{"product_id":"the-iraq-war-in-documentary-film","title":"The Iraq War in Documentary Film","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first comprehensive study of documentary film on the Iraq War. In a series of close readings of some thirty American and European works, it analyzes how documentaries on the run-up, unfolding, and aftermath of the war have adopted different points of view and aesthetics in order to address their publics. From the political essay (\u003ci\u003eFahrenheit 9\/11\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhy We Fight\u003c\/i\u003e) to embedding within the ‘grunt point-of-view’ (\u003ci\u003eGunner Palace\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe War Tapes\u003c\/i\u003e), from anti-war activism in the form of \u003ci\u003ecinéma vérité\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eArlington West\u003c\/i\u003e) to one-on-one confessional interviews with veterans (\u003ci\u003eThe Ground Truth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAlive Day Memories\u003c\/i\u003e), these films challenge our pre-conceptions of the documentary form. As diverse as the films studied here may be in their political perspective and forms of address, and as hybrid a genre as the early 21st century documentary may seem, all of these works focus on the stories that were \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e being reported by the mainstream media as they unfolded, and reassert documentary’s claim to telling and showing the truth about real-world events against a backdrop of other, more dominant narratives about war – in particular, official political discourse, TV news reporting and Hollywood war film. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503652479349,"sku":"9781138951624","price":105.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/the-iraq-war-in-documentary-film","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}