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Title:

Inventing Vietnam : the war in film and television / edited by Michael Anderegg.

Publisher:

Temple University Press,

Copyright Date:

1991

Description:

ix, 315 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Television plays, American--History and criticism.
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Motion pictures and the conflict.
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Press coverage.
War films--United States--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Anderegg, Michael A.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-297) and index.

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.

Series:

Culture and the moving image

ISBN:

9780877228622 (paper : alk. paper)
0877228620 (paper : alk. paper)
9780877228615 (cloth : alk. paper)
0877228612 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)23254475

LCCN:

91011392

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)