War Isn't Hell, it's Entertainment
Essays on Visual Media and the Representation of Conflict
Real war is a cruel theater of death, yet it is also an exciting narrative exploited for national, political and commercial purposes and turned into numerous films, television shows, computer games, news stories and reenactment plays. This book examines the relationship between war, visual media and entertainment from a number of academic perspectives such as film studies, cultural studies, new media studies, sociology and history. Key topics of the essays include: 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…
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Weitere Autoren: Virchow, Fabian (Hrsg.) / White-Stanley, Debra (Hrsg.) / Thomas, Tanja (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7864-3558-6
- EAN: 9780786435586
- Produktnummer: 20653707
- Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 290 S.
- Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.1 cm 402 g
- Abbildungen: 8 photographs
- Gewicht: 402
- Sonstiges: Further/Higher Education
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