The Iraq War in Documentary Film (Hardcover)

Introduction 1. Contemporary Radical Documentary: Generic Issues, the Social Role of Documentary, New Hybridized Forms and the Digital Turn  2. Fahrenheit 9/11: Documentary as a Political Weapon  3. Documentary Versus the Mass Media: Denouncing Disinformation and Turning Back the Rhetoric of Militainment Against Itself: Weapons of Mass Deception, War Made Easy, Militainment, Inc and Operation Hollywood  4. Documentary, Empire, and War profiteering: Why We Fight and Iraq For Sale  5. Documentary and the Embedded ‘Grunt POV’ Versus Representations of Iraqi Trauma: The Ironies of Gunner Palace and Occupation: Dreamland and the Iraqi POV in The Prisoner and Other Films  6. Documentary and Conflicting Authorial Voices: The ‘Virtual Embed’ of The War Tapes  7. Documentary and Anti-War Activism: From the Performance of Protest to Confessional Address: Arlington West, Breaking Ranks, Not in Our Name, The Ground Truth  8. War Documentary and Grievous Bodily Harm: Between ‘Body Politic’ and Taboo Anti-War Spectacle: Body of War, Baghdad E.R., Alive Day Memories  9. The Torture Documentaries: Exposing the Dark Side of War: Taxi to the Dark Side, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Standard Operating Procedure  Conclusion