Mythologizing the Vietnam War :: visual culture and mediated memory /

The Vietnam War is evolving from contemporary memory into history. Fifty years on, it still serves as a benchmark in the history of war reporting and in the representation of conflict in popular culture and historical memory. However, as contemporary culture tries to come to terms with the events an...

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Weitere Verfasser: Good, Jennifer (HerausgeberIn), Lowe, Paul, 1963- (HerausgeberIn), Lardinois, Brigitte (HerausgeberIn), Williams, Val, 1949- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung:The Vietnam War is evolving from contemporary memory into history. Fifty years on, it still serves as a benchmark in the history of war reporting and in the representation of conflict in popular culture and historical memory. However, as contemporary culture tries to come to terms with the events and their political, psychological and cultural implications, the 'real' Vietnam War has been appropriated and changed into a set of mythologies which implicate American and Vietnamese national identities specifically, and ideas of modern conflict more broadly, particularly in shaping the mediation of.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 179 pages)
ISBN:1322607648
9781322607641
9781443869485
1443869481