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Mythologizing the Vietnam War : visual culture and mediated memory
- Title
- Mythologizing the Vietnam War : visual culture and mediated memory / edited by Jennifer Good, Paul Lowe, Brigitte Lardinois and Val Williams.
- Publication
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DS559.8.S6 M98 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- ix, 179 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Vietnam-oorlog.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Chapter one. Violent representtion: photographs, soldiers and an ideological war / Jeremy Kreusch -- chapter two. Uses of the Vietnam War as a frame of reference in Vietnamese media discussion of 9/11 and the "war on terror" / Huong Nguyen -- chapter three. Memoralizing Thailand's "separate victory" in the Vietnam War: an official argument for triumph made from the losing side / Richard Ruth -- chapter four. The mythologizing of the Vietnam War through the use of rock and roll in film / Peter Hope -- chapter five. Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket: construting war-torn Vietnam in England / Richar Daniels -- chapter six. Bodily visions of the war in Vietnam / Madeleine Corcoran -- chapter seven. Sexual assault and the Mai Lai Massacre: the erasure of sexual violence from public memory of the Vietnam War / Valerie Wieskamp -- chapter eight. War dialling: image transmissions from Saigon / Susan Schuppli.
- ISBN
- 9781443854429
- 1443854425
- OCLC
- ocn900471765
- 900471765
- SCSB-14471872
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library