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False document
A <b>false document</b> is a [[literary technique]] whichthat attempts to create in the reader (viewer, audience, etc) a sense of authenticity beyond the normal and expected [[suspension of disbelief]]. That is, it wants to fool the audience briefly into thinking that what is being presented is actually a fact.  This not to be confused with a [[mockumentary]], an admittedly fictional film done in the manner of a documentary.

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==Sources: or, False Documents as a field of study==

False documents were recently the topic of a graduate level seminar in the humanities at the [[University of Michigan]]. The seminar was taught by Professor Eileen Pollack. While the form has existed for at least two  hundred years, focused study is fairly recent.
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See: [[literature]], [[literary technique]], [[falsification]], [[frame tale]], [[conspiracy theory]], [[urban legend]], [[fictional guidebook]]
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