Introduction: Step right up! -- All-consuming war : from spectacle to interactivity -- Sports and the militarized body politic -- Reality war -- War games -- Toying with militainment -- Debriefing : previews to postviews
Summary
Offers insight into the ways that war is presented and viewed as entertainment - or 'militainment' - in contemporary American popular culture. This book argues that an interactive mode of militarized entertainment is recruiting its audience as virtual-citizen soldiers
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-197) and index
