El-Tawassol التواصل
Volume 27, Numéro 2, Pages 315-329
2021-12-25

Multimodal Discourse Analysis Of Iraq War Documentary Movie Advertisements (posters)

Authors : Ait Hamouda Hanane .

Abstract

The article addresses the issue of war in Iraq which raised the interest of many authors, politicians and filmmakers, each, tackling the war from a different standpoint. The paper seeks to investigate the specific style in which eight documentary movie posters about the war in Iraq mould people’s perceptions about the war. To fulfill this aim, Kress and Leeuwen’s (2006) framework of visual design is employed to probe the posters’ contents. The results show that each poster has displayed the reality about the war in Iraq in conformity with political standpoints and ideologies of their authors.

Keywords

Documentary Movie Posters ; Multimodal Discourse Analysis ; The Construction of Reality ; The War in Iraq.