The Military-Entertainment Complex

by Timothy Lenoir and Luke Caldwell

With the rise of drones and computer-controlled weapons, the line between war and video games continues to blur. In this book, the authors trace how the realities of war are deeply inflected by their representation in popular entertainment. War games and other media, in turn, feature an increasing number of weapons, tactics, and threat scenarios from the War on Terror. While past analyses have emphasized top-down circulation of pro-military ideologies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674724984
• ISBN13: 9780674724983
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.