Militainment, Inc. – Militarism and Pop Culture

Run time: 09:14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h2Qc5Z3agI   Posted on YouTube: February 20, 2011 By YouTube Member: CriticalEye21 Views on YouTube: 39   Posted on DU: February 20, 2011 By DU Member: Charleston Chew Views on DU: 469

 
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.

http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=135



__________
Militainment, Inc. – Militarism and Pop Culture

feature length

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2373519247173568764#