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Contents Introduction: Phony Definitions and Troubling Taxonomies of the Fake Documentary Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner Part I. History as Bunk 1. Steel Engines and Cardboard Rockets: The Status of Fiction and Nonfiction in Early Cinema Charlie Keil 2. La Venganza de Pancho Villa: A Lost and Found Border Film Gregorio C. Rocha 3. Trashing Shulie: Remnants from Some Abandoned Feminist History Elisabeth Subrin 4. No Lies about Ruins Jesse Lerner 5. The Past in Ruins: Postmodern Politics and the Fake History Film Steve Anderson Part II. Double-Cross Cultural Filmmaking 6. Land without Bread Luis Buñuel 7. Surrealist Ethnography: Las Hurdes and the Documentary Unconscious Catherine Russell 8. Extracts from an Imaginary Interview: Questions and Answers about Bontoc Eulogy Marlon Fuentes 9. Makes Me Feel Mighty Real: The Watermelon Woman and the Critique of Black Visuality Robert F. Reid-Pharr Part III. Deception 10. The Artifice of Realism and the Lure of the "Real" in Orson Welles's F for Fake and Other T(r)eas(u)er(e)s Catherine L. Benamou 11. Forgotten Silver: A New Zealand Television Hoax and Its Audience Craig Hight and Jane Roscoe 12. The Truth about No Lies (If You Can Believe It) Mitchell W. Block 13. Screen Memories: Fakeness in Asian American Media Practice Eve Oishi Part IV. Conclusions 14. Faking What? Making a Mockery of Documentary Alisa Lebow 15. As a Finale: Reflections on a Phantasm Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner Filmography Nizan Shaked Contributors Index
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Documentary-style films -- History and criticism.