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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stahl, Roger, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and war--United States.

Mass media and war.

War in mass media.

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

War and society--United States.

War and society.

Militarism--Social aspects--United States.

Militarism.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

United States.

United States--Social life and customs--1971-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-83749-X

1-135-83750-3

1-282-44342-9

9786612443428

0-203-87960-0

9780203879603

OCLC:

506454281