60 Analysis and Criticism: Cultural Representations of the Vietnam War. (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
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This article is from the Vietnam FAQ, by Brian Ross, John R. Tegtmeier, Edwin E. Moise, Frank Vaughan, John Tegtmeier with numerous contributions by others.
60 Analysis and Criticism: Cultural Representations of the Vietnam War. (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
Anderegg, Michael A., ed. Inventing Vietnam : The War in
Film and Television. Culture and the Moving Image.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
*CORE* Excellent collection of 14 articles from
varying perspectives on the contested meaning of Vietnam
presented in the cultural representations of the war in film and on
television. Fine introduction to the subject.
Beidler, Philip. Re-writing America : Vietnam Authors in
their Generation. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
Dittmar, Linda and Gene Michard, eds. From Hanoi to
Hollywood : The Vietnam War in American Film. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 1990.
Gotera, Vince. Radical Visions : Poetry by Vietnam
Veterans. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
Gruner, Elliott. Prisoners of Culture : Representing the
Vietnam P.O.W. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1993.
Hellmann, John. American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
Jeffords, Susan. The Remasculinization of America: Gender
and the Vietnam War. Bloomington, IN: University of Indoiana Press,
1989.
Lomperis, Timothy J. Reading the Wind : The Literature of
the Vietnam War. With bibliographic commentary by John Clark Pratt.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987.
Louvre, Alf and J. Walsh, eds. Tell me Lies About Vietnam :
Cultural Battles for the Meaning of the War. Philadelphia: Open
University Press, 1988.
Martin, Andrew. Receptions of War : Vietnam in American
Culture. Oklahoma project for discourse and theory, v. 10. Norman, OK:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
Searle, William J. ed. Search and Clear : Critical
Responses to Selected Literature and Films of the Vietnam War. Bowling
Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988.
Shafer, D. Michael, ed. The Legacy : The Vietnam War in the
American Imagination. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.
An excellent collection of 14 articles bearing on
various aspects of the cultural respresentations and differing socially
created realities in the US cocerning the Vietnam War and its
aftermath. Topics include the recreation of the war in the arts,
the impact of the draft and the treatment of veterans and their
narratives, and the contested nature of the discourse over the meaning and
definition of the war.
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