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F Is for Phony Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner, editors Table of Contents		$22.50 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4251-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4251-9 $60.00 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4250-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4250-2
The first sustained critique of the mockumentary. Fake documentaries mimic documentary genre expectations, unraveling the documentary’s authority and dismantling understandings of identity, history, and nation. The interdisciplinary essays in F Is for Phony discuss a broad scope of works and explore issues raised by “fake docs” such as the fiction/documentary divide, the ethics of reality-based manipulation, and whether documentariness derives from form or reception. Defining the borderline between fact and fiction, the contributors reveal what fake documentaries imply and usually make explicit: that many documentaries lie to tell the truth, and that the truth is relative. “F is for Phony provides stimulating thought, if not answers, about fakery and truth in documentaries.” —Documentary Magazine Contributors: Steve Anderson, Catherine L. Benamou, Mitchell W. Block, Luis Buñuel, Marlon Fuentes, Craig Hight, Charlie Keil, Alisa Lebow, Eve Oishi, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Gregorio C. Rocha, Jane Roscoe, Catherine Russell, Elisabeth Subrin. Alexandra Juhasz is professor of media studies at Pitzer College. She is author of Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video (2001). Jesse Lerner is associate professor of media studies at Pitzer College. 244 pages | 25 halftones | 7 x 10 | 2006 Visible Evidence Series, volume 17 TABLE OF 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 Index

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