Covering everything from chess to football, from Saving Private Ryan to American Sniper, and from Call of Duty to drone interfaces, War Games is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the militarization of American culture, offering a compact yet comprehensive look at how we play with images of war.

 

JONNA EAGLE is an associate professor of film and media in the department of American studies at the University of Hawai‘i at M¿noa. She is the author of Imperial Affects: Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2017).
 

Contents
Introduction
1. Live
Tabletop Games¿
Gaming in Miniature
Combat and Contact Sports
Military Maneuvers
Recreational Reenactments
2. On Screen
Authentic Violence and the World War Two Combat Reports
Saving Private Ryan and the Reenactment of the Real
Vietnam on Big Screens and Small
Somatic War in the Twenty-First Century
3. Interactive
Flight Simulation and the Technologies of Preemption
The Military-Entertainment Complex
First-Person Shooters
Realism in Videogames
Back to the Battleground
Acknowledgements
Further Reading
Works Cited
Index