Mockumentary
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌmɑkjuˈmɛn(t)əɹi/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mockumentary is a noun meaning (film) A film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire.
Meaning
(film) A film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire.
Example Sentences
“This Is Spinal Tap” is one of the most famous mockumentaries.
The resonances between This is Spinal Tap and other documentary and mockumentary texts is pervasive, […]
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.
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.
Word Forms
- mockumentaries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mocumentary, mocudrama, miming, mock, mimestry, mimodrama.
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