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...Amanda Howell Copyright © 1992 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Susan Jeffords’s The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989) Amanda Howell We must ask more often how things...

...Jacinda S. Tran Abstract As the most documented war, “Vietnam” established visualizing infrastructures of search and destroy — the imperative to look in order to gather information and thereby inflict violence. This article considers Hanoi‐based artist Nguyễn Trinh Thi's short film Landscape Series...

... America's past experience of Vietnam. In 1984, William Broyles, creator of the television series China Beach, recalls such representations of gender and war in his statement in Esquire magazine that "war is for men, at some terrible level the closest thing to what childbirth is for women: the initiation...

... of what I am calling national memory in China Beach with this episode because “The Gift” perfectly typifies the series’ organizing anxiety-the impossibility of adequately remembering the Vietnam war-and it mobilizes the show’s most typical expression of that anxiety by narrativizing...

... Joker" (Matthew Modine), one of the recruits in Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket (1987), after he and his fellows have been processed through the micromanaged control-technologies of discipline, drill, and regimen• tation that here figure Marine Corps boot camp...

.... Amanda Howell is a graduate student in film at the University of Rochester. Her research focuses on representations of sexual difference in the Vietnam War film and their implications for current psychoanalytic and feminist film theory. Margaret Iversen teaches Art Theory in the Department...

... of the Vietnam War, growing politicization, and increased sexual freedom. Yoko Ono performed her Bag Piece in the hall. The red carpet of the re ned casino was covered with empty glasses and cigarette butts, and a fog of marijuana smoke hung as thick inside as the salty fog that covered the North...

... photos of the Vietnam war, folk dances, family portraits, beauty contests, school children, workers in a field, boat people, etc., with a series of increas- ingly stylized first-person dramatized monologues performed by Viet- namese women now living in the United States. Minh-ha uses non...

...: partially birthed fetuses, near-death experiencers, MIAs from the Vietnam War, immigrants, Holocaust survivors, youth gangs, transsexuals, junkies, Kevorkianists, those suffering from multiple personality disorder, and PWAs (persons with AIDS)-all these have been represented as pos- sessed...

....” No female spectator here . . . . I started college at the University of Maryland at the height of campus protests against the Vietnam War and quickly became involved in left wing and feminist organizing. The combination of the two was key: the personal was political but because the question...

... spectator here . . . . I started college at the University of Maryland at the height of campus protests against the Vietnam War and quickly became involved in left wing and feminist organizing. The combination of the two was key: the personal was political but because the question was how to weave...

... and the Vietnam War. No. 27; pp. 166-173. Iversen, Margaret Shaped by Discourse, Dispersed by Desire: Masquerade and Mary Kelly’s Interim. No. 27; pp 134-147. Jacobs, Lea Reformers and Spectators: The Film Education Movement in the Thirties. No. 22; pp...

... rationality—Brechtian distanciation over emotional engagement—became central to the structure of all his subsequent films. This film, Farocki’s first significant achievement, was both an indictment of Dow Chemi- cal’s production of Napalm B for the Vietnam War...

... A Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree,” which expressed a Vietnam soldier’s plea to his sweetheart to remember him while he was away (although popular sentiment traces the yellow ribbon custom at least to John Ford’s She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and even to Civil War custom). Thus histor...

..., his findings are consistent with my own. The Legend of the White-and-Yellow Black Man • 179 30. Desser, “The Martial Arts Film in the 1990s,” 106. 31. Susan Jeffords, The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War (Bloomington: Indiana University...

... was subsequently banned from practicing his craft anywhere in the world for more than three years. Animated as Ali's opposition to the Vietnam war was by his commitment to the Nation of Islam, it was motivated by more explicitly political forces than that. He regarded America's forays into south-east Asia...

... seventies, the time during which the German Women's Movement began to emerge. Anni has a child, leaves her husband, takes on professional responsibilities, moves into a collective apartment, and becomes involved in anti-Vietnam war activities. In a mixture of fiction...

... the Vietnam War. The death blow in what intellectuals came to call the end of “the season of politics” hit in a hostage standoff, the Asama lodge inci- dent.1 For weeks before the incident, members of the internation- alist Red Army had conducted elaborate confessional rituals that left several...

... IN COLOR” [Figure 11. Cut to August 1990, twenty-five years later. In response to an antici- pated Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, President George Bush mobilized the largest number of armed forces since the Vietnam War to stage a military blockade in the Middle East. The Louisiana Supreme...

... borrowed it from Susan Jeffords’s book on America and the Vietnam War, The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989). 77. Sander, “A Response to My Critics,” 86. 78...