Hollywood’s Imperial Wars: The Vietnam Generation and the American Myth of Heroic Continuity

Author
Not available
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Published
20240416
ISBN
9780806193755
ISBN registration area
English-language area (ISBN 978-0)

Description

How Hollywood helped create the American myth of heroic continuity, and how films revised that myth after the Vietnam War, is what Armando Jose Prats explores in in this volume. The book offers a new way of understanding the cultural and historical significance of Vietnam in relation to Hollywood’s earlier representations of Americans at war.