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There are 11 critical essays on Vietnam War.
Critical Essays on Vietnam War
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 The Vietnam War in Literature and Film
6,542 words, approx. 22 pages
 [Hölbling is the author of The Discourse of War in Recent American Novels (1987). In the following essay, he discusses the different types of literary responses the Vietnam war has engendered and relates them to American cultural myths and previous war literature.]
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The Vietnam War in Literature and Film
5,362 words, approx. 18 pages
[In the following excerpt, Fenn focuses on David Rabe's The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1968) and Streamers (1976) as he remarks on themes and structures common to Vietnam War dramas.]
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The Vietnam War in Literature and Film
5,111 words, approx. 17 pages
[An American educator and critic, Klinkowitz has written extensively on contemporary American fiction and edited Writing Under Fire: Stories of the Vietnam War (1978). In the essay below, he surveys novels published during American involvement in the Vietnam War and focuses his analysis on innovative approaches to plot and structure.]
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The Vietnam War in Literature and Film
4,880 words, approx. 16 pages
[In the essay below, Smith comments on the distinctive traits of Vietnam veteran poetry and analyzes the work of W. D. Ehrhart and Bruce Weigl.]
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The Vietnam War in Literature and Film
4,145 words, approx. 14 pages
[In the following essay, Whillock analyzes themes and images in Vietnam combat films and points out the disparities between these films and World War II combat films.]
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The Vietnam War in Literature and Film
3,909 words, approx. 13 pages
[In the following essay, Durham discusses point-of-view in three novels about Vietnam veterans—Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story, Philip Caputo's Indian Country, and Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country.]
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The Vietnam War in Literature and Film
2,852 words, approx. 10 pages
[Beidler is the author of American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam (1982). In the essay below, he argues that Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato and Stephen Wright's Meditations in Green are works of cultural revision that offer the "prospect of a new imaginative fiction of the American experience of Vietnam."]
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