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The Frontier Hero in Vietnam - Reconstruction of a Myth

Author : Henrik Brendel
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656128782
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book The Frontier Hero in Vietnam - Reconstruction of a Myth written by Henrik Brendel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject History - America, grade: 1,0, University of Cape Town (Department of Historical Studies ), course: Hollywood & the Vietnam War, language: English, abstract: In terms of methodology it will be worthwhile first to take a closer look at the theory of collective memory in order to understand its relevance for a nation's self-understanding and the way that society's individual members rely on it. In a next step, the concepts of Turner's frontier myth thesis as well as Kennedy's New Frontier will be outlined in order to point out the contents of the nation's mythology and to determine elements to look out for in films. As we will see, the figure of the individual frontier hero will be of paramount importance. Finally, the main part will focus on the way in which the U.S. frontier myth and particularly the frontier hero actually figure within some Hollywood representations of the war. What is the appearance of the frontier heroes and what experiences do they make on the New Frontier in Vietnam? How can these experiences be characterized and set against the traditional qualities of the frontier myth? Within the framework of this paper, the choice of films must necessarily be exemplary. The three films that will be discussed here are among the most widely distributed films dealing with the Vietnam War. Moreover, as I hope to demonstrate in this paper, they are exemplary for three different ways of responding to the threat that this war posed to the frontier myth: its assertion, its transformation and its dismissal.

American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam

Author : John Hellmann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231515382
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam written by John Hellmann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1989-11-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam

Killing the Indian Maiden

Author : M. Marubbio
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081312414X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Killing the Indian Maiden written by M. Marubbio and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killing the Indian Maiden examines the fascinating and often disturbing portrayal of Native American women in film. M. Elise Marubbio examines the sacrificial role in which a young Native woman allies herself with a white male hero and dies as a result of that choice. In studying thirty-four Hollywood films from the silent period to the present, she draws upon theories of colonization, gender, race, and film studies to ground her analysis in broader historical and sociopolitical context and to help answer the question, “What does it mean to be an American?” The book reveals a cultural iconography embedded in the American psyche. As such, the Native American woman is a racialized and sexualized other. A conquerable body, she represents both the seductions and the dangers of the American frontier and the Manifest Destiny of the American nation to master it.

Projecting the Shadow

Author : Janice Hocker Rushing
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226731667
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Projecting the Shadow written by Janice Hocker Rushing and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgements Introduction 1: The Intellectual Landscape 2: The Transmodern Frontier 3: The Hunter Myth 4: Jaws: Faces of the Shadow 5: The Deer Hunter: The End of Innocence 6: The Manchurian Candidate: The Human as Weapon 7: Blade Runner: On the Edge 8: The Terminator: Future-Perfect Tense 9: Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Effacing the ShadowConclusion Notes Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

American Exceptionalism

Author : Deborah L. Madsen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578061082
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book American Exceptionalism written by Deborah L. Madsen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Exceptionalism provides an accessible yet comprehensive historical account of one of the most important concepts underlying modern theories of American cultural identity. Deborah Madsen charts the contribution of exceptionalism to the evolution of the United States as an ideological and geographical entity from 1620 to the present day. She explains how this sense of spiritual and political destiny has shaped American culture and how it has promoted exciting counter arguments from Native American and Chicano perspectives and in the contemporary writings of authors such as Thomas Pynchon and Toni Morrison.

To Reason Why

Author : Jeffrey P. Kimball
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597523879
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book To Reason Why written by Jeffrey P. Kimball and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the past and continuing debate over the causes of United States involvement in the Vietnam War. It brings together readings that best exemplify the widely varying answers that historians, political scientists, social scientists, policymakers, journalists, and novelists have given to the essential question of American involvement: why did the U.S. intervene diplomatically and militarily in Vietnam between 1945 and 1975?Ó --from the Preface To Reason Why breaks new ground in covering and analyzing this issue. Kimball has gathered together thirty-eight readings -- including speeches, interviews, and articles -- that best exemplify the conflicting ideas and theories about the U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Among these thirty-eight readings are excerpts from David Halberstam, Daniel Ellsberg, Frances FitzGerald, Henry Kissinger, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

Sartre's Life, Times and Vision du Monde

Author : William L. McBride
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135631549
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Sartre's Life, Times and Vision du Monde written by William L. McBride and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William L. McBride Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, is co-founder of the North American Sartre Society, and the first chairperson of its executive board. His most recent publications include Social and Political Philosophy and Sartre's Political Theory. He was recently named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Government, and has served as Chairperson of the Committee on International Cooperation of the American Philosophical Association and as President of the Societe Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Francaise.

