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The unwar film

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posted on 2023-06-08, 18:36 authored by Alisa LebowAlisa Lebow
While the pro- and anti-war documentaries remain locked in a tense stand-off, the one priming the pump for any given war effort, the other taking the cinematic counter-offensive, two further forms have emerged: what I call the “para-militarist” war documentary and the “unwar” documentary. This essay explores these two modes, the former whic comprises the latest addition to the militarist tradition, and the latter, which poses a laudable antidote to this trend. The “unwar” documentary, it is argued, works to undo very logic that subtends the war documentary, paramilitarist or otherwise, which operates within a direct sphere of “engagement” with militarism, never entirely outside of its bellicose imperatives.

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  • Published

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John Wiley & Sons

Book title

A companion to contemporary documentary film

Place of publication

Hoboken, New Jersey

ISBN

9780470671641

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  • Media and Film Publications

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  • Yes

Editors

Alexandra Juhasz, Alisa Lebow

Legacy Posted Date

2014-10-06

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