Jonathan Rosenbaum

It seems like This guy was just getting a little too defensive, and wanted to make sure that some of his favorite movies got taken seriously. Somethings are dubbed somethingbecause that's the easiest way to describe them. Whether one wants to call it a pseudo documentary, a re enactment, or an emulation or imitation of something that once occured, it is going to called a mockumnetary (especially by people outside of the extremely intelligent film theory circle). Rosenbaum was primarily criticising scholars for using the term, but they have every right. Part of the reason that mockumentary stuck is because some of the most successful fake documentaries were these funny films that were dubbed mockumnetaries. Punishment park is by no means a funny movie, if anything it is more of hypothetical re enactment of what happens who countires turn into fascist states. BUt that is a long winded description, and the truth of the matter is someone could just as easily say its a dark mockumentary. Unfortunately this a debate that has the natuarl progression of a circle, but Rosenbaum (not yet at least) to be quoting wikipedia in a scholarly paper/article