The Parodic Nature of the Appropriation of Factual Codes and Conventions in Mockumentaries
The Parodic Nature of the Appropriation of Factual Codes and Conventions in Mockumentaries

Summary/Abstract: In 2001, Jane Roscoe and Craig Hight, classifying film scripts according to their relation with the factual discourse generated by a given text, created their own list of mock-documentaries.1 It did not include several interesting examples of the genre produced outside the English-speaking world such as Dark Side of the Moon, Year of the Devil, Czech Dream and First on the Moon. If we were to look at them through the prism of the classification proposed by the Australian- New Zealand researchers then they can be placed probably more between Degree II (critique) and Degree III (deconstruction) of mockumentariness rather than belonging to Degree I (parody) although in a certain sense they all possess the features of a parody.

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