How the War Was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam

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One way to analyze the intensely conflicting feelings Americans hold toward the Vietnam War is to see how the war has been portrayed through film. How the War Was Remembered is the first book to analyze Vietnam War films. Auster and Quart create a typology of these films based on their connection to sociohistorical currents such as the Wounded Hero, Superman, Hunter/Hero, and the Survivor. They also combine aesthetic analysis with a social, historical, and cultural critique. How the War Was Remembered by Albert Auster and Leonard Quart is a full-length treatment of filmic portrayals of the Vietnam War. From Samuel Fuller's China Gate to Francis Coppala's Apocalypse Now they examine the major works of an ever growing genre. The book is divided into four parts. The first deals with the genre, and the other three specific types within the genre. Notes, a bibliography, and an index complete the volume. Communication Booknotes One way to analyze the intensely conflicting feelings Americans hold toward the Vietnam War is to see how the war has been portrayed through film. How the War Was Remembered is the first book to analyze Vietnam War films, beginning with China Gate, and ending with Hamburger Hill. Included are analyses of all the major films about the Vietnam War, including Green Berets, The Deerhunter, Apocalypse Now, The Killing Fields, Rambo, Platoon, and Full Metal Jacket, and others. Auster and Quart create a typology of these films based on their connection to socio-historical currents such as the Wounded Hero, Superman, Hunter/Hero, and the Survivor. They also combine aesthetic analysis with a social, historical, and cultural critique.

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ALBERT AUSTER has taught at the College of Staten Island and Brooklyn College and an Associate of Cineaste magazine. He is the author of Actresses and Suffragists: Women in the American Theater: 1890-1920 and coauthor with Leonard Quart of American Film and Society. Since 1945, and has contributed to many other magazines. LEONARD QUART is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the College of Staten Island CUNY and is on the Editorial Board of Cineaste magazine. He is coauthor with Albert Auster of American Film and Society. Since 1945 and a contributor to a wide variety of film and general magazines.