| Description |
190 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
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 |
| Notes |
Also published as Hollywood's Vietnam : from The green berets to Apocalypse now. London : Proteus, 1981 |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: pages 169-190 |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Motion pictures and the war.
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War films -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0906071437 |
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