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Jennifer Terry, an associate professor of women's studies at at the University of California at Irvine, examines the way masculinity and military rank are configured in USO productions and interactive computer gaming.
Terry offers a comparative analysis of these two entertainment forms as they relate to a history of military concerns for boosting troop morale during wartime.
In arguing that modern mass-marketed entertainment has come to be an art of war, she demonstrates how, in quite different ways, USO shows and computer-based battle simulation games link notions of pleasure to military imperatives of psychological fitness, battlefield might and patriotic sentiments through an evolving discourse of morale.
This analysis pays particular attention to the ways that masculinity and military rank (i.e. class) are configured through these two forms of entertainment.
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