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FROM HANOI TO HOLLYWOOD - The Vietnam War in American Film
by Dittmar, Linda; Michaud, Gene (editors) (Michael Klein; Rick Berg; Leo CAwley; Harry W. Haines; Gaylyn Studlar; DAvid Desser; Gregory A. Waller; Tony Williams; Frank P. Tomasulo; Leonard Quart; Clyde Taylor; Sumiko Higashi; Michael Selig; Susan Jeffords)
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
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- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0813515866
- ISBN 13
- 9780813515861
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New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1990. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xv) 387 pp. Green cloth lettered in silver on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white photographs. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Chapters are: INTRODUCTION: America's Vietnam War Films: Marching Toward Denial by Linda Dittmar and Gene Michaud. ONE: Wide Angles: History in the Remaking: Historical Memory Film and the Vietnam Era by Michael Klein; Losing Vietnam: Covering the War in an Age of Technology by Rick Berg; The War about the War: Vietnam Films and American Myth by Leo Cawley; They Were Called and They Went: The Political Rehabilitation of the Vietnam Veteran by Harry W. Haines. TWO: Close-ups: Representation in Detail: Never Having to Say You're Sorry: Rambo's Rewriting of the Vietnam War by Gaylyn Studlar and David Desser; Rambo: Getting to Win This Time by Gregory A. Waller; Missing in Action: The Vietnam Construction of the Movie Star by Tony Williams; The Politics of Ambivalence: Apocalypse Now as Prowar and Antiwar Film by Frank P. Tomasulo; The Deer Hunter: Superman in Vietnam by Leonard Quart. THREE: Other Frames: Subtext and Difference: The Colonialist Subtext in Platoon by Clyde Taylor; Night of the Living Dead: A Horror Film about the Horrors of the Vietnam Era by Sumiko Higashi; Boys Will Be Men: Oedipal Drama in Coming Home by Michael Selig; Reproducing Fathers: Gender and the Vietnam War in U.S. Culture by Susan Jeffords; Portrait of a Disabled Vietnam Veteran: Alex Cutter of Cutter's Way by Martin F. Norden; Strange Hells: Hollywood in Search of America's Lost War by Keven Bowen. FOUR: Other Forms: Documenting the Vietnam War by David E. James; Imaging the Other: Representations of Vietnam in Sixties Political Documentary by Michael Renov; We Aren't on the Wrong Side - We ARE the Wrong Side: Peter Davis Targets American Hearts and Minds by David Grosser; Dear America: Transparency Authority and Interpretation in a Vietnam War Documentary by Barry Dornfeld; followed by: Appendix A: Chronology: The United States Vietnam and American Film; Appendix B: Selected Filmography: The Vietnam War on Film; and an index..
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- W. Fraser Sandercombe
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 228143
- Title
- FROM HANOI TO HOLLYWOOD - The Vietnam War in American Film
- Author
- Dittmar, Linda; Michaud, Gene (editors) (Michael Klein; Rick Berg; Leo CAwley; Harry W. Haines; Gaylyn Studlar; DAvid Desser; Gregory A. Waller; Tony Williams; Frank P. Tomasulo; Leonard Quart; Clyde Taylor; Sumiko Higashi; Michael Selig; Susan Jeffords)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0813515866
- ISBN 13
- 9780813515861
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1990
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- movie; film; motion picture; cinema; tie in; short timers; full metal jacket; platoon; vietnam war;
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - United States; Entertainment;
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