The Vietnam War on film / David Luhrssen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luhrssen, David, author.

Series:

Hollywood History.

Hollywood History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War films--United States--History and criticism.

War films.

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

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 170 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 2019.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Vietnam War on Film illustrates how to employ film as a teaching tool. It also stands on its own as an account of the war and the major films that have depicted it. Even for many people who experienced the Vietnam War first hand, memories of that conflict have often been shaped by the popular films that depicted it: The Quiet American, The Green Berets, The Deer Hunter, Coming Home, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Apocalypse Now, among others. Vietnam War on Film examines how the war is portrayed through a selection of ten iconic films that represent the war through dramatization and storytelling as opposed to through documentary footage. The book includes an introduction to the war's history and a timeline of events, followed by ten chapters, each of which focuses on a specific Vietnam War movie. Chapters offer a uniquely detailed level of historical context for the films, weighing their depiction of events against the historical record and evaluating how well or how poorly those films reflected the truth and shaped public memory and discourse over the war. A final section of "Resources" provides a comprehensive annotated bibliography of print and electronic sources to aid students and teachers in further research.

Contents:

Series Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chronology 1. The Green Berets (1968) 2. Coming Home (1978) 3. The Boys in Company C (1978) 4. The Deer Hunter (1978) 5. Apocalypse Now (1979) 6. Platoon (1986) 7. Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8. We Were Soldiers (2002) 9. The Quiet American (2002) 10. Rescue Dawn (2007) Bibliography Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798216032212

9798216161912

9781440866739

1440866732

OCLC:

1089883640