![]() "The immediacy and flow of the motion picture succeeds when it carries us with it, toward some meaning which is inextricable from the sequence of the flow, but which also distorts the meaning of the individual frame (the basis of the still): the still, however, distorts the meaning of the editor (who is the historian of filmic evidence). Cumings maintains that still photographs tend to challenge the viewer more than film. In trying to deconstruct what television is and how it acts, a crucial step is to differentiate between still photographs and moving film. In his book War and Television, Cumings explores not only the politicing behind making the documentary, but what television's meaning and role is in articulating war to a larger audience. Cumings own ideas about the war, whose complex history and ramifications are still largely a mystery to experts as well as the general public, was more liberal and sympathetic towards North Korea than television producers would have liked. Instead, he found that questions about the war's interpretation were only barely buried beneath the surface. ![]() When Bruce Cumings began work on a documentary about the Korean War called Korea: The Unknown War, he assumed enough time had passed, almost fifty years, to view the war with a dispassionate eye. War and Television War and Television by Bruce Cummings
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