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mockumentary

/ˌmɑkjuˈmɛn(t)əɹi/

mockumentary noun: a film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire.

Noun

mockumentary (plural mockumentaries)

  1. A film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire.
    • “This Is Spinal Tap” is one of the most famous mockumentaries.
    • Perlman devised a format inspired by the seminal mockumentary Spinal Tap, where the spot started with an ESPN announcer speaking to camera in a serious, straight voice, framing the story as “real” documentary.2010, Douglas Holt, Douglas Cameron, Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 345

mockumentary meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

mockumentary in Tamil

மாதிரி ஆவணப்படம்

mockumentary in Indonesian

programme
mokumenter

Examples of mockumentary in a sentence

  • The resonances between This is Spinal Tap and other documentary and mockumentary texts is pervasive, […]2018, Richard Wallace, Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity, Springer, →ISBN, page 87:
  • In the 2004 film A Day Without a Mexican, Sergio Arau imagines, in mockumentary style, what would happen to California if its entire Mexican-immigrant population vanished.2021 October 5, Ian Bogost, “A Day Without Facebook”, in The Atlantic:

Synonyms of mockumentary

Forms of mockumentary

pluralmockumentaries

Origin of mockumentary

Blend of mock + documentary.

Questions about mockumentary

What does mockumentary mean?
Mockumentary means a film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire.
What is mockumentary in Tamil?
Mockumentary in Tamil is மாதிரி ஆவணப்படம். See Mockumentary meaning in Tamil.
How do you use mockumentary in a sentence?
The resonances between This is Spinal Tap and other documentary and mockumentary texts is pervasive, […]
What part of speech is mockumentary?
Mockumentary is a noun.
How do you pronounce mockumentary?
Mockumentary is pronounced /ˌmɑkjuˈmɛn(t)əɹi/ (US).
What is the plural of mockumentary?
The plural of mockumentary is mockumentaries.

Words near mockumentary in the dictionary

  1. mocktail
  2. mocktails
  3. mocktini
  4. mocktinis
  5. mockumentaries
  6. mockumentary
  7. mockup
  8. mockups
  9. mockworthy
  10. mocky
  11. moclobemide

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mockumentary (page history and authors); mockumentary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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