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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. Written, produced & narrated by Roger Stahl Based on his forthcoming book by the same title. Roger
Stahl is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at the University
of Georgia. His work has appeared in publications such as Rhetoric and
Public Affairs, Encyclopedia of Political Communication, and Critical
Studies in Media Communication.
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