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REGRET TO INFORM (1998)
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Film & History
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January 1, 2007
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- McCosham, Anthony
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REGRET TO INFORM (1998)
Barbara Sonneborn, director
A common complaint about filmic representations of the Vietnam war, particularly those produced in Hollywood, is that the films tend to focus too narrowly on the personal relationships of the characters involved, ignoring not only the political context of the war but also the viewpoint of its Vietnamese participants. This trend is perhaps epitomized in Hal Ashby's Coming Home (1978), where the particulars of the Vietnam War are largely overlooked and the conflict is presented as little more than a plot device that sets the film's romance and melodrama into motion. In short, Hollywood's emphasis on personal struggles and triumphs acts to ...
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"It don't mean nothin'": Vietnam War fiction and postmodernism.(Critical...
College Literature;
March 22, 2003 ;
Carpenter, Lucas;
787 words
...One of the many ironies of the Vietnam War is that the one war America lost...novels according to John Newman's Vietnam War Literature: Annotated Bibliography...interpreting and representing the Vietnam War. One is through the precision lens...
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From combat to legacies: novels of the Vietnam war.
The Clearing House;
July 1, 1995 ;
Johannessen, Larry R.;
787 words
......America's participation in the Vietnam War as our most crucial national experience...consider how long the aftermath of the Vietnam War will continue to shape their lives...1992; Starr 1988) confirms - the Vietnam War might as well be the Peloponnesian...
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VIETNAM WAR VOICES TELL ALL SIDES
Rocky Mountain News;
June 20, 2003 ;
Jay Pawlowski SPECIAL TO THE NEWS;
782 words
......does one tell the story of the Vietnam War? How can any amount of text put...and say, this is it - this is the Vietnam War? That may be an impossible task...Appy's latest book, Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides, does...
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VIETNAM WAR VOICES TELL ALL...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);
June 20, 2003 ;
Pawlowski^, Jay;
787 words
......does one tell the story of the Vietnam War? How can any amount of text put...and say, this is it - this is the Vietnam War? That may be an impossible task...Appy's latest book, Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides, does...
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The lessons of Vietnam: using literature to introduce students to the...
Social Education;
October 1, 2002 ;
Kirkwood-Tucker, Toni Fuss Benton, Janet E.;
787 words
......Southeast Asia, the teaching of the Vietnam War remains one of the most controversial...perspective--even today--on the Vietnam War stands in sharp contrast to the...and cars. Images surrounding the Vietnam War, in contrast, evoke grainy stills...
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ON VIETNAM WAR AND ITS PROTESTERS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);
May 24, 2000 ;
338 words
......Bergen County, NJ) 05-24-2000 ON VIETNAM WAR AND ITS PROTESTERS Date: 05-24...Cathcart's "There was a reason for Vietnam War" (Your Views, May 11): It is difficult...conceive of how protesters of the Vietnam War contributed to the slaughter of...
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Rethinking American Press Coverage of the Vietnam War, 1965-68
Journalism History;
October 1, 2005 ;
Huebner, Andrew J;
787 words
......observers of U.S. press coverage of the Vietnam War have criticized the media for showing...it to you." On the matter of the Vietnam War in particular, he believed the...has always been beastly, but the Vietnam war was the first war exposed to television...
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Daum, Andreas W., Lloyd C. Gardner, and Wilfried Mausbach, eds. America,...
History: Review of New Books;
January 1, 2004 ;
Kingseed, Cole C.;
496 words
......years after the fall of Saigon, the Vietnam War still haunts the American consciousness...22 November 1998, America, the Vietnam War, and the World depicts the conflict...successfully link three dimensions of the Vietnam War--the war as America's War, the...
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The Vietnam War on Campus: Other Voices, More Distant Drums
Journal of College Student Development;
September 1, 2006 ;
Coomes, Michael D;
787 words
...The Vietnam War on Campus: Other Voices, More Distant...distinct resonance for those who read The Vietnam War on Campus: Other Voices, More Distant...event was the war in Southeast Asia. The Vietnam War, as it has become known, began for the...
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From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American Film.
The Nation;
January 20, 1992 ;
Robinson, Lillian S.;
787 words
...FROM HANOI TO HOLLYWOOD: The Vietnam War in American Film. Edited by Linda...but rewrite the history of the Vietnam War and then obsessively rewrite the...these cultural representations. The Vietnam War and American Culture, which examines...
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Moyar, Mark: Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965.(Book review)
History: Review of New Books;
January 1, 2007 ;
Baillergeon, Rick;
480 words
...Moyar, Mark Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 Cambridge: Cambridge...publication of books focused on the Vietnam War. This resurgence has provided readers...throughout Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965. It is a book readers...
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CLASSIC FILMS OF THE VIETNAM WAR.(Entertainment)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);
March 17, 1998 ;
Arnold, William;
787 words
...The Vietnam War movie cycle has come and gone, but the...unconsciousness. The Deer Hunter - The first of two Vietnam War movies to win the best picture Oscar...its longest war. Platoon - The second Vietnam War movie to win a best picture Oscar, this...
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Making history come alive with the nonfiction literature of the Vietnam...
The Clearing House;
January 1, 2003 ;
Johannessen, Larry R.;
787 words
......to these authentic voices of the Vietnam war. They come to us after the journalists...soldier, and his feelings about the Vietnam war. -- Peter Arnett Sometime in the...in teaching students about the Vietnam War and the literature that has emerged...
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The other side of grief: American women writers and the Vietnam War. (The...
CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction;
September 22, 1994 ;
Ryan, Maureen;
787 words
......variety of revisionary interpretations of the Vietnam War. As Thomas Myers has noted, the Vietnam War has become an intellectual industry in America...provocative recent study of gender and the Vietnam War, entitled The Remasculinization of America...
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America, the Vietnam War, and the World: Comparative and International...
Canadian Journal of History;
April 1, 2005 ;
Grey, Jeffrey;
787 words
...America, the Vietnam War, and the World: Comparative and International...is seemingly no end to books on the Vietnam War. Like that other most bitterly-contested...chapters. By seeking to re-locate the Vietnam War as an international issue, both for...
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