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The significant Vietnam War film genre deserves better treatment than this. Overburdened with excessive plot synopses and undermined by a succession of rather pedestrian critical observations, the narrative dutifully marches through the oeuvre from French Indochina to 1993's Heaven and Earth. The best sections describe events behind the scenes, such as Francis Ford Coppola's struggle to produce Apocalypse Now, and biographical background on the screenwriters-whether they actually served in Vietnam, for instance. Appended are three handy filmographies, one of which arranges the films chronologically. The publisher has made important contributions to Vietnam War scholarship, including the excellent A-to-Z dictionary, Vietnam War Films: Over Six Hundred Feature, Made-for-TV, Pilot & Short Movies 1939-72 (McFarland & Co., 1994). However, the present monograph is not among their best efforts. The definitive study is still From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American film (LJ 2/15/91).
Richard W. Grefrath, Univ. of Nevada Lib., Reno
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
Richard W. Grefrath, Univ. of Nevada Lib., Reno
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
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Jeremy M. Devine shows off an encyclopedic knowledge of Vietnam War films in [this book]. The author, a motion picture industry executive, fills this excellent book with detailed summaries of Vietnam films, from the obscure to the best known. Devine tells his tale chronologically. In addition to his detailed plot summaries, he offers brief analyses, focusing on how the various films relate to historical events at the time they were released. He also connects these events to issues such as the draft, the antiwar movement, POWs, and veterans' readjustment problems. The two appendices, which list Vietnam films alphabetically and chronologically, are valuable resources. . . . [A] wide-ranging, inclusive, and insightful book. (VVA Veteran )
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Very informative, Devine demostrates superior knowledge.,
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This review is from: Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second: A Critical and Thematic Analysis of Over 400 Films About the Vietnam War (Texas Film Studies Series) (Paperback)
Upon reading this book for a class assignment, I was not very interested in the topic. However, after reading this informative masterpiece my interest in the vietnam era grew. I found this book to be very well written, and it fully shows the diversity in films made about the war.
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if you want the complete history this has it all outstanding,
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This review is from: Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second: A Critical and Thematic Analysis of Over 350 Films about the Vietnam War (Library Binding)
A complete guide to an era of turmoil. Nobody realized the amount written on this subject. This book brings it all together and discusses the individual movies.
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Outstanding presentation of the conflict!,
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This review is from: Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second: A Critical and Thematic Analysis of Over 400 Films About the Vietnam War (Texas Film Studies Series) (Paperback)
Devine's book is superb. The best book that I have come across on the topic of Vietnam (concerning film and history). In fact my Sr. Thesis was on the similar topic of Hollywood's Vietnam War films, and Devine's book was one of my main sources of information, context, and critique. He really covers EVERYTHING. Obviously I had to limit what i was covering in my thesis, but there is no shortage of information in Devine's book.
While writing a film critique for an independent study course on Problem Films of the 1970s i looked into Devine's book again, and found that a 1968 film (Targets by Peter Bogdonovich) fits the profile of a deranged Vietnam Veteran flick. I never stop learning from this guy!! As a film studies/history student, this book is considered by me to be one of the very best. I strongly reccomend it!
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