Enemy Image (2005)

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The belief that press coverage of the Vietnam War may have lost that war for the America has meant that journalists have had limited coverage to subsequent conflicts in Grenada, Panama, Kuwait and Afghanistan. In an apparent reversal of policy, during the 800 hours of the Iraq War 20,000 hours of video were shot. But reporting was tightly controlled by the Pentagon and the images that found their way into living rooms provided only a sanitised version of the conflict.
Enemy Image traces the ways US television has covered war, starting with Vietnam in the 1960s and shows how the military has devised ever-improving means of ensuring the American public never again has the real face of combat beamed directly into their living rooms. Comparing footage of Vietnam, including rarely-seen material shot in North Vietnam, to coverage of Iraq and using extensive interviews with veteran war correspondents and news anchors, Mark Daniels demonstrates how television that once revealed the truth is now increasingly used to hide it.
Mark Daniels has been a filmmaker and cinematographer since 1978. Among films he has directed is Classified X which deals with racial stereotypes in American cinema; it was 1998 Sundance Film Festival selection and won Best Documentary at the Human Rights Watch Festival. He was director of photography on Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann, nominated for an Academy Award in 1992, and Nomi Song, a prizewinner at the Berlin Film Festival in 2004. He took two years to research Enemy Image.
Professor Martin Halliwell, Director of the Centre for American Studies at the University of Leicester commented:
"Political films are very much on the rise at the moment with multiplex movies such as Steven Spielberg's Munich and Stephen Gaghan's Syriana dealing with the legacy of global terrorism. One reason for this repoliticization of film is due to the success of documentary filmmakers exploring the role of the media in the contemporary world: from Fahrenheit 9/11 to Outfoxed to Control Room. Mark Daniels's Enemy Image is one of the most powerful political documentaries of recent years, which not only exposes the limitations of TV war coverage during the Bush era, but the power-broking that goes on behind the scenes to control images and stories."

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