Znaczenie namiotu w życiu mieszkańców Górnej Austrii, czyli mockdokumentalne „Święto kurczaka”
The Importance of a Tent In the Life of The Inhabitants of Upper Austria, or the Mock-Documentary “Chicken Festival”

Summary/Abstract: The author points to the mock-documental potential of travel films and evokes examples of manipulation, staging and “pressing” reality into shape in this type of films. She analyses in this context the Austrian mock document by Walter Wippersberg entitled “Chicken Festival” (“Das Fest des Huhnes”, 1992), which is a parody of travel films of an anthropological nature and a satire on Austrians and their culture and behaviour of white people in general in their relations with “strangers”. The author follows, among others, the ways of evoking humour in the “Chicken Festival” and the process of creating in the mock-document a non-existent celebration, associated with a non-existent cult, out of elements of reality.

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