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Vietnam on film : from the Green Berets to Apocalypse now / Gilbert Adair.

Adair, Gilbert. (Author).

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.
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.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library PN 1995.9 .W3 A33 1981 250988 Stacks Available -