Militainment, Inc : militarism and pop culture

Resource Information

The work Militainment, Inc : militarism and pop culture represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Militainment, Inc : militarism and pop culture

Title remainder

militarism and pop culture

Contributor

• Kanopy (Firm)
• Stahl, Roger

Subject

• Government and the press -- United States
• trueIraq War, 2003-2011 -- Mass media and the war
• trueMass media -- Political aspects -- United States
• truePopular culture
• truePopular culture -- Political aspects -- United States
• truePress and politics
• truePress and politics -- United States
• War -- Press coverage -- United States

Language

• eng
• eng

Summary

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

Is part of

• Media Education Foundation Collection

Cataloging source

MaNoMEF

Characteristic

videorecording

Date time place

Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2007

Intended audience

• Grade 9+
• Higher education

PerformerNote

Narrator, Roger Stahl

Runtime

124

Technique

live action