Kevin Hillstrom, Laurie Collier Hillstrom

The Vietnam Experience

A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs, and Films

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Produktbeschreibung

The Vietnam War was one of the most painful and divisive events in American history. The conflict, which ultimately took the lives of 58,000 Americans and more than three million Vietnamese, became a subject of bitter and impassioned debate. The most dramatic-and frequently the most enduring-efforts to define and articulate America's ill-fated involvement in Vietnam emerged from popular culture. American journalists, novelists, playwrights, poets, songwriters, and filmmakers-many of them eyewitnesses-have created powerful, heartfelt works documenting their thoughts and beliefs about the war. By examining those works, this book provides readers with a fascinating resource that explores America's ongoing struggle to assess the war and its legacies. This encyclopedia includes 44 essays, each providing detailed information on an important film, song, or literary work about Vietnam. Each essay provides insights into the Vietnam-era experiences and views of the work's primary creative force, historical background on issues or events addressed in the work, discussion of the circumstances surrounding the creation of the work, and sources for further information. This book also includes an appendix listing of more than 275 films, songs, and literary works dealing with the war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780313301834
• ISBN-10: 0313301832
• Artikelnr.: 22234192

Autorenporträt

Kevin Hillstrom, Laurie Collier Hillstrom

Inhaltsangabe

Advisory Board Preface After Our War: Conscientious Objectors and Other
Draft Resisters Apocalypse Now: The Vietnam War as Hallucinatory Experience
Armies of the Night: The March on the Pentagon "Ballad of the Green
Berets": U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam The Best and the Brightest:
Policymakers of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations Bloods: An Oral
History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans: African-Americans and Vietnam
"Born in the U.S.A.": Returning Home from the War Born on the Fourth of
July: Disabled Veterans in America A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and
America in Vietnam: Military Advisor John Vann and His Experiences in
Vietnam Casualties of War: Atrocities in Vietnam Coming Home: Antiwar
Vietnam Veterans The Deer Hunter: The Fall of Saigon Dispatches: Khe Sanh
and the Tet Offensive Fields of Fire: GI View of the Antiwar Movement Fire
in the Lake: Impact of the War on Vietnamese Society "Fortunate Son":
Vietnam as a Working-Class War Friendly Fire: "Friendly Fire" Casualties
and Stateside Grief Full Metal Jacket: Lessons of Basic Training Go Tell
the Spartans: U.S. Advisory Effort in Vietnam Going After Cacciato:
Desertion during the Vietnam War The Green Berets: U.S. Media Coverage of
the War The Hanoi Hilton: American POWs Hearts and Minds: American Apathy
after the U.S. Withdrawal Home Before Morning: American Nurses in Vietnam
In Country: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial In Pharaoh's Army: "Survivor's
Guilt" In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam: Robert McNamara
and the War The Killing Fields: The Khmer Rouge Takeover of Cambodia
"Masters of War": The Military-Industrial Complex Meditations in Green:
Drug Abuse in Vietnam "Ohio": The Kent State Shootings "Okie from
Muskogee": Anthems of the "Silent Majority" Paco's Story: Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder among Vietnam Veterans Platoon: Decline in U.S. Military
Performance in Vietnam: Causes and Consequences The Quiet American:
American Intervention in the French-Viet Minh War Rambo: First Blood, Part
II: The Vietnam War and American Self-Image in the 1980s The Real War:
American Military Strategy and Its Toll on Vietnam's Land and People A
Rumor of War: "Americanization" of the War Song of Napalm: Vietnam Veteran
Poetry Sticks and Bones: Postwar Reintegration into Family Networks The
Things They Carried: The War in Quang Ngai Province The 13th Valley:
"Humping the Boonies": Vietnam's Terrain and Climate "We Gotta Get Out of
This Place": Rock and Roll Soundtrack to the War Winners and Losers: Women
Correspondents in Vietnam Other Notable Works About the Vietnam War:
Fictional Films, Documentary Films, Songs, Fiction, Nonfiction (Memoirs and
Oral Narratives), Poetry, Plays Index