Your Country, My Country: How Films About the Iraq War Construct Publics
Framework 48:2 (Fall 2007), pp. 56-65.
10 Pages Posted: 13 Apr 2016
Date Written: March 2, 2007
Abstract
Iraq documentaries filled gaps in mainstream media coverage of Iraq, to provide explanations of why the war occurred, to chronicle combat, and to provide a glimpse of daily life of Iraqis. Some have been designed to enlighten and inform, others to mobilize. They are not only movies about the Iraq war, but they are part of a process of constituting a public around the issues of the Iraq war. Here, three approaches are addressed: essays about the legitimacy and logic of the war; films about soldiers’ experiences; and films about the Iraqi experience of war.
Keywords: documentary, film, public media, publics, public, war, Iraq, advocacy
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