The Vietnam War Through Film

This book, through studies of eight feature films, each concerned with a key stage of the Vietnam War, provides extremely valuable insights on the nature of the Vietnam War. It argues that films, like any historical source, are vehicles for understanding history. Each chapter examines a particular film as an aesthetic object, exploring the presentation and interpretation of key themes in the war and discussing how history is made: how historians select and interpret material from a range of sources and how history is not fully comprehensive nor concerned just with accurate portrayal. The book provides an original and imaginative way of teaching and understanding the Vietnam War.