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.
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