers and farmworkers, teachers and gardeners, line cooks and police gone, the state seizes up.”

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