Inventing Vietnam The War in Film and Television

Name: Inventing Vietnam The War in Film and Television
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ISBN: 9780877228622

ISBN-10: 0877228620

ISBN-13: 9780877228622

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Authors: Michael Anderegg

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The Vietnam War has been depicted by every available medium, each presenting a message, an agenda, of what the filmmakers and producers choose to project about America's involvement in Southeast Asia. This collection of essays, most of which are previously unpublished, analyzes the themes, modes, and stylistic strategies seen in a broad range of films and television programs.From diverse perspectives, the contributors comprehensively examine early documentary and fiction films, postwar films of the 1970s such as The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now, and the reformulated postwar films of the 1980s-Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Born on the Fourth of July. They also address made-for-television…

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List price: $32.95
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 10/11/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 295
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Michael Anderegg is professor of English at the University of North Dakota. He is the editor of Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and Television,and author of David Leanand William Wyler.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Hollywood and Vietnam John Wayne and Jane Fonda as Discourse


Notes



All the Animals Come out at Night


Notes



Vietnam and the Hollywood Genre Film


Notes



Charlie Don't Surf Race and Culture in the Vietnam War Films


Notes


Finding a Language for Vietnam in the Action-Adventure Genre


Notes



Narrative Patterns and Mythic Trajectories in Mid-1980s Vietnam Movies


Notes



Rambo's Vietnam and Kennedy's New Frontier


Notes


Gardens of Stone, Platoon, and Hamburger Hill: Ritual and Remembrance


Notes



Primetime Television's Tour of Duty


Notes



Women Next Door to War


Notes



Male Bonding, Hollywood Orientalism, and the Repression of the Feminine in Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket


Notes



Vietnam, Chaos, and the Dark Art of Improvisation


Notes



Witness to War Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic, and Born on the Fourth of July


Notes



Teaching Vietnam the Politics of Documentary


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Selected Filmography and Videography


The Contributors


Index