We're used to seeing modern history telescoped through a montage. A ticker-tape strewn trading floor in grainy black & white, followed by shots of silent factories, and then, bread-lines; stand in for the First Great Depression. The World Wars, the Cold War, treated the same way. A few short clips spliced together and all the ambiguity, all the boredom, and long tense months or years of indecision are smoothed out. The First Gulf War was the first time this packaging was attempted in real time. The result was what
A Politics of Profound Disillusionment
A Politics of Profound Disillusionment
A Politics of Profound Disillusionment
We're used to seeing modern history telescoped through a montage. A ticker-tape strewn trading floor in grainy black & white, followed by shots of silent factories, and then, bread-lines; stand in for the First Great Depression. The World Wars, the Cold War, treated the same way. A few short clips spliced together and all the ambiguity, all the boredom, and long tense months or years of indecision are smoothed out. The First Gulf War was the first time this packaging was attempted in real time. The result was what