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1 online resource (1 video file, 124 min.) |
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two-dimensional moving image rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Performer |
Narrator, Roger Stahl. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2007. |
| 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. |
| Audience |
Grade 9+ |
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Higher education. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Government and the press -- United States.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Mass media and the war.
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Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Popular culture.
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Press and politics -- United States.
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Press and politics.
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War -- Press coverage -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Stahl, Roger.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| In: |
Media Education Foundation Collection njcore00000000080 |
| Music No. |
1041558 Kanopy |
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