The Vietnam War and American Culture |
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| Editor:
| Rowe, John C.
Berg, Richard |
| Series title: | The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-06732-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1991 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $41.00 |
Book Description:
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The Vietnam War and American Culture looks at the way American culture tries to appropriate the war. Veterans, journalists, poets, and scholars show how American culture represented and continues to represent the war on television, in newspaper accounts, in military propaganda films, and in popular films, novels, plays, and music. The book is contemporary, interpreting such recent films as the Rambo series and Platoon and such current television programmes as China Beach and Tour of Duty.
The Vietnam War and American Culture looks at the way American culture tries to appropriate the war. Veterans, journalists, poets, and scholars show how American culture represented and continues to represent the war on television, in newspaper accounts, in military propaganda films, and in popular films, novels, plays, and music. The book is contemporary, interpreting such recent films as the Rambo series and Platoon and such current television programmes as China Beach and Tour of Duty.