Documentary film has become an important tool to seek information. This study shows how documentaries are projecting skepticism and sarcasm of Iraqi people due to volatile, uncertain complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) conditions. The fims discussed in this study consists of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated documentary films from 2003 to 2011 with a total of 45 films. The year 2003 is selected for its demarcation of U.S.-led invasion of Iraq which started in March 2003 and toppled over the government of Saddam Hussein. The year 2011 denotes the end with the departure of US troops in 2011. Through the criterion sampling, four films are selected that depict Iraq and all the four got the nomination for Oscar that includes: Iraq in Fragments (2006-Nomination); My Country My Country (2006-N); No End in Sight (2007-N); Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (2007-N). To explore Iraqi people’s perspectives, further sampling is applied and two documentaries are selected depicting entanglement of religion and politics in Iraq from Iraqi people’s perspective.

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新兴话语，改变视角：奥斯卡纪录片中的伊拉克

纪录片已经成为获取信息的重要工具。这项研究表明，由于不稳定、不确定的复杂和模棱两可 (VUCA) 条件，纪录片如何投射对伊拉克人民的怀疑和讽刺。本研究中讨论的电影包括 2003 年至 2011 年获得奥斯卡奖和奥斯卡提名的纪录片，共计 45 部电影。2003 年被选为划定美国领导的入侵伊拉克的年份，该入侵始于 2003 年 3 月，并推翻了萨达姆·侯赛因政府。2011年标志着2011年美军撤离的结束。通过标准抽样，选出四部描写伊拉克的影片，四部均获得奥斯卡提名，其中包括：《伊拉克的碎片》（2006年-提名）；我的祖国我的祖国（2006-N）；看不到尽头（2007-N）；返校行动：编写战时体验（2007-N）。为探究伊拉克人民的视角，进一步抽样选取了两部纪录片，从伊拉克人民的角度描绘了伊拉克宗教与政治的纠葛。