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Analyzing the ways US culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, this book argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and 'American culture.'

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1 Camera Images and National Meanings
2 The Wall and the Screen Memory:
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
3 Reenactment and the Making of History:
The Vietnam War as Docudrama
4 Spectacles of Memory and Amnesia:
Remembering the Persian Gulf War
5 AIDS and the Politics of Representation
6 Conversations with the Dead:
Bearing Witness in the AIDS Memorial Quilt
7 Bodies of Commemoration:
The Immune System and HIV

Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Tangled Memories

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 28 February 1997
      ISBN-13 9780520206205
      978-0520206205
      ISBN-10 0520206207
      Also in:
      Cultural studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Analyzing the ways US culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, this book argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and 'American culture.'

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments

      Introduction
      1 Camera Images and National Meanings
      2 The Wall and the Screen Memory:
      The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
      3 Reenactment and the Making of History:
      The Vietnam War as Docudrama
      4 Spectacles of Memory and Amnesia:
      Remembering the Persian Gulf War
      5 AIDS and the Politics of Representation
      6 Conversations with the Dead:
      Bearing Witness in the AIDS Memorial Quilt
      7 Bodies of Commemoration:
      The Immune System and HIV

      Afterword
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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