The Vietnam War and American Culture: The Vietnam War and American Culture

By John Carlos Rowe

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231067321
• ISBN13: 9780231067324
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"