Challenging Genres

Author : Paul L. Thomas
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 946091361X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Challenging Genres written by Paul L. Thomas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging Genres: Comic Books and Graphic Novels offers educators, students, parents, and comic book readers and collectors a comprehensive exploration of comics/graphic novels as a challenging genre/medium.

The Removes

Author : Tatjana Soli
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 0374715971
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Removes written by Tatjana Soli and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first wave of pioneers travel westward to settle the American frontier, two women discover their inner strength when their lives are irrevocably changed by the hardship of the wild west in The Removes, a historical novel from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Tatjana Soli. Spanning the years of the first great settlement of the West, The Removes tells the intertwining stories of fifteen-year-old Anne Cummins, frontierswoman Libbie Custer, and Libbie’s husband, the Civil War hero George Armstrong Custer. When Anne survives a surprise attack on her family’s homestead, she is thrust into a difficult life she never anticipated—living among the Cheyenne as both a captive and, eventually, a member of the tribe. Libbie, too, is thrown into a brutal, unexpected life when she marries Custer. They move to the territories with the U.S. Army, where Libbie is challenged daily and her worldview expanded: the pampered daughter of a small-town judge, she transforms into a daring camp follower. But when what Anne and Libbie have come to know—self-reliance, freedom, danger—is suddenly altered through tragedy and loss, they realize how indelibly shaped they are by life on the treacherous, extraordinary American plains. With taut, suspenseful writing, Tatjana Soli tells the exhilarating stories of Libbie and Anne, who have grown like weeds into women unwilling to be restrained by the strictures governing nineteenth-century society. The Removes is a powerful, transporting novel about the addictive intensity and freedom of the American frontier.

Aryan Cowboys

Author : Evelyn A. Schlatter
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292714718
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Aryan Cowboys written by Evelyn A. Schlatter and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn Schlatter's startling analysis describes how many of the new white supremacist groups in the [American] West have co-opted the region's mythology and environment based on longstanding beliefs about American character and Manifest Destiny to shape an organic, home-grown movement. Dissatisfied with the urbanized, culturally progressive coasts, disenfranchised by affirmative action and immigration, white supremacists have found new hope in the old ideal of the West as a land of opportunity waiting to be settled by self-reliant traditional families. -- From PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION.

Portrait of America: From Reconstruction to the present

Author : Stephen B. Oates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of America: From Reconstruction to the present written by Stephen B. Oates and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of two volumes which take a biographical approach to portray American history as the story of real people who actually lived, struggled, enjoyed triumphs and suffered failures. The articles in each chapter provide different perspectives on a period or historical question, and each selection has been chosen for its literary merit, its importance to historical scholarship, and its potential for exciting students' interest.

Remembering Viet Nam

Author : Regula Fuchs
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783034305693
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Viet Nam written by Regula Fuchs and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does American culture deal with its memories of the Vietnam War and what role does literature play in this process? Remembering Viet Nam is a fascinating exploration of the ways in which authors of Vietnam War literature represent American cultural memory in their writings. The analysis is based on a wide array of sources including historical, political, cultural and literary studies as well as works on trauma. It begins with an examination of American foundation myths - their normative, formative and, most of all, their bonding nature - and the role institutions such as the military and the media play in upholding these myths. The study then considers the soldiers' and war veterans' minds and bodies and the stories they tell as key sites in the debates over the war's place in American cultural memory. The multilayered approach of Remembering Viet Nam allows the investigation of Vietnam War literature in its whole breadth including the debates instigated by the works examined and the influence these narratives themselves have on American cultural memory. Most importantly, the analysis uncovers why American foundation myths - despite their being thoroughly questioned and even exposed as cultural inventions by authors and reviewers of Vietnam War literature - can still retain their power within American society.

