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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, allo wing for in-depth
classroom analysis of individual elements of this wide-ranging
phenomenon. |
