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DESCRIPTION:War video games are part of an exploding market whose revenues outpace the 
 biggest Hollywood blockbusters. These games offer users a stunningly 
 realistic experience of ground combat and a glimpse into the increasingly 
 virtual world of long-distance, pushbutton warfare. What are 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 three 
 culture-jamming activists these uncertainties were a call to action.\n\nIn 
 three separate vignettes, Anne-Marie Schleiner, Wafaa Bilal, and Joseph 
 Delappe moved dissent from the streets to the screens, infiltrating war 
 games in an attempt to break the hypnotic spell of "militainment." Their 
 work forces all gamers and nongamers alike to think critically about what 
 it means when the clinical tools of real-world killing become forms of 
 consumer play.\n\nFilm is free and open to 
 all.\n\nhttp://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=152\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/10/18692948.php
SUMMARY:4th Tuesday Films: Returning Fire, Interventions in Video Game Culture
LOCATION:909 12th Street, Sacramento
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/10/18692948.php
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