War isn't hell, it's entertainment
Subtitle: essays on visual media and the representation of conflict
By: edited by Rikke Schubart ... [et al.].
Contributors: Schubart, Rikke.
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780786435586
Subjects: Mass media and war; War in mass media; War and society -- United States; Popular culture -- United States
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Rikke Schubart; title: The public war body. War porn: spectacle and seduction in contemporary American war memorials / Erika Doss; title: Sporting aces and the military: performance, discipline, and nationalism in the fields of honor / Fabian Virchow; title: The camera at war: when soldiers become war photographers / Mette Mortensen; title: Getting the story right: myth, meaning, and gendered war mythology in the case of Jessica Lynch / Rikke Schubart; title: Celebrities and 9/11: "a simple show of unity" / Sue Collins; title: War and entertainment. Gender management, popular culture, and the military / Tanja Thomas; title: "Tell me that wasn't fun": watching the battle scenes in master and commander with a smile on your face / Anne Gjelsvik; title: Comic situations/endless war: M*A*S*H and war as entertainment / Yvonne Tasker; title: Lavishing the body politic: The Manchurian candidate / Debra White-Stanley; title: Hiroshima and Nagasaki: image and reality / Lawrence H. Suid; title: Playing at war. The authentic illusion: twentieth century war reenactors and the ownership of history / Jenny Thompson; title: Digital war games and post 9/11 geographies of militarism / Marcus Power; title: The political battlefield of pro-Arab video games on Palestinian screens / Helga Tawil-Souri; title: Manufacturing militainment: video game producers and military brand games / Matthew Thomas Payne; title: War/games: the art of rules and strategies / Bo Kampmann Walther.