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Virtual Weaponry: The Militarized Internet in Hollywood War Films

Autor Aaron Tucker
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 noi 2017
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 toolsthat can be applied to understanding and potentially resist modern warfare.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319601977
ISBN-10: 3319601970
Pagini: 228
Ilustrații: XI, 250 p. 22 illus., 21 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Introduction: Virtual Weaponry.- Chapter 2: The Hard Technological Body in the Exoskeletal Soldier.- Chapter 3: The Soldier Interfaces on the Digitally Augmented Battlefield.- Chapter 4: War Films, Combat Simulators and The Absent Virtual Soldier.- Chapter 5: Ender’s War Games: Drones, Data and the Simulation of War as Weapon and Tactic.- Chapter 6: The Civilian Soldiers of Cyberwarfare.

Notă biografică

Aaron Tucker is author of Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema along with the poetry collections punchlines and irresponsible mediums: the chesspoems of Marcel Duchamp. His current collaborative project, Loss Sets, translates poems into sculptures which are then 3D printed; he is also the co-creator of The ChessBard, an app that transforms chess games into poems (chesspoetry.com). He is currently a lecturer in the English Department and a Research Fellow with the Centre for Digital Humanities at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. 

Caracteristici

Updates the genre of the war film by discussing how the integration of Internet-enabled technologies has changed aspects of the genre, specifically the construction of the enemy, the soldier and combat Discusses a number of films that have received little scholarly attention, including a number of films only recently released Constructs and analyzes the different filmic techniques used to portray a militarized Internet and argues what those interfaces and uses encourage in a movie watcher Encourages a critical understanding of “real life” modern warfare and its technologies as reflected in the analyzed films Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras