Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture

The depic­tion of war in an enter­tain­ment for­mat makes it far eas­i­er to con­sume. War films, embed­ded jour­nal­is­tic accounts of bat­tle­fields and video games present war in a sim­plis­tic man­ner and hide the sociopo­lit­i­cal, geopo­lit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic com­plex­i­ties of these con­flicts from the audi­ence.