Militainment, Inc. – Militarism and Pop Culture
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. (Excerpt from mediaed.org)
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Great Documentary, the best I’ve seen on this topic.
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This documentary is very good and touches upon a lot of different issues in the media from the actual news coverage to the use of country music in promoting war, the use of action figures, and video games.
It really disgusts me, but it is important to know how the public is manipulated into thinking war is good or necessary or patriotic, instead of seeing it for what it really is. It is the unecessary destruction of human life on a massive scale.
If you like this, watch Enemy Image. It compares current coverage to Vietnam coverage. …I can’t get over the use of video games, though I know this is one of the ways young boys are brainwashed into thinking war is fun and cool. I have been wanting to do research on it for a Phd and make a documentary. Anyone want to make a documentary?
great documentary…it is so sad that war has been morphed into entertainment and the public blindly follows buzzwords like “support our troops”. Just sad
Great documentary. Just a shame it’s out of sync. Could anyone re-upload it?
yea this doc sure does explain on those sudden urges i had to join a military branch.. but to put it as the late & great George Carlin once said “..war, and the military is nothing but a bunch of guys on a field waving their pricks{its nothing but macho ********}” RIP Mr. Carlin
fantastic doc. it really covers the methods of modern propaganda in great detail.
it leaves you flabbergasted how the media, the government, the industry (teddy bears and m-16s?!?), artists and sports leagues act in concert to sell us the war…or just “to sell”.
the pointed and coherent presentation make it no exaggeration to say that’s one of the best war documentaries ever! FUTK
its hilarious how people claim war is unnecessary. im pretty sure it took a war to defeat nazism…
war is the source of evolution. war is older than humanity. ever wonder why plants grow towards the sun? because sunlight is a limited resource; the taller plants block the shorter ones, and thus prosper.
nature is what it is. one big conflict. stop hating on nature and start competing.
@ lol@comments: I sure hope you are one of few, or humanity is certainly doomed.
We must recognize the uselessness of wars if we want to survive. If not, humanity will surely destroy itself. And yes, that would truly be evolution: The extinction of species not able to survive. In our case, due to our endless stupidity.
@lol@comments & @Hardy
You are both right. It’s a great ideal that human’s would somehow collectively come to the agreement that war is unnecessary, but it is much easier said then done. War is necessary in some cases as @lol commented, but the advocation for unjust war should not be considered necessary. War should be a last resort. I think most people realize this but then backlash harshley when we see war used to impose ones will.
War is always for the benefit of the handlers that control the leaders at the expense of the ignorant, naive, poor, mentally lacking or morally defiant.
War is a scam.
“War Is a Racket” by U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler stated it then after wwI and it holds true day as then and always.
Very well presented, well thought of. The in depth analysis from all possible angles is excellent. One of the best presented on this topic. The flow, the division into segments and analysis is really worthy of praise.
A very clear and excellently structured presentation to reveal how technology have been to dehumanize the whole concept of war, belittling the devastation and suffering of, what some may have not realized, other human beings. The highlights on how the use of the video games-like screens on bombers, the use of poetic words during news reporting, songs and entertainment shows to dehumanize the real faces of war have been enlightening, yet saddening.
I love militarism. This douche-bag makes it out to be something bad.
there is a better synced version on youtube, just recently added
I think lol@comments is out his/her mind saying such thing about war, humanity and nature. I am sure such person would love to spend couple of weeks holiday in Iraq or Gaza to test own competitive styles on ground!!!! Silly minds just cannot be sillier.
War is evil and lol@comments is his brother. Life is not about competing, life is about love, co-operation and joint work. Those plants that you claim are competing for sunlight is a pitty claim, sun is larger than you think, humanity will vanish and sun will not, those plants are meants to grow to the height they are (darwin is the most unrealiable theorists of all times). All of the wars that we have heard of or witnessed are illegal by the terms of UN but unfortunately greed make humen make falsified facts and claim in order to engage with such evil activity. Most government don’t care about their people, their plots are to increase their bank balances. Try to go out of their way, they will minse you. there is a lot to say but later……….
thanks to the maker of that well done documentry!
Great documentary, but 202:52 to repeat the same cr*p over and over again?
Ok I got it the first time – most of us were played like fish. Hate to say that but I figured that out when Dubya kept trying to sell me that Iraq was responsible for 9/11, and contrary to what this documentary claims, many others tuned out on Bush as well
You only have to say it once, not 100 times. This whole thing could have been done in 45 minutes.
Modern Warfare 2, Halo and the rest. Love ‘em, but remember that that’s as fun as war can ever get. Get on the ground in a real war, and things just don’t seem fun anymore.
War is necessary? Do you characterize the attack on September 11 as war as well? I guess in your book, that was absolutely necessary as well. The smaller plant trying to get longer to block you out…so to speak…eh?