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War isn't hell, it's entertainment : essays on visual media and the representation of conflict / edited by Rikke Schubart ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media and war.
- War in mass media.
- War and society--United States.
- War and society.
- United States.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2009]
- Summary:
- "This book examines how war is used as an imaginary site to stage dramas; how boundaries between war, media, and entertainment dissolve as new media alters the formal qualities of representation; how entertainment is used to engage audiences; and what effect products of war and entertainment have on consumers of popular culture"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Rikke Schubart
- The public war body. War porn: spectacle and seduction in contemporary American war memorials / Erika Doss
- Sporting aces and the military: performance, discipline, and nationalism in the fields of honor / Fabian Virchow
- The camera at war: when soldiers become war photographers / Mette Mortensen
- Getting the story right: myth, meaning, and gendered war mythology in the case of Jessica Lynch / Rikke Schubart
- Celebrities and 9/11: "a simple show of unity" / Sue Collins
- War and entertainment. Gender management, popular culture, and the military / Tanja Thomas
- "Tell me that wasn't fun": watching the battle scenes in Master and commander with a smile on your face / Anne Gjelsvik
- Comic situations/endless war: M*A*S*H and war as entertainment / Yvonne Tasker
- Lavishing the body politic: The Manchurian candidate / Debra White-Stanley
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki: image and reality / Lawrence H. Suid
- Playing at war. The authentic illusion: twentieth century war reenactors and the ownership of history / Jenny Thompson
- Digital war games and post 9/11 geographies of militarism / Marcus Power
- The political battlefield of pro-Arab video games on Palestinian screens / Helga Tawil-Souri
- Manufacturing militainment: video game producers and military brand games / Matthew Thomas Payne
- War/games: the art of rules and strategies / Bo Kampmann Walther.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786435586
- 0786435585
- OCLC:
- 277136424
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