Inventing Vietnam

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General Interest/Cinema Studies I N V E N T I N G VIETNAM The War in Film and Television edited b y Michael Anderegg Every available médium has presented a message, an agenda, of what filmmakers and producers choose to project about America's involvement in Southeast Asia. These essays, most previously unpublished, analyze the themes, modes, and stylistic strategies seen in a broad rangé of films and television programs. This comprehensive examination includes early documentary and fiction films, postwar films of the 1970s such as The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now, the reformulated postwar films of the 1980s-Platoon, Full Metál Jacket, and Born on the Fourth ofjuly-and made-for-television movies and serial dramas like China Beach and Tour ofDuty. From diverse perspectives, the contributors show how the earliest film responses to the Vietnam War employ myth and metaphor and are at times unable to escape glamorized Hollywood. Later films strive to portray a more realistic Vietnam... Tovább

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General Interest/Cinema Studies I N V E N T I N G VIETNAM The War in Film and Television edited b y Michael Anderegg Every available médium has presented a message, an agenda, of what filmmakers and producers choose to project about America's involvement in Southeast Asia. These essays, most previously unpublished, analyze the themes, modes, and stylistic strategies seen in a broad rangé of films and television programs. This comprehensive examination includes early documentary and fiction films, postwar films of the 1970s such as The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now, the reformulated postwar films of the 1980s-Platoon, Full Metál Jacket, and Born on the Fourth ofjuly-and made-for-television movies and serial dramas like China Beach and Tour ofDuty. From diverse perspectives, the contributors show how the earliest film responses to the Vietnam War employ myth and metaphor and are at times unable to escape glamorized Hollywood. Later films strive to portray a more realistic Vietnam experience, often creating images that attempt to memorialize or to manufacture different kinds of myths. Alsó considered are the power or powerlessness of individual soldiers, the racial views presented, and the inscriptions of gender roles. This volume alsó includes a chapter that discusses teaching Vietnam films and helping students discern and understand film rhetoric. Contributors to this volume are Cynthia J. Fuchs, John Hellmann, Dávid Desser, Ellen Draper, Tony Williams, Judy Lee Kinney, Dániel Miller, Carolyn Reed Vartanian, Susan White, Owen W. Gilman, Jr., Thomas Doherty, Thomas J. Slater, and the editor. Michael Anderegg is Professor of English at the University of North Dakota and the author of two other books, William Wyler and Dávid Lean. In the series Culture and the Moving Image, edited by Róbert Sklar On the front: Süli from Full Metál Jacket, 1987. Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive. Copyright 1987, Warner Bros. Vissza