Response to the Film, "Platoon": An Analysis of the Vietnam Veteran as Journalist-Critic and "Priest.".

Baker, Scott

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Publication Date: 1990

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Response to the Film, "Platoon": An Analysis of the Vietnam Veteran as Journalist-Critic and "Priest."

Baker, Scott

Southern Communication Journal, v55 n2 p123-43 Win 1990

Explores the response of a Vietnam veteran to the film "Platoon." Notes that the film combines two voices, the veteran as journalist-critic and as priest, which mystify rather than explain the Vietnam experience. Argues that this form of priestly rhetoric serves an enduring hierarchy of power and knowledge. (KEH)

Descriptors: Audience Response, Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Cultural Influences, Film Criticism, Films, Metaphors, Popular Culture, Rhetorical Criticism, Vietnam Veterans, War

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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