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Chapter 3 distills the documentary war film, which, on the one hand, attempts to deconstruct the perils of war, and on the other, still manages to reinscribe the tropes of brotherhood, bravery, and masculinity. As a genre, documentaries about war are often problematic because they straddle the fine line of revealing truth through photographic evidence and manipulating those same photographic images to espouse a myopic, political position.
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Greenbaum, A. (2015). The War Documentary: Restrepo and the Synecdoche of Masculinity. In: The Tropes of War: Visual Hyperbole and Spectacular Culture. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137550774_4
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