Anti-Vietnam War Films

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"This paper will be concerned with the Vietnam War and the anti-war film. Most critics have agreed that true antiwar films are virtually impossible to achieve. Many films which have been defined as anti-war films actually end up justifying or even glorifying the idea of warfare. In the early 1960s, ... claimed that the first criteria of an anti-war film is that it "not do positive harm by predisposing its audience toward war". ... most so-called anti-war films fail in meeting this criteria because they tend to glorify violence rather than condemn it. ... points out that "the images of senseless violence, horror, and waste that are usually employed in the commercially successful 'anti-war' films without doubt have a pornographic effect and remain in the soul as excitants and further incitements" . Such anti-war films do not ... "

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