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War in Literature: Vietnam War
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[Studies how gender is represented in the personal narratives, literature, and film of the Vietnam War and the effects these representations had on American male sexuality and masculinity. Refers to more than a dozen films and television programs. Bibliography and index]
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Serious negotiations to end the war began after U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's decision not to seek reelection in 1968. Contacts between North Vietnam and the United States in Paris in 1968 were expanded in 1969 to include South Vietnam and the NLF. The United States, under the leadership of President Richard M. Nixon, altered its tactics to combine U.S. troop withdrawals with intensified bombing and the invasion of Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia (1970).
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[Vietnam War inhibited Hollywood production of all war films, but eight new WWII films are now in production as well as films on other wars. Apocalypse now is the only Vietnam War film cited in the latter group]
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Someone—perhaps novelist George Orwell, journalist Walter Lippmann, or British prime minister Winston Churchill—coined the phrase “Cold War” for “a prolonged twilight struggle” (as George Kennan deemed it) punctuated with periods of hot war, in Korea and in Vietnam. Whoever named it, the Cold War period, from about 1946 until (some think) the early 1990s, was a period that for the most part it lived up to its name: “an uneasy armed peace with jittery alerts, cloak and dagger operations, and proxy skirmishes between client states.” It was ... a period of literary experimentation, advances (and retreats) in cinema, theoretical speculations (e.g., Mikhail Bakhtin), fantasy, and, critically, a reshaping of culture—particularly American culture—that defines 21st century politics and art as surely as it did mid 20th century politics and art.
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It is clear that the Vietnam War is being taught, either as a major segment or as an entire course, in many hundreds of the over 2000 junior and senior colleges and universities in America. Many campuses have several Vietnam courses taught in different departments. For a time, Vietnam was the hottest growing area of teaching on college campuses. That growth rate seems to have peaked; ... courses on the 1960s and/or the Vietnam War still remain a very popular option for special topics offerings in honors programs or other such venues. More importantly, permanent Vietnam courses are ensconced in the regular curriculum in several disciplines in colleges across the country.
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"The lessons, legacies, and implications for future conflicts are the purpose of this collection of work on The American War in Vietnam. This is an assemblage of ten superb papers which outline why America failed in Vietnam. . . . Military readers will find the section on How the War Was Fought especially interesting in that the authors suggest that had we pursued a more exhaustive air campaign against the North early in the war, then it could have been won. . . . This book is for serious students of the Vietnam War, for historians looking for a complete picture, it has a superb bibliography, and the authors have outstanding credentials." Armor
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