Mythologizing the Vietnam War : visual culture and mediated memory / edited by Jennifer Good, Paul Lowe, Brigitte Lardinois and Val Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Good, Jennifer, editor.

Lowe, Paul, 1963- editor.

Lardinois, Brigitte, editor.

Williams, Val, 1949- editor.

Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Social aspects--Congresses.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Influence--Congresses.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Motion pictures and the war--Congresses.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Mass media and the war--Congresses.

War and motion pictures.

Social aspects.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 179 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Summary:

The Vietnam War is evolving from contemporary memory into history. Fifty years on, it still serves as a benchmark in the history of war reporting and in the representation of conflict in popular culture and historical memory. However, as contemporary culture tries to come to terms with the events and their political, psychological and cultural implications, the 'real' Vietnam War has been appropriated and changed into a set of mythologies which implicate American and Vietnamese national identities specifically, and ideas of modern conflict more broadly, particularly in shaping the mediation of the twenty-first century 'War on Terror'. This collection of interdisciplinary critical essays explores the cultural legacies of the US involvement in South East Asia, considering this process of 'mythologising' through the lenses of visual media and tracing the war's evolution from contemporary reportage to subsequent interpretation and consumption. It reassesses the role of visual media in covering and remembering the war, its memorialisation, mediation and memory. The origin of this collection of essays was an international conference, titled "Considering Vietnam", held at the Imperial War Museum, London, in February 2012, co-organised by the museum and the University of the Arts London Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC). Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The State

Chapter 1 Violent Representation: Photographs, Soldiers and an Ideological War / Jeremy Kreusch Kreusch, Jeremy 3

Chapter 2 Uses of the Vietnam War as a Frame of Reference in Vietnamese Media Discussion of 9/11 and the "War on Terror" / Huong Nguyen Nguyen, Huong 22

Chapter 3 Memorializing Thailand's "Separate Victory" in the Vietnam War: An Official Argument for Triumph Made From the Losing Side / Richard Ruth Ruth, Richard 39

Part II The Screen

Chapter 4 The Mythologizing of the Vietnam War through the use of Rock and Roll in Film / Peter Hope Hope, Peter 63

Chapter 5 Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket: Constructing War-Torn Vietnam in England / Richard Daniels Daniels, Richard 79

Part III The Body

Chapter 6 Bodily Visions of the War in Vietnam / Madeleine Corcoran Corcoran, Madeleine 109

Chapter 7 Sexual Assault and the Mai Lai Massacre: The Erasure of Sexual Violence from Public Memory of the Vietnam War / Valerie Wieskamp Wieskamp, Valerie 127

Chapter 8 War Dialling: Image Transmissions from Saigon / Susan Schuppli Schuppli, Susan 144.

Notes:

"The origin of this collection was an international conference titled "Considering Vietnam" and held at the Imperial War Museum, London, in February 2012."--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

ISBN:

1443854425

9781443854429

OCLC:

900471765

Publisher Number:

99963563308