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語源

Blend of mock +‎ documentary.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌmɑkjuˈmɛn(t)əɹi/, /ˌmɔk-/

名詞

mockumentary (plural mockumentaries)

1. (film) A film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire.

   Synonyms: false documentary, fictional documentary

   “This Is Spinal Tap” is one of the most famous mockumentaries.

   • 2010, Douglas Holt, Douglas Cameron, Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 345:

     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.

   • 2018, Richard Wallace, Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity, Springer, →ISBN, page 87:

     The resonances between This is Spinal Tap and other documentary and mockumentary texts is pervasive, […]

   • 2021 October 5, Ian Bogost, “A Day Without Facebook”, in The Atlantic‎:

     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.

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Further reading

• “mockumentary”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.