When this pseudo-authenticity is adopted as an identity, it is ripe for the mocking, and Baumbach does this with precision.
Perpetuation of such regular parties requires a kind of pseudo-authenticity to assure everyone who's watching, and maybe even more so, everyone in attendance, of the legitimacy of the entire enterprise.
This is pseudo-authenticity.
The longing for authenticity teased by pseudo-authenticity of having touched the sky, but never to be satisfied until you have learned to fly.
And so she preceded, with an almost surreal disregard for the subjects she was supposed to be discussing, to unleash fusillades of scripted attack lines, platitudes, lies, gibberish and grating references to her own pseudo-folksy authenticity.
Until now the style -- with its jerky cinéma vérité rhythms and unvarnished visual texture, which evoke a pseudo-documentary authenticity -- seemed best suited to a bitter confrontational satire like Thomas Vinterberg's "Celebration".
First, there is the urgent handheld camerawork, a directorial trademark refined and perfected by cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, which lends an air of pseudo-documentary authenticity to carefully staged reconstructions, putting us right there in the huddle of the action.
Among the defining conventions of the genre are spare, relatively inexpressive or inarticulate dialogue, the absence of inner life and fantasy, and camerawork that stays so close to its characters as to avoid contemplative detachment and that, usually hand-held, suggests a pseudo-journalistic authenticity.
Only the Magdeburg Centuriators, authors of the Centuries, a 16th-century Lutheran church history, denied the genuineness of all the decretals of pseudo-Isidore; the lack of authenticity of the other three works was discovered later.
Although there are indications that some ancient scholars had doubts about the authenticity of the pseudo-Pythagorean texts, for the most part they succeeded in their purpose all too well and were accepted as genuine texts on which Plato and Aristotle drew.
B2 of Archytas speak for its authenticity, but its similarities, sometimes word for word, to pseudo-Pythagorean treatises by "Diotogenes" (Thesleff 76.2 3, 71. 21–2), "Damippos" (Thesleff 68.26) and "Metopos" (Thesleff 119.28) argue for its spuriousness.
