In addition to the usual war film books, there's an old (and very
old-fashioned) book called Guts and Glory: Great American War Movies by
Lawrence H Suid. Also: take a look at the last two chapters of John
Hellman's American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam look at The Deer Hunter,
Apocalypse Now and Star Wars.

Gene Walz
Film Studies
U of MB

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