From Hanoi to Hollywood : the Vietnam War in American film / edited by Linda Dittmar and Gene Michaud.

Contributor Dittmar, Linda, 1938-

Imprint:New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c1990.

Descriptionxv, 387 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction: America's Vietnam war films: marching toward denial / Linda Dittmar, Gene Michaud -- ONE. WIDE ANGLES: HISTORY IN THE REMAKING: Historical memory, film, and the Vietnam era / Michael Klein -- Losing Vietnam: covering the war in an age of technology / Rick Berg -- The war about the war: Vietnam films and American myth / Leo Cawley -- "They were called and they went": the political rehabilitation of the Vietnam veteran / Harry W. Haines -- TWO. CLOSE-UPS: REPRESENTATION IN DETAIL: Never having to say you're sorry: Rambo's rewriting of the Vietnam War / Gaylyn Studlar, David Desser -- ambo: getting to win this time / Geregory A. Waller -- Missingina ction: the Vietnam construction of the movie star / Tony Williams -- The politics of ambivalence: Apocalypse Now as prowar and antiwar film / Frank P. Tomasulo -- The Deer Hunter: the superman in Vietnam / Leonard Quart -- THREE. OTHER FRAMES: SUBTEXT AND DIFFERENCE: The colonialist subtext in Platoon / Clyde Taylor -- Night of the Living Dead: a horror film about the horrors of the Vietnam era / Sumiko Higashi -- Boys will be men: Oedipal ddrama in Coming Home / Michael Selig -- Reproducing fathers: gender and the Vietnam War in U.S. culture / Susan Jeffords -- Portrait of a disabled Vietnam veteran: Alex Cutter of Cutter's Way / Martin F. Norden -- "Strange hells": Hollywood in search of America's lost war / Kevin Bowen -- FOUR. OTHER FORMS: DOCUMENTING THE VIETNAM WAR: Documenting the Vietnam War / David E. James -- Imaging the otehr: representations of Vietnam in Sixties political documentary / Michael Renov -- "We aren't on the wrong side, we are the wrong side": Peter Davis targets (American) hearts and midns / David Grosser -- Dear America: transparency, authority, and interpretation in a Vietnam War documentary -- Appendix A: Chronology: The United States, Vietnam, and American film -- Appendix B: Selected filmography: The Vietnam War on film.

Bibliography Note:Filmography: p. [350]-375.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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