Mockumentary

MOCKUMENTARY

Pretends to be rooted in actuality or memory, behaves like documentary or autobiography, but is utter fiction. It subverts fact-based filmmaking to satirise hypocritical institutions; the Catholic Church in Roma; middle-class mores in Zelig; TV journalism in Man Bites Dog and The Truman Show; politics in Bob Roberts; crass American values in To Die For.