Vietnam Images: War and Representation

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-9
American Paramilitary Culture and the Reconstitution of the Vietnam War....Pages 10-42
American Myths and the Impact of the Vietnam War: Revisionism in Foreign Policy and Popular Cinema in the 1980s....Pages 43-56
Black Music and the Vietnam War....Pages 57-68
Vietnam, Fine Art and the Culture Industry....Pages 69-85
Flight Controls: The Social History of the Helicopter as a Symbol of Vietnam....Pages 86-111
Killingly Funny: US Posters of the Vietnam Era....Pages 112-122
Literary Sense-Making: American Vietnam Fiction....Pages 123-140
‘After our War’: John Balaban’s Poetic Images of Vietnam....Pages 141-152
History Lessons: Platoon....Pages 153-159
‘The Real Thing’: New Images of Vietnam in American Comic Books....Pages 160-170
Image and Context: The Production and Reproduction of The Execution of a VC Suspect by Eddie Adams....Pages 171-183
Rambo: American Adam, Anarchist and Archetypal Frontier Hero....Pages 184-195
Eros and Thanatos: An Analysis of the Vietnam Memorial....Pages 196-204
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Authority and Gender in Cultural Representation....Pages 205-210
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Ideological Implications....Pages 211-220
Back Matter....Pages 221-224