![]() I think it should also be viewed by any parent considering buying their children a video game about war." " Returning Fire is a must see for any anti-war activist. Tilo Hartmann | Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam "Violent video games are just a game - or are they? And real war is not a game - or is it? Returning Fire is an intriguing and thought-provoking documentary about the striking ambivalence of contemporary first-person shooters and virtual warfare." Rikke Schubart | Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Southern Denmark | Co-editor of War Isn't Hell, It's Entertainment: Essays on Visual Media and the Representation of Conflict Highly intriguing, intelligent, and entertaining, Returning Fire is a must-see for anyone interested in war, digital culture and computer games." "Whether you are a gamer or not, this documentary will surely surprise you by its exploration of the unpredictable ways politics of resistance infiltrates our media today through art, online games, and internet communications. ![]() The DVD contains both an edited and an unedited version. 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. For the culture-jamming activists featured in this film, these uncertainties were a call to action. 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. 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. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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