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False document
A <b>false document</b> is a [[literary technique]] that 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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* <i>[[Boggs]]</i> by [[Lawrence Weschler]]
* <i>[[Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder]]</i> by Lawrence Weschler
* <i>[[Simulacra and Simulation]]</i> by Baudrillard

== Hoaxes (are they art or not?) ==
* "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" <br>by Alan Sokal, Spring/Summer 1996 issue of <i>Social Text</i>). See [[Sokal Affair]]
* "
[[Thiotimoline|The endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline]]", [[Isaac Asimov]].
* [[Ova Prima]]
* [[Salamander letter]]
* [[Journal of Irreproducible Results]]
* The [[Hitler Diaries]]

== False documents in politics ==
* [[Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]
* [[Zinoviev Letter]]

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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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