Documentales propagandísticos de Estados Unidos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y en la Guerra de Vietnam

• Autores: Claudia Springer
• Localización: Archivos de la filmoteca: revista de estudios históricos sobre la imagen, ISSN 0214-6606, Nº 55, 2007 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Representaciones de la guerra; Experiencias extremas), págs. 80-97
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Military Propaganda. Defense Department Films from World War II and Vietnam
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  • This article analyses how the official propaganda of the army had to take the representative rules of World War II and adapt them to suitably represent the Vietnam war; a war with completely different circumstances. The old dramatic, Hollywood, Manichaean confrontation that reaped great rewards during World War II was substituted by a new model with a pseudo-scientific and ethnographic vocation. Nevertheless, the contradictions of the Vietnam War hindered the military propaganda from producing an efficient model to explain the reasons for fighting it