Albert Auster and Leonard Quart, How the War Was Remembered: Hollywood &Vietnam. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1988.

The first chapter provides historical background on war films in general; the rest of the book identifies major themes in Vietnam War movies.

Loren Baritz, Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Baritz argues that Americans' idealism and belief in the invincibility and moral supremacy of the United States were responsible for the Vietnam War.

Les Cleveland, Dark Laughter: War in Song and Popular Culture. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.

Cleveland draws on military songs, folk songs, and popular music from World War I through Vietnam to explore the relationships between military life and society.

Gary Crowdus, ed., A Political Companion to American Film. Chicago: Lakeview Press, 1994.

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