عنوان

An intertextual analysis of Vietnam war films and US presidential speeches

شماره

TLets540884

عنوان اصلي

An intertextual analysis of Vietnam war films and US presidential speeches

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Rowley, Christina

نام ساير پديدآوران

Weldes, Jutta ; Squires, Judith

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Bristol

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2010

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ed.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Bristol

امتياز متن

2010

متن يادداشت

Elite articulations of state policy and popular cultural artefacts both constructcommon sense about world politics, yet the connections between 'low' cultural texts,such as war films, and 'high' policy discourses are often ignored, obscured anddenied within IR. In this thesis I conduct an intertextual analysis of genderedrepresentations of the Vietnam War and US identity in Vietnam War films and in USpresidential speeches. I compare the representations articulated in three popularfilms-The Deer Hunter, Rambo: First Blood, Part 11 and Forrest Gump-with thosearticulated by Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush (Senior) and Clinton in inauguraland State of the Union addresses (1975-1996), in order to investigate whether andhow transformations in these discourses occurred during this period. I have selectedthese texts not because they are a priori expected to be good examples ofintertextuality but, rather, because they are popular films and because the speechesare delivered frequently and regularly over time. I examine these discourses over atwenty-year period in order to examine intertextuality as an ongoing process ratherthan as an isolated phenomenon or as a feature of one particular 'anomalous' era.The original contributions of this project are thus to be found in the research designas well as in the empirical analysis.The speeches and films display a remarkable degree of homogeneity in theirrepresentations. In all three films, and in the speeches of all five presidents, theVietnam veteran is valorised. However, the gendered nature of these representationschanges over time. The binaries underpinning the narrative logic of The Deer Hunterare also iterated in the expressions of trauma and renewal found in Ford and Carter'sspeeches; Rambo IPs account of how and why the US 'lost' in Vietnam resonates withReagan's articulations; and the models of masculinity and femininity found in ForrestGump find their counterparts in the gendered representations Bush and Clintondeploy to articulate problems in contemporary domestic US society. Divergencesbetween presidents' rhetoric and cinematic representations are also identified, suchas the contrast between Rambo's hypermasculinity as based on bodily strength andPresident Reagan's enthusiastic promotion of technology. I conclude by arguing thatthe act of 'reading together' these seemingly discrete discourses provides us with aricher and more nuanced understanding of how the construction of identity, foreignpolicy and world politics occurs than does the analysis of either policy articulations orpopular culture in isolation

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Rowley, Christina

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Squires, Judith

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Weldes, Jutta

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Bristol

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y