Militainment, Inc : militarism and pop culture
2014
Computer Files, Websites
Militainment, Inc. offers a fascinating, disturbing, and timely glimpse into the militarization of American popular culture, examining how U.S. news coverage has come to resemble Hollywood film, video games, and "reality television" in its glamorization of war. Mobilizing an astonishing range of media examples - from news anchors' idolatry of military machinery to the impact of government propaganda on war reporting - the film asks: How has war taken its place in the culture as an entertainment spectacle? And how does presenting war as entertainment affect the ability of citizens to evaluate the necessity and real human costs of military action? The film is broken down into nine sections, each between 10 and 20 minutes in length, allowing for in-depth classroom analysis of individual elements of this wide-ranging phenomenon.
Main title:
Militainment, Inc : militarism and pop culture / written, produced, and narrated by Roger Stahl.
Author:
Imprint:
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
Source:
Media Education Foundation Collection
Collation:
1 online resource (1 video file, 124 min.)
Notes:
Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2007.
Performers:
Narrator, Roger Stahl.
Audience:
Grade 9+Higher education.
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
Subject:
Government and the press -- United StatesIraq War, 2003-2011 -- Mass media and the warMass media -- Political aspects -- United StatesPopular culture -- Political aspects -- United StatesPopular culturePress and politics -- United StatesPress and politicsWar -- Press coverage -- United StatesDocumentary films
BRN:
407648
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/41559/external-image - Cover Image