Too bold for the box office : the mockumentary from big screen to small / edited by Cynthia J. Miller.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226), filmography and index.

Prologue : Nothing new under the sun, or on film / Jerome Kuehl -- Pt. I. Lost histories : Making up mammy: re-enacting historical erasure and recasting authenticity in Cheryl Dunye's The watermelon woman / Eve Allegra Raimon -- Mercury's on the launch pad, but Cadillac's on the moon: The old Negro space program / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Peter Delpeut's The forbidden quest: history and truth in fiction / Robert Weiner -- Pt. II. Popular culture as commentary : Polka settles the score in The Schmenges: the last polka / Linda Kornasky -- Experiments in parody and satire: short-form mockumentary series / Craig Hight -- Commando raids on the nature of reality / Gary D. Rhodes -- Pt. III. Daring to believe : Aching to believe: the heresy of Forgotten silver / Scott Wilson -- "That's not zen!": mocking ethnographic film in Doris Dörrie's Enlightenment guaranteed / Heather Merle Benbow -- The mind behind the mockumentary: The proper care and feeding of an American messiah / Chris Hansen -- Pt. IV. The war that wasn't: It (might have) happened here: how Nazi Germany won the war / John C. Tibbetts -- Between what is and what if: Kevin Willmott's CSA / Thomas Prasch -- The "serious" mockumentary: the trivialization of disaster?: The case of Peter Watkins / James M. Welsh -- The making of It happened here / Kevin Brownlow -- Epilogue: Mockumentaries meet new media / Spencer Schaffner.