Panel for Society for Cinema Studies 2003 Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 6-9, 2003
Title: Where's the Vietnam in the Vietnam War?
Abstract: The spate of Vietnam War films from the 1980s and the
resulting film criticism have focused mostly on the effects of the
war on Americans--whether vets, their families, anti-war protesters,
politicians, or the nation in general. What has remained
conscpicuously absent are representations and analyses of Vietnam
itself: the country and its people. Rather than presuming to make
present the absence of Vietnamese bodies, we hope to investigate the
nature of this lacunae itself, the un-Vietnamization of the
war--focusing on the ways that Vietnam and the Vietnamese are
precisely made invisible in representations of the war on television
and in film.
Possible topics:
metaphoric displacements of the Vietnamese body in Hollywood film
symbolic uses of the Vietnamese body in TV new
documentaries that try to represent an "alternative" view of the
Vietnam War (i.e. The Year of the Pig, Hearts and Minds) and how they
use/misuse the Vietnamese
ramifications of the representation of Vietnam on Iraqis in the Gulf
War, Arabs in Afghanistan, etc.
NO papers on Rambo, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, etc.
Send queries and/or 250-word abstracts to
schong2@socrates.berkeley.edu by Sept. 5.
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