| 书目名称 | Virtual Weaponry | | 副标题 | The Militarized Inte | | 编辑 | Aaron Tucker | | 视频video | | | 概述 | 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 comba | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | | 关键词 | Militarized Internet; Transhumanism; Posthumanism; Modern Warfare; War Film; Science Fiction Cinema | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60198-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-86803-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-60198-4 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |
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