Keywords

• This essay focuses on those cinematic and television texts
• know as the mockumentary
• that calls into question the traditional fact/fiction dichotomy by telling fictional stories through the adoption of documentary aesthetics.
• Although considered mainly as a genre
• the corpus of films and television programmes that goes under the name of â€
• œ
• mockumentaryâ€
• 
• presents only two superficial common features: The appearance of a documentary and the presence of clues to the fictional nature of these texts. The essay tries to consider this as a style.
• In particular it's an innovative
• narrative style
• since the mid-Sixties
• when it was first used cinematically by Peter Watkins
• has become increasingly more popular among directors because of its capability to respond to a nowadays need of «true» stories