Rick Berg Editors (7 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. BH5 - An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in black wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. This is a title in the publisher's Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms. A collection of material that examines both how American culture has tried to rewrite the history of the Vietnam War as well as reinterpreting a number of established myths about "American character" and life. The contributions include "The Vietnam War and American Memory" by Rick Berg and John Carlos Rowe, "Visions of Righteousness" by Noam Chomsky, "Revisionist Vietnam History" by Stephen Vlastos, "Missing in Action: Women Warriors in Vietnam" by Carol Lynn Mithers, "Military Propaganda: Defense Department Films from World War II and Vietnam" by Claudia Springer, "Losing Vietnam: Covering the War in an Age of Technology" by Rick Berg, "Eyewitness: Documentary Styles in the American Representations of Vietnam" by John Carlos Rowe, "Remembering Vietnam" by MIchael Clark, "Tattoos, Scars, Diaries, and Writing Masculinity" by Susan Jeffords, "The Vietnam War and American Music" by David Jones," and Poetry by W. D. Ehrhart. Notes on contributors, indexed, 275p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 276pp. Sparsely illustrated. Indexed. Laminated card covers (with very gentle edge wear). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Beginning with an essay by Noam Chomsky and ending with five poems by W D Ehrhart, The Vietnam War and American Culture examines how American culture has tried to rewrite the history of the Vietnam war and reinterprets a number of myths about American character and life associated with its military and diplomatic involvement with Vietnam.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Fine in wrappers, a paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (xv) 387 pp. Green cloth lettered in silver on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white photographs. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Chapters are: INTRODUCTION: America's Vietnam War Films: Marching Toward Denial by Linda Dittmar and Gene Michaud. ONE: Wide Angles: History in the Remaking: Historical Memory Film and the Vietnam Era by Michael Klein; Losing Vietnam: Covering the War in an Age of Technology by Rick Berg; The War about the War: Vietnam Films and American Myth by Leo Cawley; They Were Called and They Went: The Political Rehabilitation of the Vietnam Veteran by Harry W. Haines. TWO: Close-ups: Representation in Detail: Never Having to Say You're Sorry: Rambo's Rewriting of the Vietnam War by Gaylyn Studlar and David Desser; Rambo: Getting to Win This Time by Gregory A. Waller; Missing in Action: The Vietnam Construction of the Movie Star by Tony Williams; The Politics of Ambivalence: Apocalypse Now as Prowar and Antiwar Film by Frank P. Tomasulo; The Deer Hunter: Superman in Vietnam by Leonard Quart. THREE: Other Frames: Subtext and Difference: The Colonialist Subtext in Platoon by Clyde Taylor; Night of the Living Dead: A Horror Film about the Horrors of the Vietnam Era by Sumiko Higashi; Boys Will Be Men: Oedipal Drama in Coming Home by Michael Selig; Reproducing Fathers: Gender and the Vietnam War in U.S. Culture by Susan Jeffords; Portrait of a Disabled Vietnam Veteran: Alex Cutter of Cutter's Way by Martin F. Norden; Strange Hells: Hollywood in Search of America's Lost War by Keven Bowen. FOUR: Other Forms: Documenting the Vietnam War by David E. James; Imaging the Other: Representations of Vietnam in Sixties Political Documentary by Michael Renov; We Aren't on the Wrong Side - We ARE the Wrong Side: Peter Davis Targets American Hearts and Minds by David Grosser; Dear America: Transparency Authority and Interpretation in a Vietnam War Documentary by Barry Dornfeld; followed by: Appendix A: Chronology: The United States Vietnam and American Film; Appendix B: Selected Filmography: The Vietnam War on Film; and an index. Size: 8vo. Book. …