Search and Clear

Author : William J. Searle
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879724290
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book Search and Clear written by William J. Searle and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Search and Clear demonstrates that the seeds of war were implicit in American culture, distinguishes between literature spawned by Vietnam and that of other conflicts, reviews the literary merits of works both well and little known, and explores the assumptions behind and the persistence of stereotypes associated with the consequences of the Vietnam War. It examines the role of women in fiction, the importance of gender in Vietnam representation, and the mythic patterns in Oliver Stone's Platoon. Essayists sharply scrutinize American values, conduct, and conscience as they are revealed in the craft of Tim O'Brien, Philip Caputo, Michael Herr, Stephen Wright, David Rabe, Bruce Weigl, and others.

Gunfighter Nation

Author : Richard Slotkin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806130316
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Gunfighter Nation written by Richard Slotkin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing

The Legacy of The X-Files

Author : James Fenwick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501387626
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of The X-Files written by James Fenwick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legacy of The X-Files examines the content and production of the show, its reception, its use of legend and folklore, its contemporary resonance in politics and society of the 21st century, and its impact and legacy on film, television, the Internet and beyond. Having converged with the early widespread use of the Internet, The X-Files became a cultural touchstone of the 1990s, transforming from a cult TV show into a pop cultural phenomenon by the end of the decade. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The X-Files, this collection examines the content and production of the show, its reception, its use of legend and folklore, its contemporary resonance in politics and society of the 21st century, and its impact and legacy on film, television, the Internet and beyond. The series' themes of government mistrust, conspiracy, folklore, UFOlogy, and faith are dissected and applied to how the show spirituality resonated with post-Cold War Western society. Contributors to this collection discuss the wide-ranging impact of the television show in popular culture, from Mulder and Scully 'shippers' to the show's slogan entering the contemporary lexicon. The Legacy of The X-Files serves as an all-encompassing, multi-disciplinary, contemporary account of The X-Files, reflecting upon critical, historical, political, and social contexts, and featuring an in-depth and comprehensive introduction making it a vital work for researchers and students alike.

The Columbia Companion to American History on Film

Author : Peter C. Rollins
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231508395
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Companion to American History on Film written by Peter C. Rollins and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-24 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans'sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In important films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Roots (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Saving Private Ryan (1998), how much is entertainment and how much is rooted in historical fact? In The Columbia Companion to American History on Film, more than seventy scholars consider the gap between history and Hollywood. They examine how filmmakers have presented and interpreted the most important events, topics, eras, and figures in the American past, often comparing the film versions of events with the interpretations of the best historians who have explored the topic. Divided into eight broad categories—Eras; Wars and Other Major Events; Notable People; Groups; Institutions and Movements; Places; Themes and Topics; and Myths and Heroes—the volume features extensive cross-references, a filmography (of discussed and relevant films), notes, and a bibliography of selected historical works on each subject. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film is also an important resource for teachers, with extensive information for research or for course development appropriate for both high school and college students. Though each essay reflects the unique body of film and print works covering the subject at hand, every essay addresses several fundamental questions: What are the key films on this topic? What sources did the filmmaker use, and how did the film deviate (or remain true to) its sources? How have film interpretations of a particular historical topic changed, and what sorts of factors—technological, social, political, historiographical—have affected their evolution? Have filmmakers altered the historical record with a view to enhancing drama or to enhance the "truth" of their putative message?

A Great Disorder

Author : Richard Slotkin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674292383
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book A Great Disorder written by Richard Slotkin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culture wars are pitting us against each other with a vitriol that is fueling outright violence. Slotkin looks to the foundational myths that have shaped American identity—the Frontier, the Founding, the Civil War (Emancipation and the Lost Cause), and the Good War—and reveals why they are bringing the US to the brink of an existential crisis.