Virtual Weaponry
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Virtual Weaponry

The Militarized Internet in Hollywood War Films

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Virtual Weaponry

The Militarized Internet in Hollywood War Films

About this book

This book examines the convergent paths of the Internet and the American military, interweaving a history of the militarized Internet with analysis of a number of popular Hollywood movies in order to track how the introduction of the Internet into the war film has changed the genre, and how the movies often function as one part of the larger Military-Industrial- Media-Entertainment Network and the Total War Machine. The book catalogues and analyzes representations of a militarized Internet in popular Hollywood cinema, arguing that such illustrations of digitally networked technologies promotes an unhealthy transhumanism that weaponizes the relationships between the biological and technological aspects of that audience, while also hierarchically placing the "human" components at the top. Such filmmaking and movie-watching should be replaced with a critical posthumanism that challenges the relationships between the audience and their technologies, in addition to providing critical tools that can be applied to understanding and potentially resist modern warfare.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9783319601977
eBook ISBN
9783319601984
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. List of Images
  4. Chapter 1 Introduction: Virtual Weaponry
  5. Chapter 2 The Hard Technological Body in the Exoskeletal Soldier
  6. Chapter 3 The Soldier Interfaces on the Digitally Augmented Battlefield
  7. Chapter 4 War Films, Combat Simulators and the Absent Virtual Soldier
  8. Chapter 5 Ender’s Wargames: Drones, Data and the Simulation of War as Weapon and Tactic
  9. Chapter 6 The Civilian Soldiers of Cyberwarfare
  10. Conclusion: What Might a War Film Look Like Going Forward?
  11. Films Cited
  12. Index