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UNINA9910812285403321 |
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Autore |
Stahl Roger |
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Titolo |
Militainment, Inc. : war, media, and popular culture / / Roger Stahl |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-83749-X |
1-135-83750-3 |
1-282-44342-9 |
9786612443428 |
0-203-87960-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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070.4493 |
070.449355020973 |
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Soggetti |
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Mass media and war - United States |
War in mass media |
Popular culture - United States |
War and society - United States |
Militarism - Social aspects - United States |
United States Social conditions 1980-2020 |
United States Social life and customs 1971- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Step Right Up!; Chapter 1: All-Consuming War: From Spectacle to Interactivity; Chapter 2: Sports and the Militarized Body Politic; Chapter 3: Reality War; Chapter 4: War Games; Chapter 5: Toying with Militainment; Chapter 6: Debriefing: Previews to Postviews; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Militainment, Inc. offers provocative, sometimes disturbing insight into the ways that war is presented and viewed as entertainment-or ""militainment""-in contemporary American popular culture. War has been the subject of entertainment for centuries, but Roger Stahl argues that a new interactive mode of militarized entertainment is recruiting its audience as virtual-citizen soldiers. The author examines a wide |
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