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The Vietnam Experience: A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs, and Films

Autor Kevin Hillstrom, Laurie Collier Hillstrom
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 feb 1998 – vârsta până la 17 ani
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313301834
ISBN-10: 0313301832
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Greenwood
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

KEVIN HILLSTROM and LAURIE COLLIER HILLSTROM are partners in Northern Lights Writers Group. Their other books include International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers: Directors, Biography Today: Environmental Leaders, and Small Business Encyclopedia.

Cuprins

Advisory BoardPrefaceAfter Our War: Conscientious Objectors and Other Draft ResistersApocalypse Now: The Vietnam War as Hallucinatory ExperienceArmies of the Night: The March on the Pentagon"Ballad of the Green Berets": U.S. Special Forces in VietnamThe Best and the Brightest: Policymakers of the Kennedy and Johnson AdministrationsBloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans: African-Americans and Vietnam"Born in the U.S.A.": Returning Home from the WarBorn on the Fourth of July: Disabled Veterans in AmericaA Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam: Military Advisor John Vann and His Experiences in VietnamCasualties of War: Atrocities in VietnamComing Home: Antiwar Vietnam VeteransThe Deer Hunter: The Fall of SaigonDispatches: Khe Sanh and the Tet OffensiveFields of Fire: GI View of the Antiwar MovementFire in the Lake: Impact of the War on Vietnamese Society"Fortunate Son": Vietnam as a Working-Class WarFriendly Fire: "Friendly Fire" Casualties and Stateside GriefFull Metal Jacket: Lessons of Basic TrainingGo Tell the Spartans: U.S. Advisory Effort in VietnamGoing After Cacciato: Desertion during the Vietnam WarThe Green Berets: U.S. Media Coverage of the WarThe Hanoi Hilton: American POWsHearts and Minds: American Apathy after the U.S. WithdrawalHome Before Morning: American Nurses in VietnamIn Country: The Vietnam Veterans MemorialIn Pharaoh's Army: "Survivor's Guilt"In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam: Robert McNamara and the WarThe Killing Fields: The Khmer Rouge Takeover of Cambodia"Masters of War": The Military-Industrial ComplexMeditations 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 VeteransPlatoon: Decline in U.S. Military Performance in Vietnam: Causes and ConsequencesThe Quiet American: American Intervention in the French-Viet Minh WarRambo: First Blood, Part II: The Vietnam War and American Self-Image in the 1980sThe Real War: American Military Strategy and Its Toll on Vietnam's Land and PeopleA Rumor of War: "Americanization" of the WarSong of Napalm: Vietnam Veteran PoetrySticks and Bones: Postwar Reintegration into Family NetworksThe Things They Carried: The War in Quang Ngai ProvinceThe 13th Valley: "Humping the Boonies": Vietnam's Terrain and Climate"We Gotta Get Out of This Place": Rock and Roll Soundtrack to the WarWinners and Losers: Women Correspondents in VietnamOther Notable Works About the Vietnam War: Fictional Films, Documentary Films, Songs, Fiction, Nonfiction (Memoirs and Oral Narratives), Poetry, PlaysIndex