Militainment, Inc. Free

Author: Roger Stahl
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0415999782

Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture

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/EM> 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 variety of channels-from news coverage to online video games to reality television. Simply put, rather than presenting war as something to be watched, th Check Militainment, Inc. our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

Militainment, Inc. Free

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