Covering everything from chess to football, from Saving Private Ryan to American Sniper, and from Call of Duty to drone interfaces, War Games is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the militarization of American culture, offering a compact yet comprehensive look at how we play with images of war.
Covering everything from chess to football, from Saving Private Ryan to American Sniper, and from Call of Duty to drone interfaces, War Games is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the militarization of American culture, offering a compact yet comprehensive look at how we play with images of war.
JONNA EAGLE is an associate professor of film and media in the department of American studies at the University of Hawai‘i at M¿noa. She is the author of Imperial Affects: Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2017).
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Contents Introduction 1. Live Tabletop Games¿ Gaming in Miniature Combat and Contact Sports Military Maneuvers Recreational Reenactments 2. On Screen Authentic Violence and the World War Two Combat Reports Saving Private Ryan and the Reenactment of the Real Vietnam on Big Screens and Small Somatic War in the Twenty-First Century 3. Interactive Flight Simulation and the Technologies of Preemption The Military-Entertainment Complex First-Person Shooters Realism in Videogames Back to the Battleground Acknowledgements Further Reading Works Cited Index
Contents Introduction 1. Live Tabletop Games¿ Gaming in Miniature Combat and Contact Sports Military Maneuvers Recreational Reenactments 2. On Screen Authentic Violence and the World War Two Combat Reports Saving Private Ryan and the Reenactment of the Real Vietnam on Big Screens and Small Somatic War in the Twenty-First Century 3. Interactive Flight Simulation and the Technologies of Preemption The Military-Entertainment Complex First-Person Shooters Realism in Videogames Back to the Battleground Acknowledgements Further Reading Works Cited Index
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