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Inventing Vietnam : the war in film and television

Author: Michael A Anderegg
Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1991.
Series: Culture and the moving image.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael A Anderegg
ISBN: 0877228612 9780877228615 0877228620 9780877228622
OCLC Number: 23254475
Description: ix, 315 p. ; 22 cm.
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 Title: Culture and the moving image.
Responsibility: edited by Michael Anderegg.

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