War Isn’t Hell, It’s Entertainment

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War Isn’t Hell, It’s Entertainment is written by Fabian Virchow and published by McFarland. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1476627770 (ISBN 10) and 9781476627779 (ISBN 13).

Real war is a cruel theater of death, yet it is also an exciting narrative exploited for national, political and commercial purposes and turned into numerous films, television shows, computer games, news stories and reenactment plays. These essays examine the relationship between war, visual media and entertainment from a number of academic perspectives. Key topics include how war is used as an imaginary site to stage dramas; how boundaries between war, media, and entertainment dissolve as new media alters the formal qualities of representation; how entertainment is used to engage audiences; and what effect products of war and entertainment have on consumers of popular culture.