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



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Autore: Stahl Roger Visualizza persona
Titolo: Militainment, Inc. : war, media, and popular culture / / Roger Stahl Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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
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