Virtual Weaponry: The Militarized Internet in Hollywood War Films

by Aaron Tucker

Book Overview

This book examines the convergent paths of the Internet and the American military, interweaving a history of the militarized Internet with analysis of a number of popular Hollywood movies in order to track how the introduction of the Internet into the war film has changed the genre, and how the movies often function as one part of the larger Military-Industrial- Media-Entertainment Network and the Total War Machine. The book catalogues and analyzes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319868039
• ISBN13: 9783319868035
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"