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The Vietnam War on Film
Even for many people who experienced the Vietnam War first hand, memories of that conflict have often been shaped by the popular films that depicted The Quiet American , The Green Berets , The Deer Hunter , Coming Home , Platoon , Full Metal Jacket , and Apocalypse Now , among others. Vietnam War on Film examines how the war is portrayed through a selection of ten iconic films that represent the war through dramatization and storytelling as opposed to through documentary footage. The book includes an introduction to the war's history and a timeline of events, followed by ten chapters, each of which focuses on a specific Vietnam War movie. Chapters offer a uniquely detailed level of historical context for the films, weighing their depiction of events against the historical record and evaluating how well or how poorly those films reflected the truth and shaped public memory and discourse over the war. A final section of "Resources" provides a comprehensive annotated bibliography of print and electronic sources to aid students and teachers in further research.
170 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 10, 2019
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