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

Contributor Anderegg, Michael A.

Imprint:Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1991.

Descriptionix, 315 p. ; 22 cm.

Note: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.

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

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