Book Description
This book summarizes and briefly analyzes over 400 films about the Vietnam War.
Author : Jeremy M. Devine
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292716018
This book summarizes and briefly analyzes over 400 films about the Vietnam War.
Author : Jeremy M. Devine
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2017-08-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476605351
Beginning in 1948 with Paramount's Saigon and Universal's Rogue's Regiment, Hollywood has produced hundreds of features and made-for-television films about Vietnam and the ensuing conflict. With the exception of The Green Berets (1968), few were designed to rally Americans to the cause as earlier war movies had done. Many were not even combat films, instead dealing with such domestic issues as protests, veteran re-entry, MIAs and POWs. Arranged chronologically, this is a critical analysis of Vietnam War films from 1948 through 1993. Recurring themes are stressed along with the ways that movie America reflected the national reality, with essays blending plot synopses and critical commentary. The movies run the gamut of genres: dramas, action, adventure, horror, comedies and even one musical.
Author : Robert D. Schulzinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0199879370
The Vietnam War left wounds that have taken three decades to heal--indeed some scars remain even today. In A Time for Peace, prominent American historian Robert D. Schulzinger sheds light on how deeply etched memories of this devastating conflict have altered America's political, social, and cultural landscape. Schulzinger examines the impact of the war from many angles. He traces the long, twisted, and painful path of reconciliation with Vietnam, the heated controversy over soldiers who were missing in action, the influx of over a million Vietnam refugees into the US, and the plight of Vietnam veterans, many of whom returned home alienated, unhappy, and unappreciated. Schulzinger looks at how the controversies of the war have continued to be fought in books and films and, perhaps most important, he explores the power of the Vietnam metaphor on foreign policy, particularly in Central America, Somalia, the Gulf War, and the war in Iraq. Using a vast array of sources, A Time for Peace provides an illuminating account of a war that still looms large in the American imagination.
Author : Jeremy M. Devine
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
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Author : Charles E. Neu
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 2000-06-16
Category : History
ISBN :
Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In After Vietnam four distinguished scholars focus on different elements of the war's legacy, while one of the major architects of the conflict, former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara, contributes a final chapter pondering foreign policy issues of the twenty-first century. In the book's opening chapter, Charles E. Neu explains how the Vietnam War changed Americans' sense of themselves: challenging widely-held national myths, the war brought frustration, disillusionment, and a weakening of Americans' sense of their past and vision for the future. Brian Balogh argues that Vietnam became such a powerful metaphor for turmoil and decline that it obscured other forces that brought about fundamental changes in government and society. George C. Herring examines the postwar American military, which became nearly obsessed with preventing "another Vietnam." Robert K. Brigham explores the effects of the war on the Vietnamese, as aging revolutionary leaders relied on appeals to "revolutionary heroism" to justify the communist party's monopoly on political power. Finally, Robert S. McNamara, aware of the magnitude of his errors and burdened by the war's destructiveness, draws lessons from his experience with the aim of preventing wars in the future.
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Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Vietnam
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Page : 2712 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Bibliography
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Author : Jan Dodd
Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,6 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781858283395
Author : Jamie Russell
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
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From 'The Deer Hunter' to 'Platoon', the Vietnam cycle of films that America has been producing since the 1970s has had an impact on audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. This book offers an overview of the genre, including such films as 'Full Metal Jacket', 'Platoon', 'Rambo: First Blood' and 'Apocalypse Now'. Aiming to show the ways these films operate as fantasy wish-fulfilment, an attempt to come to terms with the war, and as simply an opportunity for action, this book will appeal to all viewers, students and fans of the Vietnam War film.
Author : John Day Tully
Publisher : Harvey Goldberg Series for Und
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Education
ISBN :
Part One: Reflections on Teaching the Vietnam War. - Part Two: Methods and Sources. - Part Three: Understanding and Teaching Specific Content.