"Mock-documentary" a dokumentalne fałszerstwa
Mock-documentary and false documentary

Summary/Abstract: A "mock-documentary" is a fictional text that uses the documentary codes and conventions to look and sound as a documentary text, which challenges a special status of the documentary and suggests a new relationship between the public and the documentary genre, putting to the test spectators’ abilities to differentiate between truth and fiction. Kosińska-Krippner presents the definition and characteristic features of mock-documentary and introduces the reader to the views of Jane Roscoe and Craig Hight, the authors of the first monograph of the sub-genre. In "Faking it: Mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality" (2001), the two identified the probable „pioneers” of mock-documentary, set contexts essential for reflections of the form, and, first and foremost, divided mock-documentary into three categories, depending on the type of relation a given text builds with factual discourse (parody, critique and deconstruction). Kosińska-Krippner discusses cases of reality manipulation in documentary films and numerous examples of false TV documentaries in the 1990s in order to point to the differences between mock-documentary and false documentary.

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