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

by Roger Stahl

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415999782
• ISBN13: 9780415999786
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"