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Cowans, Jon. "A Deepening Disbelief: The American Movie Hero in Vietnam, 1958-1968." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 17, no. 4 (2010): 324–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187656111x564306.

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AbstractThree important films reveal changing American attitudes toward the Cold War in Southeast Asia in the years of growing U.S. involvement there: Joseph Mankiewicz's The Quiet American (1958), George Englund's The Ugly American (1963), and John Wayne's The Green Berets (1968). All three feature idealistic American heroes fighting communism in Vietnam – and, in the later two films, fighting American ignorance and apathy as well. Using some two dozen reviews in a wide range of periodicals, including daily newspapers outside of New York and Los Angeles, this article finds a growing skepticism about the mythology of the Cold War in Vietnam. Critics in 1958 supported the mission of fighting communism and the methods outlined in the film, but knew little about Vietnam. In 1963, critics were more pessimistic about America's methods and prospects in Vietnam but still overwhelmingly supported the mission. By 1968, a collapse of America's Cold War consensus became obvious as critics panned The Green Berets, a remarkable box-office success, deriding the filmmaking but also rejecting the film's ideology and even questioning the struggle against communism. We thus see a fundamental erosion of American belief in its own Cold War mythology just as the country was venturing deeper into war in Southeast Asia.

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Sylvester, Christine. "Curating and re-curating the American war in Vietnam." Security Dialogue 49, no. 3 (2017): 151–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010617733851.

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The American war in Vietnam killed 58,000 US military personnel and millions of people on the ground, creating a troubling war legacy that has been ‘resolved’ in the USA through state strategies to efface military mortalities. Drawing on Charlotte Heath-Kelly’s work addressing mortality denied or ignored in the field of international relations and that of Andrew Bacevich and Christian Appy on American militarism, I explore the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, as a site of war re-curations that refuse the effacement of mortality and disrupt the militarist myths that sustain it – namely, that America is renewed and revitalized through war, and that soldiers live on as American heroes when they sacrifice for the country. With the Vietnam Syndrome long since replaced by insistence on loving all soldiers, even if not all the country’s wars, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated to remembering those who were not publicly acknowledged for fighting and dying in America’s failed war. Assemblages of pictures, letters, and other items that a community of loss leaves at the Memorial re-curate the war by showing the lingering pain that war mortality inflicts on those who experience it decade upon decade. Taken together, the objects of war shown at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and collected each evening put mortality at the heart of war experience. The Memorial is therefore a key location of knowledge that challenges militarist appeals and state effacements in favor of what Viet Thanh Nguyen calls ‘just memory’ of war.

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Rollins, Peter C., John Carlos Rowe, Rick Berg, and Michael Anderegg. "The Vietnam War and American Culture." Journal of American History 79, no. 3 (1992): 1255. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2080951.

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James, David. "The Vietnam War and American Music." Social Text, no. 23 (1989): 122. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/466424.

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Cottrell, Robert. "The Vietnam War and American Culture." History: Reviews of New Books 20, no. 3 (1992): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.1992.9949631.

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Schoenwald, Jonathan M. "The Vietnam War in American Childhood." Journal of American History 108, no. 1 (2021): 201–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaab038.

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Lucks, Daniel. "African American soldiers and the Vietnam War: no more Vietnams." Sixties 10, no. 2 (2017): 196–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17541328.2017.1303111.

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Nguyen, Hiep Van, and Thinh Van Pham. "American war of aggression in Vietnam (1954-1975) and the beginning of disputes over the East Sea." Science and Technology Development Journal 17, no. 2 (2014): 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.32508/stdj.v17i2.1321.

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Since the Second World War until now, every time when a large hole of power arises in the East Sea, China, by its force, is still seeking to illegally occupy the seas and the islands that do not belong to her. In the period of 1954 - 1975, America played a big role in international relations and America is also the direct invader encroaching Vietnam. The American war in Vietnam created many opportunities for China to obtain the right to control the Spratlys and Paracel Islands of Vietnam. America carried out her ambitions of encroachment and continuously caused disputes over the East Sea.

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Fidler, Rory. "LBJ, LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Ignore Today?" Constellations 2, no. 2 (2011): 133–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/cons10501.

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The actual effectiveness of the American anti-war movement from 1964-68 and its attempts to sway the policy of President Johnson's administration on the topic of the Vietnam War is debatable. While popular myth has exaggerated the role of protestors in stopping the war, the movement failed to alter state policy on the war in any serious fashion. The anti-war movement could not develop a universal policy of their aims, differing from a gradual exit from Vietnam to a complete anarchist overthrow of the American system, and as such were unable to lobby the government effectively. Within the war itself, however, the Johnson administration and the United States Military encountered a stronger stimulus to reconsider their involvement: the inability to adapt to a guerilla war, the immense man power and resources required to ensure victory, and ultimately the communist Tet offensive of 1968 pushing American forces back. When President Johnson did seek to negotiate with North Vietnam at the end of his term, it was because America had simply failed to beat the Vietcong.

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POWELL, IRENA. "Japanese Writer in Vietnam: The Two Wars of Kaiko Ken (1931-89)." Modern Asian Studies 32, no. 1 (1998): 219–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x98002741.

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Our image and knowledge of the Vietnam war come predominantly from American sources, which all stress the unusual character of that war. From the despatch of the first combat units to Vietnam in 1960 to the fall of Saigon and the takeover by the North Vietnamese in 1975, it was America's longest war. American literature from Vietnam depicts the war as being waged not only against the enemy (particularly as it was often difficult to determine who and where the enemy was) but also against the elements — heat, rain, jungle, mosquitoes, leeches, dust and mud. The moral confusion surrounding this war and the disillusionment among the soldiers are well documented and portrayed in numerous films and stories. In examining, therefore, Japanese writing on the Vietnam war, it seemed sensible to concentrate on those aspects which were different, not only in order not to repeat the obvious, but also in the hope of bringing into focus the different perspective on the conflict which this writing offers.

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