Word: partisans
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...fair share of unadulterated and unflinching mockery, the one figure that is curiously and notably absent is the man himself: George W. Bush. At first glance, one might say that the South Park boys decided to leave Dubya out of this in order to make their work as non-partisan as possible and separate it from what is rapidly becoming a faceless mass of Bush-bashing films. Although this may indeed be the case, the simple fact is that you don’t need an overt representation of Bush in this movie; Team America—with their shoot...
...Robert Greenwald’s Uncovered: The War on Iraq, and George Butler’s Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry have all thrown their support firmly behind one of the two major candidates in the upcoming presidential election. Political documentary filmmaking bears increasing resemblance to partisan advertising...
...supply of presidential documentaries truly has eclipsed demand, Sinclair Broadcasting Group may be sacrificing financial health for partisan gain by airing Stolen Honor: The Wounds that Never Heal on up to 62 of its networks in swing states. The film, which enthusiastically picks up where the anti-Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth left off, criticizes the Senator’s anti-Vietnam activism and alleges that it jeopardized the safety of American troops in captivity...
...people who screen films seem to be joining the filmmakers in brazen partisan advocacy. The past few months have made one point unmistakably clear: America has certainly strayed far from the subgenre of political cinéma vérit?...
...very early hours of Monday morning, I was not supposed to write this sentence. A few minutes before, my roommate, Barrett B. Jackson ’06, had loudly called off our public experiment in political discourse, not to mention our private attempt at maintaining a close friendship despite partisan difference...