Captive Images: The Wars in Chechnya from Tolstoy to Khashchavatski’s Prisoners of the Caucasus

The article examines the use of documentary film as a tool of political intervention that enlists the resources of broadcast journalism and literature in the representation of war. Access to images is a determining factor in the shaping of public opinion and affects citizens’ political views about t...

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Autor: Monegal Brancós, Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Chechen wars
Documentary film
Information war
Stringers
Broadcast news
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spelling Captive Images: The Wars in Chechnya from Tolstoy to Khashchavatski’s Prisoners of the CaucasusMonegal Brancós, AntonioChechen warsDocumentary filmInformation warStringersBroadcast newsThe article examines the use of documentary film as a tool of political intervention that enlists the resources of broadcast journalism and literature in the representation of war. Access to images is a determining factor in the shaping of public opinion and affects citizens’ political views about the waging of war. The private files of four freelance cameramen who provide footage for news agencies and television networks and covered the wars in Chechnya are the main sources for Yuri Khashchavatski’s documentary Prisoners of the Caucasus (2002). The film traces a connection between this contemporary representation of the war in the Caucasus and Tolstoy’s nineteenth-century narratives and denounces both how the war was conducted and the invisibility in the media of the suffering of civilian victims and regular soldiers. Connecting the stringers’ files to an earlier literary tradition is a way of claiming the political dimension of memory, a political exercise at the crossroads between the media and the arts.Taylor & Francis202520252020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/69154http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2020.1830582reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésJournal of War & Culture Studies. 2020;16(3):253–69.© This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of war & culture studies on 21 Oct 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17526272.2020.1830582info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/691542026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Captive Images: The Wars in Chechnya from Tolstoy to Khashchavatski’s Prisoners of the Caucasus
spellingShingle Captive Images: The Wars in Chechnya from Tolstoy to Khashchavatski’s Prisoners of the Caucasus
Monegal Brancós, Antonio
Chechen wars
Documentary film
Information war
Stringers
Broadcast news
title_short Captive Images: The Wars in Chechnya from Tolstoy to Khashchavatski’s Prisoners of the Caucasus
title_full Captive Images: The Wars in Chechnya from Tolstoy to Khashchavatski’s Prisoners of the Caucasus
title_fullStr Captive Images: The Wars in Chechnya from Tolstoy to Khashchavatski’s Prisoners of the Caucasus
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title_sort Captive Images: The Wars in Chechnya from Tolstoy to Khashchavatski’s Prisoners of the Caucasus
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Monegal Brancós, Antonio
author Monegal Brancós, Antonio
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Documentary film
Information war
Stringers
Broadcast news
topic Chechen wars
Documentary film
Information war
Stringers
Broadcast news
description The article examines the use of documentary film as a tool of political intervention that enlists the resources of broadcast journalism and literature in the representation of war. Access to images is a determining factor in the shaping of public opinion and affects citizens’ political views about the waging of war. The private files of four freelance cameramen who provide footage for news agencies and television networks and covered the wars in Chechnya are the main sources for Yuri Khashchavatski’s documentary Prisoners of the Caucasus (2002). The film traces a connection between this contemporary representation of the war in the Caucasus and Tolstoy’s nineteenth-century narratives and denounces both how the war was conducted and the invisibility in the media of the suffering of civilian victims and regular soldiers. Connecting the stringers’ files to an earlier literary tradition is a way of claiming the political dimension of memory, a political exercise at the crossroads between the media and the arts.
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