Gary D. Rhodes, a documentary filmmaker, is a professor at the Queen’s University, Belfast. John Parris Springer is a professor of English and film studies at the University of Central Oklahoma. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.

“recommended”—Choice.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction      1. Docudrama and Mock-Documentary: Defining Terms, Proposing CanonsSteven N. Lipkin, Derek Paget and Jane Roscoe      112. The Newspaper Meets the Dime Novel: Docudrama in Early CinemaJohn Parris Springer      273. On the Edges of Fiction: Silent Actualités, City Symphonies and Early SF MoviesMark Bould      434. This Reality Which Is Not One: Flaherty, Buñuel and the Irrealism of Documentary CinemaJared F. Green      645. Reconstructing Reality: The Industrial Film as Faux DocumentaryDonald Levin      886. “Documenting” Communist Subversion: The Case of I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951)Reynold Humphries      1027. Teaching Fear in 1950s Science Fiction FilmsMichael Lee      1248. Mondo BarnumDoug Bentin      1449. In Search of Questions, or, A New Age Film OdysseyGary D. Rhodes      15410. Artifice and Artificiality in MockumentariesGerd Bayer      16411. “It Ain’t the Movies! It’s Real Life!” Cinematic Alchemy in Woody Allen’s “Woody Allen” D(M)oc(k)umentary OeuvreRobert Sickels      17912. “That’s Really the Title?” Deconstructing Deconstruction in The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993) and Real Life (1978)Harvey O’Brien      19113. Man Bites Dog: Deconstructing the Documentary LookJane Roscoe      20514. Stanley Kwan’s Centre Stage (1992): Postmodern Reflections of the Mirror Within the MirrorWayne Stein      21615. Fool’s Gold: New Zealand’s Forgotten Silver, Myth and National IdentityIan Conrich and Roy Smith      23016. Before Big Brother, There Was Blair Witch: The Selling of "Reality"Fincina Hopgood      23717. Chasing the Real: Reality Television and Documentary FormsLeigh H. Edwards      25318. The Future of Documentary? “Conditional Tense” Documentary and the Historical RecordPaul Ward      270About the Contributors      Index

Gary D. Rhodes, a documentary filmmaker, is a professor at the Queen’s University, Belfast. John Parris Springer is a professor of English and film studies at the University of Central Oklahoma. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.

“recommended”—Choice.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction      1. Docudrama and Mock-Documentary: Defining Terms, Proposing CanonsSteven N. Lipkin, Derek Paget and Jane Roscoe      112. The Newspaper Meets the Dime Novel: Docudrama in Early CinemaJohn Parris Springer      273. On the Edges of Fiction: Silent Actualités, City Symphonies and Early SF MoviesMark Bould      434. This Reality Which Is Not One: Flaherty, Buñuel and the Irrealism of Documentary CinemaJared F. Green      645. Reconstructing Reality: The Industrial Film as Faux DocumentaryDonald Levin      886. “Documenting” Communist Subversion: The Case of I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951)Reynold Humphries      1027. Teaching Fear in 1950s Science Fiction FilmsMichael Lee      1248. Mondo BarnumDoug Bentin      1449. In Search of Questions, or, A New Age Film OdysseyGary D. Rhodes      15410. Artifice and Artificiality in MockumentariesGerd Bayer      16411. “It Ain’t the Movies! It’s Real Life!” Cinematic Alchemy in Woody Allen’s “Woody Allen” D(M)oc(k)umentary OeuvreRobert Sickels      17912. “That’s Really the Title?” Deconstructing Deconstruction in The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993) and Real Life (1978)Harvey O’Brien      19113. Man Bites Dog: Deconstructing the Documentary LookJane Roscoe      20514. Stanley Kwan’s Centre Stage (1992): Postmodern Reflections of the Mirror Within the MirrorWayne Stein      21615. Fool’s Gold: New Zealand’s Forgotten Silver, Myth and National IdentityIan Conrich and Roy Smith      23016. Before Big Brother, There Was Blair Witch: The Selling of "Reality"Fincina Hopgood      23717. Chasing the Real: Reality Television and Documentary FormsLeigh H. Edwards      25318. The Future of Documentary? “Conditional Tense” Documentary and the Historical RecordPaul Ward      270About the Contributors      Index