shockumentary
English
Etymology
Blend of shock + documentary.
Noun
shockumentary (plural shockumentaries)
- A form of documentary used to generate a reactionary effect in an audience; especially such a documentary containing scenes of violence, gore, or other disturbing imagery.
- 2000, Peter Schjeldahl, "A Theft in Norway: March 8, 1994", in Drawing Us In: How We Experience Visual Art (eds. Deborah Chasman & Edna Chiang), Beacon Press (2000), →ISBN, page 1:
- The ransom was to be propaganda: a broadcast on Norwegian television of the anti-abortion shockumentary, The Silent Scream.
- 2000, Peter Schjeldahl, "A Theft in Norway: March 8, 1994", in Drawing Us In: How We Experience Visual Art (eds. Deborah Chasman & Edna Chiang), Beacon Press (2000), →ISBN, page 1: