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Expanded Mockuworlds. Mockumentary as a Transmedial Narrative Style


Author: Cristina Formenti
[published in: IMAGE 21 Themenheft (Januar 2015)]


Customarily, mockumentary tends to be discussed merely as a filmic and televisual form. Yet, on closer inspection, it proves to be a narrative style that not only can easily be employed in a variety of different medial contexts but is also suitable for delivering a single story across various platforms. In particular, the article seeks to demonstrate that it is not infrequent for the storyworld of a filmic or televisual mockumentary to be extended on one or more media through para¬texts that are in themselves self-contained mockumentaries, thus giving life to out-and-out expanded mockuworlds.


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