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In whose eyes : the memoir of a Vietnamese filmmaker in war and peace / by Trần Văn Thủy as told to Lê Thanh Dũng ; edited and adapted by Wayne Karlin ; translated by Eric Henry and Nguyễn Quang Dy.

Van Pelt Library PN2889.89.T74 A6 2016
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Trần, Văn Thủy (Film director), author.
Contributor:
Karlin, Wayne, editor.
Lê, Thanh Dũng, interviewer.
Standardized Title:
Chuyện nghề của Thủy. English (Karlin)
Language:
English
Vietnamese
Subjects (All):
Trần, Văn Thủy (Film director).
Trần, Văn Thủy.
Motion picture producers and directors--Vietnam--Biography.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Vietnam.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xx, 219 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]
Summary:
"Trà̂n Văn Thủy is a celebrated Vietnamese filmmaker of more than twenty award-winning documentaries. A North Vietnamese Army cameraman during the Vietnam War, he went on to achieve international fame as the director of films that address the human costs of the war and its aftermath. Thuy's memoir, when published in Vietnam in 2013, immediately sold out. In this translation, English-language readers are now able to learn in rich detail about the life and work of this preeminent artist. Written in a gentle and charming style, the memoir is filled with reflections on war, peace, history, freedom of expression, and filmmaking. Thuy also offers a firsthand account of the war in Vietnam and its aftermath from a Vietnamese perspective, adding a dimension rarely encountered in English-language literature"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
War
The swimmer
The measuring stick and the mirror
Do you feel honored?
Going south
Rebirth
The beauty and the bullet
Carrying the war home
An uneasy homecoming
Letters from the fire
The trans-Siberian express
Peace
Preface
Hanoi in whose eyes?
Untie the bonds of writers and artists
The story of kindness
Kindness repressed
Kindness abroad
A violin at My Lai
To the ends of all the seas
A letter
A birth
The labyrinth
An unpleasant occurrence
Immense sorrow is forbidden
The language of my land
Epilogue
A few words to Thy's daughter
Final words by Le Thanh Dung.
Notes:
Translated from the Vietnamese.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781625342522
1625342527
9781625342515
1625342519
OCLC:
947146630

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