Invisible war: broadcast television documentary and Iraq

Harris, Janet 2017. Invisible war: broadcast television documentary and Iraq. Hellmich, Christina and Purse, Lisa, eds. Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on cinema and erasure in the post-9/11 world, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 149-169.

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Abstract

Christopher Booker writes: ‘Even today few people in Britain realise the extent to which our intervention in south-eastern Iraq was an abject failure’ (North 2009: 1). The dominant narrative of the British military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in broadcast television media has been one of emotion, of valiant fighters and of underfunded victims betrayed by politicians, but also of a military strategy, purpose and consequences that are rarely questioned. The media constructs war in a narrow and specific way that leads to an assumption that there is only one way to look at war. Aspects such as the rational analysis of war, the causes of war, and most importantly, the political nature of war disappear.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:	9781474416566
Last Modified:	08 Oct 2024 10:23
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/98485

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