| Other author/creator | Sorkin, Roger, film producer, film director, editor of moving image work. |
| Other author/creator | Jhally, Sut film producer, screenwriter, editor of moving image work. |
| Other author/creator | Alexander, Leigh, commentator. |
| Other author/creator | Anderson, Craig Alan, 1952- commentator. |
| Other author/creator | Bacevich, Andrew J. commentator. |
| Other author/creator | Huntemann, Nina commentator. |
| Other author/creator | Losh, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Mathews) commentator. |
| Other author/creator | Payne, Matthew Thomas, commentator. |
| Other author/creator | Thompson, K. C. (Kenneth Clive), 1944- commentator. |
| Other author/creator | Media Education Foundation. |
| Portion of title |
Video games, violence & militarism |
| Variant title |
Subtitle on container and disc surface: Video games, violence & the culture of militarism |
| Contents |
Introduction (2:25) -- The bottom line (6:52) -- Risk factors (6:43) -- Violence, cruelty & pleasure (6:10) -- Guns and games (5:39) -- Military entertainment complex (3:53) -- War as fantasy (6:41) -- Games of empire (4:55) -- Cultivating fear (4:29) -- No girls allowed (5:20) -- No reality allowed (4:38). |
| Abstract |
"For years, there has been widespread speculation, but very little consensus, 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 US 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 website. |
| General note | Originally produced as a documentary in 2013. |
| Credits | Editors: Roger Sorkin, Sut Jhally. |
| Performer |
Commentary: Leigh Alexander, Craig Anderson, Andrew Bacevich, Nina Huntemann, Sut Jhally, Elizabeth Losh, Matt Payne, Clive Thompson. |
| Technical details | DVD, NTSC; region 1. |
| Language | In English with optional English subtitles. |
| Genre/form | Short films United States. |
| Genre/form | Documentary films. |
| Genre/form | Educational films. |
| Genre/form | Social problem films. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Short films. |
| Genre/form | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| ISBN | 1932869832 |
| ISBN | 9781932869835 |
| UPC |
897952001786 |