Hollywood and Vietnam : John Wayne and Jane Fonda as Discourse -- "All the Animals come Out at Night" : Wietnam Meets Noir in Taxi driver -- Vietnam and the Hollywood Genre Film : Inversions of American Mythology in the Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now -- "charlie Don't Surf" : Race and Culture in the Vietnam War Films -- Finding a Language for Vietnam in the Action Adventure Genre -- Narrative Patterns and Mythic Trajectories in Mid-1980s Vietnam Movies -- Rambo's Vietnam and Kennedy's New Frontier -- Gardens of Stone, Platoon, and Hamburger Hill Ritual and Rememrance -- Primetime Television's Tour of Duty -- Women Next Door to War L china Beach -- male Bonding, Hollywood Orientalism, and the Repression of the Feminine in Kubrick's Full metal Jacket -- Eietam, Chaos, and the Dark Art of Improvisation -- Witness to War L Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic, and Born on the fourth of July -- teaching Vietnam : The Politics of Documentary

1. Television plays
2. American -- History and criticism
3. War films -- United States -- History and criticism
4. Vietnamese conflict
5. 1961-1975 -- Motion pictures and the conflict