For years, there's been widespread speculation about the relationship between violent video games and violence in the real world. Joystick Warriors provides the clearest account yet of the latest research on this issue. Drawing on the insights of media scholars, military analysts, combat veterans, and gamers themselves, the film trains its sights on the wildly popular genre of first-person shooter games, exploring how the immersive experience they offer links up with the larger stories we tell ourselves as a culture about violence, militarism, guns, and manhood. Along the way, it examines the game industry's longstanding working relationship with the U.S. military and the American gun industry, and offers a riveting examination of the games themselves -- showing how they work to sanitize, glamorize, and normalize violence while cultivating dangerously regressive attitudes and ideas about masculinity and militarism.

Media Education Foundation Collection

Violence in video games, Video games and children, Violence in popular culture, Mass media and children, Video games -- Social aspects, Video games -- Psychological aspects, Computer games -- Social aspects, Computer games -- Psychological aspects

Sorkin, Roger (director), Sorkin, Roger (writer), Sorkin, Roger (producer), Alexander, Leigh (commentator), Huntemann, Nina (producer), Jhally, Sut (writer), Jhally, Sut (executive producer), Media Education Foundation (producer)

00:56:46 (HH:MM:SS)

English

adult/continuing education, higher education, high school (grades 10-12), college

Name	Media Education Foundation
Role	distributor
Telephone	413-584-8500
Address	60 Masonic St., Northampton, MA 01060
Email	[email protected]

2013-01-01

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