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/ˌmɑkjuˈmɛn(t)əɹi/ · noun
(film) A film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire..
“This Is Spinal Tap” is one of the most famous mockumentaries.
Perlman devised a format inspired by the seminal mockumentary Spinal Tap, where the spot started with an ESPN announcer speaking to camera in a serious, straight voice, framing the story as “real” documentary.
The resonances between This is Spinal Tap and other documentary and mockumentary texts is pervasive, […]
In the 2004 film A Day Without a Mexican, Sergio Arau imagines, in mockumentary style, what would happen to California if its entire Mexican-immigrant population vanished. With so many housekeepers and farmworkers, teachers and gardeners, line cooks and police gone, the state seizes up.
Use mockumentary when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mockumentary means (film) A film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire..
Common synonyms include false documentary, fictional documentary.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“This Is Spinal Tap” is one of the most famous mockumentaries.
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