Militainment, Inc. : war, media, and popular culture / / Roger Stahl

• Autore: Stahl Roger
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Disciplina: 070.4493; 070.449355020973
• Soggetto topico: Mass media and war - United States; War in mass media; Popular culture - United States; War and society - United States; Militarism - Social aspects - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Social conditions 1980-2020; United States Social life and customs 1971-
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 range of historical and contemporary media examples to demonstrate the ways that war now invites audiences to enter the spectacle as an interactive participant through a vari
• Titolo autorizzato: Militainment, Inc
• ISBN: 1-135-83749-X; 1-135-83750-3; 1-282-44342-9; 9786612443428; 0-203-87960-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780809203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II