모크 다큐멘터리는 패러디인가

• 영문명: Is Mock Documentary a Parody?
• 발행기관: 한국영화학회
• 저자명: 문원립
• 간행물 정보: 『영화연구』제48호, 185~206쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 예술체육 > 예술일반
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2011.06.30

영문 초록

Jane Roscoe and Craig Hight, in their seminal work Faking it: Mock Documentary and the subversion of factuality, regard mock documentary essentially as a parody. It must be, considering their central use of the word “mock”. But, the author argues, if mock documentaries are understood as “fictional texts which in some form look like documentaries”, they are not all parodies, at least not in the ordinary sense of the term. Mock documentaries are supposed to use the “code and conventions” of documentaries, but the problem is that, as an author says, “no particular formal or thematic features exist that are the sole province of either 'documentary' or 'fiction'”. Using the techniques like hand-held shots, interviews, narrations, etc. (so-called “conventions” of documentary) are not enough, and perhaps not even required, for a film to look like a documentary. What is essential in mock documentaries, in the author's view, is that the pro-filmic event does not look like directed, that is, staged. If we think of mock documentaries as films that imitate documentaries, it might seem obvious that they are parodies. But if we think of them instead as films that look un-staged, we can see that they are not by themselves parodies. A film can look un-staged (like a documentary), but one cannot parody an un-staged film (a documentary).

목차

1. 들어가며

2. 로스코와 하이트의 모크 다큐멘터리 이론

3. 모크 다큐멘터리는 패러디가 아니다

4. ‘관습’의 의미

5. 모크 다큐멘터리의 본질

6. 마치며

키워드

mock documentary documentary-style film parody