McMullin, Jaremey R. and Pauls, Evelyn (2024) Audio-visual media: documentary filmmaking. In: Connaughton, Stacey L. and Pukallus, Stefanie, (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication. Routledge Handbooks in Communication Studies. Routledge, New York, NY, 301 - 310. ISBN 9781032490489
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Documentary filmmaking has long been recognized as a powerful tool of conflict and peacebuilding communication. The communicative value of documentary film is narrative and participatory, portraying peacebuilding as an unfinished, ongoing, and laborious task. We explore these contributions through our own documentary film work and through scholarship and documentary filmmaking within International Relations and peace studies. Foregrounding narration of conflict and peace actors’ experiences, documentary film can tell stories about war and peace that challenge hegemonic and linear narratives of conflict and its aftermath. Documentary films have juxtaposed direct testimony and narration of conflict-affected actors (such as young people, women, former fighters, displaced persons, and victims of war) with more militaristic and nationalist accounts of conflict and peace. They can raise powerful questions about audience and impact, bring stories of war and peace to a wider audience, and facilitate dialogue and understanding between conflicting parties.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | © 2025 selection and editorial matter, the editors; individual chapters, the contributors |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Date Deposited: | 09 May 2025 20:21 |
| Last Modified: | 09 May 2025 20:21 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/128099 |
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