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Schlockumentary is a term referring to documentary films that use junk science or highly biased research methods intended to arrive at partisan or conspiratorial conclusions. [1]
Contents
Origins
Schlockumentary is a word that combines Yiddish schlock, or junk [2], with documentary.
Schlockumentary is a lexical change made up of larger parts (sometimes whole parts) of words, usually initial syllables of other words, sometimes the first part of one word and the last part of another, combined into a pronounceable word. [3]
Examples
- America: From Freedom to Fascism
- Fahrenheit 9/11
- Outfoxed
- Loose Change
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Sicko
- The 11th Hour
- Super Size Me
- Bowling for Columbine
References
- ↑ Michael Moore Issues Iraq Withdrawal Fatwa, By Noel Sheppard, American Thinker, December 04, 2006.
- ↑ Block That Schlock, TIME magazine, Nov. 23, 1959
- ↑ Lexical Change, Harold Schiffman, 4/8/2004
