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MOCKING THE PEOPLE: POPULIST AESTHETICS AND THE POLITICS OF SATIRE IN CONTEMPORARY MOCKUMENTARY

Mihaela Florentina Constantinescu

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This article examines how contemporary mockumentaries critique populist discourse by appropriating and subverting documentary aesthetics. Through comparative analysis of Róbert Lakatos’s Whose Dog Am I? and Netflix’s Death to 2020 and Death to 2021, it traces how strategies of satire, irony, and staged authenticity expose the emotional and visual grammars of nationalism and post-truth politics. Combining discourse theory with close formal analysis, the study argues that mockumentary’s reflexive play with evidence and performance unsettles claims to immediacy and “common sense” central to populism, inviting active, skeptical spectatorship across distinct cultural and industrial contexts.

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Decorative arts History of the arts Visual arts

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Mihaela Florentina Constantinescu

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Constantinescu, M.F. (2025). MOCKING THE PEOPLE: POPULIST AESTHETICS AND THE POLITICS OF SATIRE IN CONTEMPORARY MOCKUMENTARY. https://doi.org/10.54989/JAS.24.07

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Tahun Terbit: 2025
Sumber Database: DOAJ
DOI: 10.54989/JAS.24.07
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