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The Resource Returning fire : Interventions in video game culture, A Roger Stahl production ; in collaboration with the Media Education Foundation ; written, directed.by Roger Stahl, (streaming video)

Returning fire : Interventions in video game culture, A Roger Stahl production ; in collaboration with the Media Education Foundation ; written, directed.by Roger Stahl, (streaming video)

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Video games like Modern Warfare, America's Army, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now far outpace even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The sophistication of these games is undeniable, offering users a stunningly realistic experience of ground combat and a glimpse into the increasingly virtual world of long-distance, push-button warfare. Far less clear, though, is what these games are doing to users, our political culture, and our capacity to empathize with people directly affected by the actual trauma of war. For the culture-jamming activists featured in this film, these uncertainties were a call to action. In three separate vignettes, we see how Anne-Marie Schleiner, Wafaa Bilal, and Joseph Delappe moved dissent from the streets to our screens, infiltrating war games in an attempt to break the hypnotic spell of "militainment." Their work forces all of us -- gamers and non-gamers alike -- to think critically about what it means when the clinical tools of real-world killing become forms of consumer play
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  • eng
  • eng
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Edited version.
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1 online resource (2 video files, approximately 90 minutes)
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Returning fire : Interventions in video game culture
Title
Returning fire
Title remainder
Interventions in video game culture
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A Roger Stahl production ; in collaboration with the Media Education Foundation ; written, directed.by Roger Stahl
Title variation
Interventions in video game culture
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Subject
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Language
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
Video games like Modern Warfare, America's Army, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now far outpace even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The sophistication of these games is undeniable, offering users a stunningly realistic experience of ground combat and a glimpse into the increasingly virtual world of long-distance, push-button warfare. Far less clear, though, is what these games are doing to users, our political culture, and our capacity to empathize with people directly affected by the actual trauma of war. For the culture-jamming activists featured in this film, these uncertainties were a call to action. In three separate vignettes, we see how Anne-Marie Schleiner, Wafaa Bilal, and Joseph Delappe moved dissent from the streets to our screens, infiltrating war games in an attempt to break the hypnotic spell of "militainment." Their work forces all of us -- gamers and non-gamers alike -- to think critically about what it means when the clinical tools of real-world killing become forms of consumer play
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MaNoMEF
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videorecording
Credits note
Editor, Roger Stahl ; original music, Roger Stahl, Andrew Killoy
Date time place
Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2011
Intended audience
  • Grade 9+
  • Higher education
PerformerNote
Narrator, Roger Stahl ; participants, Joseph Delappe, Anne-Marie Schleiner, Wafaa Bilal
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1963-
  • 1970-
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  • Bilal, Wafaa
  • Delappe, Joseph
  • Schleiner, Anne-Marie
  • Stahl, Roger
Runtime
89
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  • Combat
  • Computer war games
  • Computer war games
  • Government and the press
  • Iraq War, 2003-2011
  • Mass media and war
  • Mass media
  • Popular culture
  • Press and politics
  • Special forces (Military science)
Technique
live action
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Returning fire : Interventions in video game culture, A Roger Stahl production ; in collaboration with the Media Education Foundation ; written, directed.by Roger Stahl, (streaming video)
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kan1216740
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Edition
Edited version.
Extent
1 online resource (2 video files, approximately 90 minutes)
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unknown
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online
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  • If you can{u2019}t find the material you require in the Kanopy collection, please contact your subject librarian
  • Available for use by up to 3 uses, 4th uses triggers 1 year subscription for unlimited users
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1216740
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sound
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sound on medium
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other
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Returning fire : Interventions in video game culture, A Roger Stahl production ; in collaboration with the Media Education Foundation ; written, directed.by Roger Stahl, (streaming video)
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
kan1216740
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
Edited version.
Extent
1 online resource (2 video files, approximately 90 minutes)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Governing access note
  • If you can{u2019}t find the material you require in the Kanopy collection, please contact your subject librarian
  • Available for use by up to 3 uses, 4th uses triggers 1 year subscription for unlimited users
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Medium for sound
other
Other physical details
digital, .flv file, sound
Publisher number
1216740
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
sound
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
  • other
  • remote
Video recording format
other

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