Book, Adair, Gilbert, Vietnam on Film: From the Green Berets to Apocalypse Now. (Copy 2), 1981

Physical description

The book explores the changes in attitude of Americans towards the Vietnam War from the first film made, The Green Berets to Apocalypse Now & many other films in between (nearly 70).

Summary

When the long-awaited Apocalypse Now exploded into public consciousness the movie business had completed a 180 degree turn. For many Francis Ford Coppola's mammoth project, though flawed, was the most savage indictment of the Vietnam War yet - a vision of harrowing and mindless carnage in which threr were only victims.

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