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Friendly Fire: American Images of the Vietnam War
Katherine Kinney
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Description for Friendly Fire: American Images of the Vietnam War
Paperback. Through the use of evidence from the film and popular fiction of Vietnam, Katherine Kinney draws a picture of a nation politically, culturally, and socially divided, and a war that has been memorialized as a contested site for art, media, politics, and ideology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; HBJF; HBJK; HBWS2; JFCX; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 361. Paperback in good to very good condition. Some shelf wear.
Friendly Fire, in this instance, refers not merely to a tragic error of war, witnessed at least as much in Vietnam as in American wars before and since - it also refers, metaphorically, to America's war with itself during the Vietnam years. Starting from this point, Kinney's book considers the concept of 'friendly fire' from multiple vantage points, and portrays the Vietnam age as a crucible where America's cohesive image of itself shattered - pitting soldiers against superiors, doves against hawks, feminism against patriarchy, racial fear against racial tolerance. Through the use of extensive evidence from the film and popular ... Read more
Friendly Fire, in this instance, refers not merely to a tragic error of war, witnessed at least as much in Vietnam as in American wars before and since - it also refers, metaphorically, to America's war with itself during the Vietnam years. Starting from this point, Kinney's book considers the concept of 'friendly fire' from multiple vantage points, and portrays the Vietnam age as a crucible where America's cohesive image of itself shattered - pitting soldiers against superiors, doves against hawks, feminism against patriarchy, racial fear against racial tolerance. Through the use of extensive evidence from the film and popular ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
Used, Very Good
Weight
360g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195141962
SKU
KRF0020488
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Ref
99-1
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