Reflections, Receptions, and Reactions: Rethinking Vietnam War (Survey of Scholarship, Films, and Movements)

Sciknow Publications Ltd. Open Journal of Social Science Research OJSSR 2013, 1(9):226-237

12 Pages Posted: 19 Jun 2017

Date Written: June 16, 2017

Abstract

"Reflections, Receptions, and Reactions: Rethinking Vietnam War" offers a survey of Vietnam War scholarship, documentary films, and other data about the antiwar movements. The study examines both balance and bias in scholarship and films portraying the War to give an insight into the War. It evaluates the quality of the available research papers and documentary films on different aspects of the War from war ideology to trauma in veterans, war time music, casualties and protests in the US, and war effects like beggary and prostitution in Vietnam, providing an overall synthesis and evaluation of the scholarship. The survey identifies the focus of each research paper and locates similarities and dissimilarities in the works of different authors, evaluating the quality of the individual and collective scholarship. It allows the reader to hear different voices, understand individual focuses, and evaluate the ideology of war and enemy in general and Vietnam in particular. The survey of the Vietnam War scholarship challenges the ideology of wars in the name of peace as it invariably discusses death, desolation, and destruction and the trauma of the War.

Keywords: Vietnam War Scholarship and Films, Rethinking Vietnam War, American GIs and Veterans from Vietnam, American Innocence Versus Ideology of War, Media Bias in War Narratives

JEL Classification: Z19

Suggested Citation

Rizvi, Wajiha Raza, Reflections, Receptions, and Reactions: Rethinking Vietnam War (Survey of Scholarship, Films, and Movements) (June 16, 2017). Sciknow Publications Ltd. Open Journal of Social Science Research OJSSR 2013, 1(9):226-237, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2987792

Wajiha Raza Rizvi (Contact Author)

Film Museum Society Pakistan ( email )

20A TECH Society
Canal Bank
Lahore, 54590
Pakistan
+923219451997 (Phone)

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