Concealment and Disclosure
From "Birth of a Nation" to the Vietnam War Film
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6299232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Doug Williams (Department of Political Studies at Queen's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-47 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-5121 • E-ISSN: 1460-373X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/019251219101200104 |
| OpenAlex | W2103400761 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article contends that film and other forms of popular culture place enormously sensitive resources for practical reasoning at the disposal of students of politics and society. After an historical exploration of the role of cinematic representations of war and its aftermath in the development of American political culture, the article analyzes an increasingly complex, philosophically disturbing, and ideologically ambiva lent cinematic genre of the past two decades, films concerned with the American war in Vietnam. While Hollywood films about the Vietnam war to date have disclosed the psychological and subjective dimensions and the toll the war took, they have systematically concealed the tougher, more important moral and political lessons that that tragedy has to teach us. As a form of mass entertainment, films may not exist primarily to help teach us such painful lessons; that social science and political theory can show us that they might is one of this article's animating hopes
Aesthetics · Entertainment · Hollywood · Ideology · Mass media · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Social science · Sociology · Tragedy (event · Vietnam War · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law
Movie-made America
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Home from the War
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The lay of the land
Regeneration through violence
The New Vietnam Films
Planning a Tragedy
Anatomy of a war
The emerging Japanese superstate
World War II and the American Film
Screening out the past
Ideology as Dystopia
The Great War and Modern Memory
Changing Images of the Warrior Hero in America
"The "Uncensored War
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2022 (32) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |