Record details

• ISBN: 0906071437
• ISBN: 9780906071434
• Physical Description: 190 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
• Publisher: New York : Proteus : ©1981.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Filmography: pages 169-190.

Formatted Contents Note:

Hollywood and Vietnam : John Wayne and Jane Fonda as discourse / Michael Anderegg -- "All the animals come out at night" : Vietnam meets Noir in Taxi Driver / Cynthia J. Fuchs -- Vietnam and the Hollywood genre film : inversions of American mythology in The deer hunter and Apocalypse now / John Hellmann -- "Charlie don't surf" : race and culture in the Vietnam War films / David Desser -- Finding a language for Vietnam in the action-adventure genre / Ellen Draper -- Narrative patterns and mythic trajectories in mid-1980s Vietnam movies / Tony Williams -- Rambo's Vietnam and Kennedy's new frontier / John Hellmann -- Gardens of stone, Platoon, and Hamburger hill : ritual and remembrance / Judy Lee Kinney. Primetime television's Tour of duty / Daniel Miller -- Women next door to war : China beach / Carolyn Reed Vartanian -- Male bonding, Hollywood orientalism, and the repression of the feminine in Kubrick's Full metal jacket / Susan White -- Vietnam, chaos, and the dark art of improvisation / Owen W. Gilman, Jr. -- Witness to war : Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic, and Born on the fourth of July / Thomas Doherty -- Teaching Vietnam : the politics of documentary / Thomas J. Slater.

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Subject:

Vietnam War (1961-1975)
War films > History and criticism.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Motion pictures and the war.
Motion pictures > United States > History.
Motion pictures.
War and motion pictures.
War films.
United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.