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008    090116t20092009ncua     b    001 0 eng  
010      2009001465
020    9780786435586 |qsoftcover |qalkaline paper
020    0786435585 |qsoftcover |qalkaline paper
035    (OCoLC)ocn277136424
035    149906
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049    LHMA
040    DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dC#P |dBWX |dCDX |dUKM |dLHM
050 00 P96.W35 |bW375 2009
245 00 War isn't hell, it's entertainment : |bessays on visual media and the representation of conflict / |cedited by Rikke Schubart ... [and others].
264  1 Jefferson, N.C. : |bMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, |c[2009]
264  4  |c©2009
300    vi, 283 pages : |billustrations ; |c23 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
520    "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.
504    Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0  Introduction / Rikke Schubart -- The public war body. War porn: spectacle and seduction in contemporary American war memorials / Erika Doss -- Sporting aces and the military: performance, discipline, and nationalism in the fields of honor / Fabian Virchow -- The camera at war: when soldiers become war photographers / Mette Mortensen -- Getting the story right: myth, meaning, and gendered war mythology in the case of Jessica Lynch / Rikke Schubart -- Celebrities and 9/11: "a simple show of unity" / Sue Collins -- War and entertainment. Gender management, popular culture, and the military / Tanja Thomas -- "Tell me that wasn't fun": watching the battle scenes in master and commander with a smile on your face / Anne Gjelsvik -- Comic situations/endless war: M*A*S*H and war as entertainment / Yvonne Tasker -- Lavishing the body politic: The Manchurian candidate / Debra White-Stanley -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki: image and reality / Lawrence H. Suid -- Playing at war. The authentic illusion: twentieth century war reenactors and the ownership of history / Jenny Thompson -- Digital war games and post 9/11 geographies of militarism / Marcus Power -- The political battlefield of pro-Arab video games on Palestinian screens / Helga Tawil-Souri -- Manufacturing militainment: video game producers and military brand games / Matthew Thomas Payne -- War/games: the art of rules and strategies / Bo Kampmann Walther.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Mass media and war.
650  0 War in mass media.
650  0 War and society |zUnited States.
650  0 Popular culture |zUnited States.
700 1  Schubart, Rikke.
852 0   |bstacks |hP96.W35 |iW375 2009