Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Lienemann Direct Response and Scholarly Promotions Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu The first sustained critique of the mockumentary. F Is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth¹s Undoing Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner, editors University of Minnesota Press | 244 pages | 2006 ISBN 0-8166-4250-8 | hardcover | $60.00 ISBN 0-8166-4251-6 | paperback | $20.00 Visible Evidence Series, volume 17 The essays in F Is for Phony discuss a broad scope of works and explore issues raised by ³fake docs² such as the fiction/documentary divide, the ethics of reality-based manipulation, and whether documentariness derives from form or reception. Defining the borderline between fact and fiction, the contributors reveal what fake documentaries imply and usually make explicit: that many documentaries lie to tell the truth, and that the truth is relative. Contributors: Steve Anderson, Catherine L. Benamou, Mitchell W. Block, Luis Buñuel, Marlon Fuentes, Craig Hight, Charlie Keil, Alisa Lebow, Eve Oishi, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Gregorio C. Rocha, Jane Roscoe, Catherine Russell, Nizan Shaked, Elisabeth Subrin. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book¹s webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/J/juhasz_f.html For more information on the Visible Evidence Series: http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/visibleevidence.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html